People do not know how much they miss when they do not cook at home. First, during a hard economy like we are having right now, one can save a lot of money preparing foods at home. Just think, a restaurant would charge you $5.00 for a bowl of "Polenta", you can make a bowl of "Grits" for less than 25c, same ingredients. We consider ourselves very fortunate to have time to prepare our meals everyday. When we craved for something, we made it. We saw something good on the food shows on TV, we made it. We eat 4 stars, 5 stars restaurant foods just about everyday at the fraction of the costs. Secondly, cooking at home put one in total control of what he/she would consume, in quality as well as quantity. When you ate out in a restaurant, if you noticed, they always gave you a bigger portion than you could or wanted to eat. It was not because they were nice to you, but because they forced you to buy more than you really intended. Unless you paid an arm and a leg at a high price "upscale" restaurant, most of the foods you ate usually came out of different cans that were mixed together at the premise.
We have been baking breads at home for a while now. Besides the costs saving factor, the smell and the taste of a loaf of freshly baked bread was truly the smell of heaven. We also started to grow our own herbs and vegetable indoor, thanks to the Aerogarden system. We eat a lot of different kinds of herbs as salad and they are hard to find at local grocery store. Now we have them.
All in all, we really have a kick out of making foods at home. We let our creativity run wild, we have fun, and best of all, we can really enjoy our craft to the heart,
