Getting better at cooking has completely changed my food palate for the good, although I have simultaneously become more critical of food from restaurants and fast food establishments.
Once you get a sense for how to combine spices for specific tastes, a lot of the food you find elsewhere starts to seem bland by comparison.
Not to mention there is a burden in the cost of buying your meals out of the house every single day of the week. If it genuinely makes a person happier to spend that sort of money on restaurant food opposed to cooking at home, I can’t stand in their way. But personally speaking, I like the level of control that cooking gives me over the taste and quality of the food I eat daily. Whenever the grocery store has a good sale on pork ribs or chicken breasts, I can cook a week’s worth of food with the money I spend on a single meal at a restaurant. Being so selective and picky with my food choices has bled into other aspects of my life. I like to use cannabis vape cartridge products because of their convenience, but I will only buy them at a handful of dispensaries in my state. There are important reasons for this, and most of them are related to health concerns. Originally all of the cannabis vape cartridge products in my state utilized random distillate oil mixed with a cocktail of botanical terpenes meant to mimic or “simulate” the terpene profile of an actual cannabis strain. They tasted like food and were harsh on the lungs. Now I only buy cannabis vape cartridges if they have oil with cannabis derived terpenes, it makes a huge difference in the quality of the experience and in the health of the user.