Getting nicer at cooking has changed my food palate for the good, although I have become far more critical of food from restaurants & 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 acquiring your meals out of the property every single day of the week. If it makes a person happier to spend that sort of currency on restaurant food as opposed to cooking at home, I can’t stop them. But personally speaking, I prefer the level of control that cooking provides me over the taste & quality of the food I eat daily. Whenever the grocery store has a wonderful 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 completely selective & picky with my food choices has bled into other aspects of our life. I prefer to use cannabis vape cartridge products because of their convenience, but I will only get them at a handful of dispensaries in our state. There are a lot of pressing reasons for this, & most of them are related to health drawbacks. Originally all of the cannabis vape cartridge products in our state utilized random distillate oil mixed with a cocktail of botanical terpenes meant to mimic or “simulate” the terpene profile of a true cannabis strain. They tasted exactly like food & were not very easy on the lungs. Now I only buy cannabis vape cartridges if they have oil with cannabis derived terpenes, it makes an immense difference in the quality of the experience & in the health of the user also.