EATING OUT

I read a very recent survey concerning the restaurant industry. “The industry is now on track to have its best year ever in 2024, with $1.1 trillion in sales, according to the National Restaurant Association. That’s up from $864 billion in 2019, just before the pandemic. Meanwhile, the average US household spent 53% of its gastronomic budget on food outside the house—the highest proportion of all time, the WSJ reported.” (The Brew)

If 53% of our food budget is spent Eating Out, this might also explain the 42% obesity rate in the USA.  
It’s like going out to eat a Nothingburger or a Nothingtaco or a Nothingpizza. They are often very tasty, very salty, have little nutritional value, have high calorie counts and are no longer as inexpensive as they once were. But what they fix is the issue of not having to prepare a meal and the problem of ‘being hungry’ out of the way. We have learned that we get just as full and satisfied on a Nothingpizza as with a much greater priced meal. It’s not necessarily real food but it’s often real good.

I think this is often duplicated (or even preferred) that next weekend when going out to a religious gathering we are served fast food followed with Grace Pudding.

“It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.” Jesus