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I think one of the big problems is a lot of people don't know how to cook let alone cook healthy.... A good meal is not necessarily expensive. Subsidies or no subsidies they are still going to buy junk.
Anyone that can read can cook. Most people have a computer and internet. Recipes all over the net. People choose not to cook.
Anyone that can read can cook. Most people have a computer and internet. Recipes all over the net. People choose not to cook.
I'd agree somewhat but It's just like anything else, the more you do it the better you are at it. I don't follow recipes becsue I don't have too but I've been cooking since I was a kid. Too many kids brought up on boiled hot dogs and mac and cheese. I might occasionally look something up to get an idea of ingredients. It's just like today, I had some zucchini and not a lot of time. Sliced them up, threw them in bowl. Little bit of olive oil, salt, pepper and some bread crumbs. Mixed it and threw them on a cookie sheet. 15 minutes later... done and they were great.
Last edited by thecoalman; 07-10-2013 at 10:26 PM..
I'd agree somewhat but It's just like anything else, the more you do it the better you are at it. I don't follow recipes becsue I don't have too but I've been cooking since I was a kid. Too many kids brought up on boiled hot dogs and mac and cheese. I might occasionally look something up to get an idea of ingredients. It's just like today, I had some zuchinni and not a lot of time. Sliced them up, thought them in bowl. Little bit of olive oil, salt, pepper and some bread crumbs. Mixed it and through it on cookie sheet. 15 minutes later... done and they were great.
I learned how to cook when I was a kid also and never followed a recipe except for baking. I use to drive my mother-in-law crazy because she would ask how I made something and I would say a little of this, a pinch of this. I never measured.
I think that many people are brought up on fast food and all the processed food because it is faster.
Meat itself is not unhealthy. If all you eat is bologna and hot dogs, you're making the wrong choices. The problem is that fat was vilified for decades as the reason we're obese, so the diet industry started replacing fat in foods with sugar and marketing it as 'light', even though the added sugar was worse than the fat they removed.
The government promoted the food pyramid that suggested breads, pasta and grains be half of our diets. When combined with all of the sugar in our diets (and added sugars from things like sauces, salad dressings, and low-fat/high-sugar 'diet' food, soft drinks, etc.) it spurred our rapid rise in obesity. Someone eating a breakfast of cereal, a muffin and fruit juice looks at the person eating bacon and eggs thinking "they're killing themselves." We were convinced that unnatural, trans-fat laden margarine was a healthier choice than natural butter.
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