If you are interested in eating a healthy diet and if you are reading newspapers and magazine articles and watching TV you’ve heard that home cooked food is healthier, less fattening and provides the added benefit of a time for members of the household to sit down together to eat and to catch up with one another.
But there’s a problem with this approach. Over the past 30 years or so the number of two career couples has risen dramatically. This means that both are at their workplace for a typical 8 hour day plus time to get to work and get back home. Energy is low, time is short, and then there’s the big problem: lots of people of all education levels, incomes high and low, family backgrounds of all types, have never learned to cook.
We’re not talking gourmet fare here, just a protein dish, some vegetables, a starch or a salad. Oh, and preferably they all are ready to eat at the same time. Seems simple enough, but maybe it isn’t.
Many of us have never learned to cook. My mother wanted no one else in her kitchen. I had to figure it out on my own. Many of us went from home to school to work and living away from home and just never took the time to learn. Fast food was cheap and easy. Many went to work in their teens and kept on working. Learning to cook just didn’t happen.
Certainly anyone can learn to cook a basic meal. Stores give recipes away, the Internet has an endless supply of recipes, classes are available at lots of places. Experience and confidence help a lot and those come with repeating the effort to make a meal.
If you are committed to eating healthier, you pretty much have got to learn to cook. What time is dinner?
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