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Make Valentine's Day about spending time, not money.
Do a cheap Valentine’s Day date at home instead of stressing about all the silly commercialized crap.
With Valentine’s Day around the corner, there’s no shortage of options for throwing your money down the toilet. $10 for a single rose? Great. $40 for a box of chocolates that will instantaneously engender feelings of appreciation, guilt and body issues? Wow! And what better way to show someone you love them than by squeezing into a restaurant with 30 other lovers and paying someone else to serve you the designated Valentine’s menu?
There’s a lot talk about aphrodisiac foods at this time of year, but the amorous powers of a food can be less about the food and more about its delivery.
Chocolate and tea have similar amounts of tryptophan and phenylethylamine (the chemicals in chocolate associated with creating “cravings”). Yet there’s something far sexier about popping a chocolate in your mouth or dipping fruit into a molten fondue than slurping on a mug of pekoe. Personal touches are sexy. Having someone catering to your tastes and whims is downright ambrosial.
Food:
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As corny as it sounds, the best way to celebrate with your loved one is by being yourself—well, a better version of yourself. The day will be more enjoyable if you’re relaxed, so don’t stress yourself out. If a night off cooking and kids is what you’d enjoy, head for your favourite restaurant. At end of the day, Valentine’s Day is about communion—getting together over food and loving love.
P.S. If you can swing it with your significant other, the restaurants are much emptier on the 15th of February—and roses are dirt-cheap then too.