I think eating a majority home-cooked meals changes your relationship with food as a whole. So that if you were to eat or drink something that had an imbalance of a certain ingredient or was highly processed you can taste it and it tastes much differently than if you eat a majority processed food diet. Food addiction is freakin' awful though, and it affects a lot of Americans. And once an addict, always an addict - even if in recovery =/!