Well, I'm fat and cook most of my food from scratch. If I'm making fish pie, I make the pie: buy the fish (obviously) and then make my own mash, make a cheese sauce, add in the veg etc etc. If I want to have a cake, I make my own cake, not from a box or a mix, but from scratch. You know what I mean, actually weighing out the ingredients and mixing together.
People say that cooking is a dying art and that is one of the reasons we as a nation are so obese. Well, my mum cooked everything from scratch and taught me and my bro and sis how to cook. Grandma also taught us how to cook. I have the best memories of going round to my grandma's house when I was little and her showing me how to make fresh bread and biscuits and pies, pastry and all. No preservatives and additives. I love cooking. Maybe that is my problem I love it too much. If I make a cake, I have to eat it. But surely a homemade cake is better for you than one from the supermarket!?
My kids are still very young, but even my 3 year old little boy, loves nothing more than helping me in the kitchen getting dinner ready. Very rarely do I give them Fish fingers. My kids eat a piece of white fish poached in milk with real mash and real veg, and my 6yr old daughter knows how to make it. Yet I am obese...and this is the food I was taught to make as a youngster...Is cooking from scratch dying out - I hope not, obese or not, I love it.
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People say that cooking is a dying art and that is one of the reasons we as a nation are so obese. Well, my mum cooked everything from scratch and taught me and my bro and sis how to cook. Grandma also taught us how to cook. I have the best memories of going round to my grandma's house when I was little and her showing me how to make fresh bread and biscuits and pies, pastry and all. No preservatives and additives. I love cooking. Maybe that is my problem I love it too much. If I make a cake, I have to eat it. But surely a homemade cake is better for you than one from the supermarket!?
My kids are still very young, but even my 3 year old little boy, loves nothing more than helping me in the kitchen getting dinner ready. Very rarely do I give them Fish fingers. My kids eat a piece of white fish poached in milk with real mash and real veg, and my 6yr old daughter knows how to make it. Yet I am obese...and this is the food I was taught to make as a youngster...Is cooking from scratch dying out - I hope not, obese or not, I love it.
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