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Eat Out at Home With Copycat Recipes

2nd February, 2010 - Posted by health news - No Comments

Everybody has favorite meals and favorite restaurants that they like to eat at. Dining out 3 or more times a week at restaurants can be very costly, particularly if you’re feeding more than one. As good as it is to eat out on occasions, nothing beats being able to cook at home.

A super way to impress family and friends is to prepare restaurants recipes in your kitchen. Everyone can enjoy their favorite entrees anytime they want at home without going out. There are different sources of good copycat restaurant recipes on the web. Generally they are put into downloadable ebooks and may have a range of recipes from various sources and restaurant chains. One of the aggrevating things is that ebooks can not be updated and are often times outdated or incomplete. Popular copycat restaurant recipes from well known chains in America that you should expect to find are: Applebee’s, Chili’s, McDonalds, KFC, Boston Market, Hard Rock Café, Joe’s Crab Shack, Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Outback Steakhouse and many more.

Many sites are offering what are called copycat recipes, which are reverse engineered recipes with a bunch of research from well-known authors and chefs. This allows recipes of previously secret dishes to be engineered and recreated for you to use and enjoy in your home. Some of the common copycat restaurant recipes are really very close in taste to the original restaurant dishes. So close, in fact, that you’d not be able to tell the difference between the one you cooked and the one from the restaurant!

So what does this all mean? It’s a simple solution to help your budget, if you can get the copycat recipe you want, you can easily prepare these yummy dishes at home that taste as good as your favorite restaurant dishes and really save money. Just to give a quick example, and these are very conservative estimates, if you eat out just twice a week and the total of each meal averages around $45, that equals $360 per month. Don’t forget, that this doesn’t even factor in the fuel expense to drive to your favorite places. Most people probably spend much more than that each month eating out. Do you see the amount of money you can save by cooking these meals at home?