For the 2nd time I bought the $7.50 Novena salad.

J4: I would say the home cooking $cost of an equivalent meal is $2-5 but some of the ingredients are unavailable at home!

At home there are almost always some temptation like wrong-time, wrong-food temptations. By paying extra to the salad shop, I “buy” a small level of protection from these temptations.

This is a dependency on salad to fend off the temptations. This dependency is a weakness I choose to accept. Counselor Bindi asked “What would you tell the 10-year old TanBin?” I would tell him that everyone is weak, so everyone appreciates and often needs protection from temptations. No one is pure and impeccable in self-restraint.