The top two reasons people give me for choosing fast food and take-out over cooking their own healthy foods...
“I don’t have the time to prepare a healthy meal”
“It’s too expensive to eat healthy”
I’ve been preaching over and over how cost-effective home cooking is. Visit my recipe blog for healthy cheap recipes. And as a busy working mom, I know for a fact you can create healthy meals in short time. But today, I decided to put some (pseudo)scientific data behind my theories.
In order to test my theory that you can put together a healthy meal faster and cheaper than fast food and take-out, I will spend the next few months documenting my own experiences with convenience foods vs home cooked meals. Read on.
Day One: Lunch, Friday at 1:50 pm (slow time, only 3 cars in line)
Restaurant: Burger King drive thru
Data:
Enter Drive Thru: 1:50
Leave Drive Thru: 1:54
Finally get out of shopping center parking lot and back on the road: 1:58
Cost of “value meal” (burger, fries, and water): 5:49
Results:
Time it took to get my fast food: 8 minutes
Cost it took to buy my fast food: 5:49
Conclusion:
I can do better than that!
In less than 5 minutes, I can make a peanut butter and jelly sandwhich, put it into a sandwhich bag, add an apple and a slice of cheese for a super healthy meal for just $1.15.
Stay tuned for the next experiment, more results to follow
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