Are We Fooling Ourselves? – A Rant
June 3, 2009 at 12:21 pm 1 comment
It is always nice when we see something we have been saying for quite a while published in the New York Times. Amanda Hesser, a contributing writer for The Times magazine, had a post on Sunday, May 31 in the Times (The Commander In Chef) that advocates cooking our meals at home rather than eating out. She goes a little further in that she quotes some statistics about the times per year a typical family goes out to eat, 125 times a year in 2008. Well I think the current economy has put a stop to most of that. The other interesting fact is that we are a society that uses pre-prepared food when cooking; thinking we are saving both time and money.
We really didn’t have a chance… major food manufacturers told us how easy it was to bake cookies; just buy the pre-made, cut into pieces and bake for 8 minutes. Want a cake, no problem, open the box, add water and maybe an egg, stir, bake and decorate with icing that comes out of a container found on the store shelf. Whole meals just waiting for us to select them and pop into the oven, yum, yum! Want to know why the kids are getting a little chubby? Take a look at the ingredients panel on those easy meals your are purchasing.
Look, the main purpose of all my efforts is to get you back at the family table, enjoying a meal with your family. If you think you are saving time or money by using pre-prepared foods you are kidding yourself. So if it costs you more and you really aren’t saving any real time why not go all out occasionally and make something from scratch. You’ll be surprised at the reaction you will get.
Entry filed under: Rants, Semi-Rants and Non-Rants. Tags: cooking, cooking from scratch, home cooking.
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Colin Wiebe | June 5, 2009 at 5:01 am
Very interesting post! I admire your aim and I’m precisely looking forward for more post from you.