Mom cook 99.5% of the time. We went out to eat on rare occasions until my brother and I were both teenagers and bottomless pits. We would go to a local Chinese food place just a 1/2 mile down the road from our house in Hawaii. We could eat our fill and not empty the kitchen at home. It was like a buck per head to feed us. Of course we were hungry in 30 minutes and ate everything in the house anyway. An active 14 year old boy is hard fill up. A 14 and a 16 year both old is impossible.
How do smoke alarms know when it is early morning to start chirping low battery?
In the hall outside of our bedroom is three smoke detectors. Well one of them is a CO detector and it is part of the alarm system so the alarm system beeps as well as the detector. One is a heat and smoke detector that is also part of the system and then the old detector that was wired to the house when it was built. Of course it has batteries as a backup. It will be a real challenge to eliminate it since a wire sticks out of the ceiling as part of the original alarm system. It was put up when the house was built and would require redoing 1/2 of the ceilings since they are connected. So I left it in place. When the CO or the monitored detector has a low battery I get an notice on my cell phone as well as hear the chirp. The old detector is just there as a belts and suspenders and backup since it is too much work to eliminate.