In areas where there are many restaurants, some people prefer to buy their meals in restaurants very

frequently, rather than cooking and eating meals at home. Other people prefer to cook most of their
meals at home and only rarely eat in a restaurant. Which one would you choose and why?

As silly as it may sound, nowadays eating has become somehow an entertainment for some
people, no matter where and how they make their foods. Due to the penchant of eating and
experiencing new tastes of food, the number of restaurants is burgeoning. Under such a
circumstance, more and more people will be tempted to buy their meals in restaurants rather
than preparing the food themselves. However, not even the most delicious food prepared in
the restaurants can tempt me not to cook myself. The reasons, including but not limited to the
following, substantiate my viewpoint.
To begin with, there is no disguising the fact that homemade meals are healthier because of the
organic ingredients used in them. To be more specific, people certainly care about their health
and they will not jeopardize their physical health by eating frequently in restaurants since they
are well aware of the fact that the ingredients used in restaurants are not of high quality. In
fact, the prevalent policy in restaurants and chains like this is that to make the food more fancy
using low quality and cheap ingredients in exchange for more profit. However, it is not the case
when the person cook for him or herself. Nowadays, people are even more concerned about
their health due to the emergence of various diseases, hence, when buying the ingredients,
they will but the best organic ones to guarantee their own health. For instance, I am completely
sure that the restaurant I sometimes buy my food from, uses spoiled meat and the owner of it
was stigmatized for jeopardizing people’s health. I would never buy cheap meat to take profit of
spending less money on the ingredients.
The next reason in line is that aside from the health issue, cooking gives people a sense of
pleasure and creativity. To put it in other words, when people are in the kitchen, they will not
mix the ingredient, they also add their love, care, and happy thought to the food they are
making. It is crystal clear that cooking is an art, the person does not cook just for the sake of
eating, but for the joy and thrill it brings with itself. What is more, in order to have delicious
food, one should be creative, to know a mixture of what can make the food tasty. On the
contrary, when people frequently buy their food from the nearby restaurants, they will just
criticize the cook, they will just eat the food without a sense of pleasure. For example, I am fond
of cooking, when I am in the kitchen, it is as though I am in a whole new world, it seems as if I
am in a laboratory trying to find an elixir by mixing different ingredient. The joy that is achieved
by cooking cannot be replaced by any other option like buying food from restaurants.
To recap, taking the above-mentioned reasons and examples into account, I am of the opinion
that preparing food is better than buying food from restaurants. Not only is it healthy to cook at
home, but it also is more pleasurable and will tap the person’s creativity. The next time you are
in the kitchen, just enjoy it.