We all know that home cooking is a healthier options yet with parents under stress from longer working hours, the humble home cooked meal is becoming an extinct animal.

With people renovating there kitchens every 5 years, buying all the latest kitchen gadgets and watching restaurant TV and cooking shows, we spend more time contemplating than doing. The consumption of take away food is growing substantially every year.

With Australia’s obesity levels at epidemic levels, are we contributing to the problem by placing our reliance on fatty, sugary low nutritional value takeaway as a cheap and fast alternative?
It disturbing to see an advertisement about giving mum/dad a break from cooking by getting a “Family Dinner Box” from McDonalds.
Geez, getting a bunch of burgers and fries must be better for the family nutritionally than steamed vegies, brown rice and grilled chicken. Mmmm, I don’t know about that, there website saying “spend less time in the kitchen and more time with the family”, well nice premise but what is actually happening, kids glued to there computer screen or mobile, parents watching TV or cable or just chilling out after a stressful day at the office, worrying about being able to meet the next mortgage payment.

So promoting the consumption of energy dense, fatty food the only way to free up the parents time in the evening?

Secondly how much time is actually involved in cooking a healthy meal, try cooking something special, why not get the kids involved in the process of cooking and cleaning up.

It’s scary that McDonalds promotes the process of cooking a home meal negatively with there website showing words associated with cooking such as “Cook, clean up, wash dishes, rush, prepare, scrub, burn”, well if people were so concerned about the preparation and cleaning process why are home coffee expresso machines so popular, you could use the same words as mentioned above when making a coffee yet it doesn’t stop people from preparing there own home cappuccino.

The modern supermarket is full of “just add water”, “ready in 5 minutes, just place in microwave”

This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 7th, 2010 at 5:26 pm by Andrew Talati and is filed under Nutrition.

Tags: Healthy eating, Healthy Food, Nutrition

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