There are enough of these wacky strategies out there that some hard-boiled cynics (for example, me) have made a habit of pointing out some of the more ludicrous examples, like relating national economic growth to average penis size, and stock market returns to an over-fit model using Butter Production in Bangladesh.
Dad does barbecue on the weekends and on the nights when Mom's away takes a pizza outof the freezer or makes boiled noodles with sliced hot dogs on top.
As a child, my friend interpreted this behavior as strange and eccentric only to read years later that all of the nutrients from the vegetables had been boiledout and were actually in the water!