So I recommend that you invest aggressively (based on your risk tolerance) to grow your money via appreciation investments (in real estate, these would be double digit annual returns such as flips or being a hard money lender) and once you attain the level of cash you need to be financially independent, then you invest into income producing assets (in real estate this would be buy and hold properties and long term Private Money lending).I hope this gives you some food for thought. 

Hopefully this "food for thought" will help you come to the right decision for you and your wife. 

The restaurant serves you food and beverages in good faith with the understanding that you will still be there to pay the tab after the dinner is over.

We will have food and drinks.

For instance, if you cheap out on food too much and pay for it with your health, that is unhealthy (pun not intended) frugality and is not good value.

Food for thought.  

Bad water supply, no fresh food, predatory banking, low minimum wage, militarized police, and people who live like this.

TONS of edible food gets thrown out because the government says it has to.  

Eat some gassy food before your next visit.

This is a corner quick mart (the Memphis sub forum in particular) and you are ranting about how you sometimes will shop at home foods, but really one must insist on farm-to-table.