Normal people cook their own food with restaurant meals being an occasional treat.
This. I will go out to eat when I cant be bothered to make something, but that is usually once a week max, once every other week more often.
For my normal week, when I go grocery shopping, I will buy meat (usually switch it up between chicken, pork chops, or burgers), cook it on the weekend when I have plenty of free time, and then put it in the refrigerator in a container. Sometimes with extra food like potatoes that I also cooked. Then throughout the week, when I get home from work, I just get some of the meat and other sides like carrots, and that will be dinner.
Actual genuine question here, because I've heard different things about this.
Do "normal" Americans "normally" cook their own food?
I've had some people tell me it's all takeaway all the time, which I find difficult to believe, and some people tell me the opposite.
This. I will go out to eat when I cant be bothered to make something, but that is usually once a week max, once every other week more often.
For my normal week, when I go grocery shopping, I will buy meat (usually switch it up between chicken, pork chops, or burgers), cook it on the weekend when I have plenty of free time, and then put it in the refrigerator in a container. Sometimes with extra food like potatoes that I also cooked. Then throughout the week, when I get home from work, I just get some of the meat and other sides like carrots, and that will be dinner.