{"id":204,"date":"2009-01-22T09:57:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T13:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=204"},"modified":"2009-01-22T09:57:09","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T13:57:09","slug":"eating-at-home-has-other-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"eating at home has other benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not merely saving <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2009\/01\/15\/eating-at-home\/\">money<\/a>, but it&#8217;s also healthier.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been eating dominantly at home &#8211; either mine or friends&#8217; places &#8211; and have noticed that not only is each meal less expensive, but I can eat better food, too.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, those McDonald&#8217;s breakfast burritos are awesome. They&#8217;re also 300 calories a pop &#8211; and two come in the value meal, along with a hashbrown (another awesome-tasting item) which packs another 150 calories.<\/p>\n<p>750 calories to start the day wouldn&#8217;t be so bad &#8211; if I had a job which involved more movement than typing.<\/p>\n<p>Compare that to 320 calories total for home-made applesauce comprising ~4 cooked-down apples. Or ~250 for a large bowl of raisin bran and skim milk.<\/p>\n<p>For dinner, I could go to Outback and order the Alice Springs Chicken (my favorite!) and spend about $20. Or I could make mashed potatoes and have a filet mignon for about $12. And a six-ounce filet only has about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livestrong.com\/thedailyplate\/nutrition-calories\/food\/generic\/filet-mignon\/\">350 calories<\/a> in it. A bunch are from fat, but nonetheless &#8211; cheaper, fewer calories, and a higher quality of meat.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not paranoid about how much I intake, but certainly eating for less money, while getting better quality, and consuming fewer calories can&#8217;t be all bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not merely saving money, but it&#8217;s also healthier. I&#8217;ve been eating dominantly at home &#8211; either mine or friends&#8217; places &#8211; and have noticed that not only is each meal less expensive, but I can eat better food, too. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, those McDonald&#8217;s breakfast burritos are awesome. They&#8217;re also 300 calories a pop &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=204\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">eating at home has other benefits<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-food"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}