Given that most restaurants employ a lot of legal/illegal mexicans to cook food in grease for overpriced low quality, and tha I actually enjoy fresh organic food and need to cut costs, I have been cooking meals 99% of the time.
Example:
A nice 4 egg breakfast omelet and bagel with latte can run between $8-15 in a breakfast place.
Cost to make a fresh omelet with good latte home made:
$2 so a savings of at least 6 bucks a day!
Not to mention it takes me a whole 3 minutes to cook the omelet and make the latte in my espresso machine. Less time than waiting half hour in line at local Starbucks!
I need to save for living til the next job comes along and also for future home when prices actually come down to earth here in sandy eggo.