The concept of the home-cooked meal seems to be disappearing. Americans spend half their household food budget on meals eaten outside the home.

However, only a small portion of those meals (about 20%) meet the nutritional guidelines set by the US Department of Agriculture.

This is according to a study by the University of Washington published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine in March 2017.

According to the study, people who ate out often were more likely to eat unhealthily, consuming more fat, alcohol and added sugar.

On the other hand, people eating at home consumed less fat, alcohol and added sugar, while eating more vegetables and fruit.

Here’s why learning to cook will benefit your health: Continue reading →

One of the major keys to eating healthily is cooking at home. It might not seem like that big a deal, but in all honesty, it is the biggest deal of them all.

Over the years, eating has become a social engagement; it’s something that we enjoy in groups and in the extreme. Yes, you can find ways to eat healthily when you’re at a restaurant, but nothing beats home-cooking, let us tell you why.

1 – Nutrition

The risk of eating out is ordering a meal that is bathed in sauce, packed with sugars, high in sodium, full of carbohydrates, and laden with fat. They also tend to be fairly low in nutrition.

Sadly, even the options that brag about being low-calorie aren’t the healthiest – they often have higher contents of fat and sugar to make up for the loss of flavor elsewhere. You don’t need to worry about any of that when you cook at home. Continue reading →