Do you prefer home-cooked food or outside food?

I almost always prefer home cooked meals. I get tired of fast food, and restaurants are expensive and sometimes not that good. I love a good home cooked meal. Especially a healthy one that I don't feel the least but guilty about eating. I do generally like going out for Mexican food more than homemade Mexican food. We have so many awesome Mexican restaurants around us, so that is probably why.

Well, I am not as fortunate as you do. I live on campus. All I can choose is those food offered by out canteen. Sometimes I do miss mom's home-cooked food. And those food in the canteen is not that good compared to my mom's. Besides, we don't have many choices. Thus I go out from time to time to enjoy something else.

I prefer home cooked food. For us, eating out is more of a treat and not something we regularly do. Plus eating out alot gets expensive. I always make sure we have some meals we can cook quickly (like a pizza) for the nights when we get home late from work and don't feel like cooking.

I do like to treat myself once in a while as we have so many restaurants where I live that cook food from so many different parts of the world, Thai being my favourite. However, I love home cooked food, even though it is always down to me if it gets cooked. As I am not a meat eater I love simple veg dishes, there are so many to choose from so I never get bored.

Well in my case I don't have enough money to get used to the outside food so I am sentenced to a home-cooked one. Although I have never eaten better food than the one prepared at home. In my family there are 4 women in the house, my mother, my sister, my grandma and me and each one of us makes different food so I never get bored by eating the same food all the time. My dad is pretty good in preparing the fish and barbeque so I have never lacked of anything. Sometimes I wish I could just go to the restorant spend some 20 euros on a meal and don't look back, but I know that I would look back so I don't do that.

You kidding? For me, there's nothing better than a home cooked meal... I'd eat a home cooked meal everyday if I could... It's nice once in a while to eat out & there are some corner places, mom & pop type places, that will service up a home cooked style food but I always crave home cooked meal... I know some dishes have same stuff in it but I don't know why, it just tastes better when cooked at home... I guess either you or someone you love put time, effort & love into preparing a meal, that's where it makes a difference, I think... My girl-friend makes best spaghetti I've ever had... Noodles, tomato sauce & meat, doesn't get simpler than that but something about the way she makes it, never had it better...

in my homa... but sometime i prefer out....exempole for pizza...... bye myryam

I'd love to eat in more, but as my MS progresses, I tend to forget little steps of preparing my meals and resort to packaged food (not nearly as good or inexpensive). It ends up costing me a lot more money too--something I really can't afford. I tend to go in cycles--I get a hankering for a specific food and I just want to eat that dish for a while.

Hi lordwarwizard, let me tell you honestly....when I was in India, I just loved eating outside, because food that we get in restaurants and hotels or even snacks that are made be hawkers are so tasty and no matter how much you try to make it at home you just cannot make them as tasty as they make it. Since I am very much found of eating spicy food, I would love to eat outside. No I live in Israel, here we don't find that Indian touch at all. I prefer making food at home and I enjoy only what I cook...food in hotels and restaurants are not worth enjoying. Here we have some Indian restaurants but they cannot make food as tasty as in India because of difference of soil. so now I have become a good girl. I cook home food and me and my family quietly enjoy it..........

Hi dear i also like to eat home cooked food or in office cafeteria(Lunch). We have proper cafeteria with good cooks and best standard of kitchen and food is good. I dibne out but its rarely and specially when i have guessts. Or when we are in mood to eat KFC, Mc Donald or Pizza Hut. I do agree with u that grass at other side is always green Take care

I prefer home-cooked food, as it is healthier and often tastes much better than restaurant food or fast food!

I lived for 5 years in a hostel where I would crave for home cooked meals. Now I eat only home cooked food but once a month I do go out for a meal. But I dont like it more often than that. If the children insist of having something from out I see if I can combine it with something made at home!

'Home Cooked food for a change and outside food for a change' pretty sums up my philosophy.The preference though tilts towards Home Cooked food for the taste,the ambience(no need for designer chairs and tables and people ready to serve you and bring your fingerbowl).Somehow when I have a Home cooked meal I strongly feel that it gives Food the due respect it deserves-there is a certain humility when you have it as compared to the pleasure seeking attitude when you eat outside food.

i love going out and also love eating out...there is so much of choice and no need to sweat in the kitchen...since my hubby is out the whole day he loves home made food...love to relax in light clothing and have his dinner so we have deal we eat out twice or maybe thrice a week and rest i cook for him anything he likes...

I wouldn't mind home cooked meals if someone else was cooking them. I don't have the time or motivation to cook, especially on nights like tonight when one kid has a school soccer practice after school and then a rep soccer game at 7pm (has to be there at 6:30 and it's a half hour drive), and another kid has Taekwondo at 7, and I'm not sure whether DH is getting off work at 5pm or 7pm. What the heck is the point of making a meal on a night like that? I spend all day trying to decide what to cook. Most of the time 5:00 rolls around and I'm scrambling to come up with something because I couldn't decide. I don't plan in advance for meals. I get frustrated because I will cook a meal and then activities will throw a wrench into the works and I find myself eating alone a meal I wouldn't make for myself (and probably shouldn't be eating for health reasons). An example is when my husband doesn't arrive home from golfing at the appointed time, or I forget that DD 15 has Taekwondo (which I did for tonight until just a few minutes ago). I don't really care for eating out. It takes too much time to dine in and I wouldn't want to be eating fast food all the time. What I really, really, really want is someone to cook dinners in my home every night. That would be ideal. Someone who is a good cook, by the way. I am not adverse to grabbing a sandwich wrap at the grocery store (as opposed to a burger at McDonald's). It's healthier but eating out can cost a lot of money. Mealtimes really are a bone of contention around here with my illness, whether I have the energy to cook, whether anyone is going to be here. I hate it when I go to all the trouble to cook a nice meal and then we're not sitting down together to eat because everyone has different schedules. I don't need supper; I'm supposed to eat 6 small meals a day. The others are content with a bowl of cereal but then one kid will end out having 3 bowls of cereal a day. That's a lot of cereal we go through. Now I understand what my mother was going through when she said to me (when I was a teenager) that she couldn't come up with meal ideas every night.

i'm a rather craving-driven person. i usually go for what i feel like eating. i'd say i'm very lucky coz i am living in a country where you can find cuisine of almost any kind. so i pretty much eat outside everyday as i can have affordable thai food today, japanese tomorrow and indian food the day after. however, there are certain dishes that i couldn't find any better than my own cooking. so when i crave for these dishes i'd cook myself. my mum doesn't really cook nowadays as she is getting on in age.

Sigh.. I eat out everyday. I used to live near my grandmother and I got to eat home-cooked food everyday. Ever since I moved house, I only get to eat home-cooked food once a week when I visit my grandmother. Now that she is in hospital, I eat outside food everyday. I very much prefer home-cooked food. I felt this way when I was young and still feel this way now.

I really think that it comes down to my mood I love to cook and experience a home cooked meal but I also love to go out and be waited on if possible so that I can have a relaxing night. LOL!!!!

I always prefer home-cooked food not only because it is served hot but also, I am sure that it is clean. I dine out too but not that often. I had amoebiasis and gastroenteritis so I try to refrain from eating outside and would prefer using disposable utensils than those that are washed and I am not even sure if they are washed properly.

I prefer both if they have all the nutrients.