At Central Market in Plano, Texas, a recent cooking class was a beginner's course on beef.
"Sometimes I cook where it's raw. Other times it's burnt, so I am trying to figure out that perfect temperature," said student Cindy Townsend.
Until recently, she and most of the other students say they ate many of their meals in restaurants.
"We were spending way too much money going out to eat all the time, and I wanted to be able to cook more things so we could stay at home," said student Autumn Beam.
According to one survey, almost half of all Americans are eating out less often than they did six months ago.
"When you are buying food in a grocery store, you save up to half. You can buy less expensive cuts of meat and let them stretch much longer," Liesen said.
Beam is hoping to stretch her dollars and her newfound cooking skills through July when her husband returns from a yearlong deployment in Iraq.
Beam said, "He'll be coming home to some great home cooked meals."
And by cooking at home, those meals will be prepared at perhaps half the restaurant price.
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