For years, I fell into the habit of buying ready-made potato salad in the grocery store. It was so easy. Then I started making my own from scratch, and it's so much better! I don't like to go out to eat very often because I happen to be a very good cook and I am spoiled from eating my own cooking. If I order something I could just as well make at home, I am inevitably disappointed. That may sound like I am bragging, but my husband would corroborate what I have said. So I try to order things I don't prepare myself. I don't do a good job with fish, so that's a good item to order at a restaurant.

I don't know much about BBQ, perhaps because I have never lived in the South.