[neogodless]

We are budget conscious but this is what our spending naturally settles into just going to to the store and getting the ingredients we need for the meals and snacks we want. Meat several times a week, lots of fruit and vegetables, some pasta and wraps and breads. We don't feel deprived or unhealthy, and it fits well within our means.

[TameAntelope]

Yeah, I guess the main difference for us is cooking/preparing our own meals is genuinely foreign for us. My wife does try to learn, but for me I prefer to do nearly anything to cooking. At best it's a novelty, I've never looked at ingredients and thought practically about how I can make them pleasurably ingestible.

It's more expensive, but I see the cost as a price to free up my time/energy for other things I find more interesting.

To each their own!