LogFAQs > #955675552

"Eating out" isn't inherently more or less healthy than home cooking, so if we're talking strictly in terms of nutrition, there's really no clear answer to this question. If people aren't eating healthily enough, doing more home cooking is often a good way to address that because that gives more knowledge of what goes into the food and therefore offers greater control over their nutrition, but using eating out on its own as a metric for determining how healthy somebody's diet is isn't particularly reasonable.

In a nutshell, what/how much somebody eats is what determines how healthy their diet is, not where they eat. You can make some generalizations (fast food, by and large, is unhealthy and should not make up a significant portion of one's diet), but providing actual useful advice is going to require you to dig a lot deeper than those generalizations.

Economically speaking? Home cooking is better. Full stop. If you're trying to fixed an inflated food budget, one of the first things you should do is cut back on how often you eat out.

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