Re:Dear American Consumers: Please don’t start eating health...
by VLM on Monday May 20, 2013 @08:50AM
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I'm a pretty good cook, and when I was a single guy, I assure you my excess of body fat came from some of my awesome home cooking rather than TV dinners. The biggest problem is everything being oriented around "family size" being 4+ but actual real world sitting at the table tonight and eating probably averages about 2 on long term average due to other committments etc. There are four members of my immediate family but tonight I eat dinner alone, and I need a individual portion size not "family size".
Re:Dear American Consumers: Please don’t start eating health...
by baggachipz on Monday May 20, 2013 @07:03AM
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You're right, because it's generational. My dad only knows how to make "Kraft Dinner" and hot dogs. I love cooking and most other males my age (30s to 40s) do as well. The advent of cooking competition tv shows and celebrity chefs has really catapulted this sentiment into mainstream society.
This is unfortunately true, as in it will take probably another 20 to 30 years for the majority of Western men to realize that they can cook, too, and that cooking is not only a "woman's job". Coming from a family where both my parents worked full-time jobs and where my dad was actually cooking tastier meals than my mum it surprised me when I grew up and saw that in other families the husband wouldn't approach the kitchen even if he would be starving to death.
Otherwise I cannot really understand why a majority of people have starting seeing cooking a healthy meal as a "waste of time". This is something so ingrained in our well-being, I'd say is almost quintessential to who we are as a species, that it baffles me when I see so many people relying only on pre-processed food that comes packaged in cardboard boxes.