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The more I spend eating out, the less healthy I eat. When I go to the grocery store I do not purchase cookies and cheeseburgers. When I eat out, I inevitably will choose cookies with cheeseburgers.
The past few weeks have been a good time to apply some of my lessons from work to my personal life. I have been doing a little bit better job of cleaning up my Quicken data from 2008 so that I can do some analysis. Nothing too surprising. I did spend an appalling amount of money on dining out. I bought my lunch at work almost every day. That is a big factor. All that money would be fine, but I think a lot of the food that I eat out is pizza and burritos, like most people. I don't think that is very healthy.
In 2009, I am going to spend a lot more time grocery shopping and then cooking. As you can see from the graph, I could probably spend $1000 more on grocers and $2000 less on eating out and eat much better. If I am still around in 2009, I'll post an update.
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See, the reason I brought almost all of my meals to work at the big E, rather than buying food there, was not just to save money, but to also eat healthier food! Setting aside choosing to consume better types of food, you're more likely to prepare your food in a healthier way (or at least you have the control to do so...), because it's generally not in the best interest of a restaurant to make purely healthy food; rather, they want to make TASTY food. "Make it tasty and they will come."
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