I love food - hell, if I didn't like it then I definitely wouldn't be wasting my time drafting my recipes and foodie thoughts. However, while the active foodie movement makes me excited, the new ethnic food trends interested and the passion of the young chefs thrilled, I still am worried.
We are a minority - we are a privileged minority who care about what we eat and where it comes from. We carry with us the traditions of all the home cooks who have served up family favourites over the years. We skip quickly out of the convenience food aisle to the fresh fruit and veg aisle or the meat aisle.
However, as I said, we are in the minority in much of the Western World. How do I know this? Look at the typical British high street - take away to the left, take away to the right, sandwiched between Iceland and Farmfoods. Even if you simply look at the supermarkets, you will find ready-made everything from baked potatoes (OMG) to pancakes to pre-chopped veggies.
I watch mothers give their children (under 5s) full-fat coke and chicken with chips for lunch or parents nip into the pizza shop to pick up what appears to be half a loaf with some cheese. It makes me want to cry.
I know we are all busy but I think we are buying into the myth that proper food takes ages to cook and good nutrition is optional. Western society is facing an obesity epidemic and we are quietly queueing to get into the local chicken shop.
The Government is preaching that we all need to move a bit more and have a few more portions of veggies a day but is that relevant? If you've never been taught to cook healthy food or if you simply don't believe you have the time, are you going to hear the messages?
Perhaps we need to focus on teaching people how to cook healthy food rather than telling them they should?
Just a thought
L xx
Follow me on twitter @alittleofwhatyou
I watch mothers give their children (under 5s) full-fat coke and chicken with chips for lunch or parents nip into the pizza shop to pick up what appears to be half a loaf with some cheese. It makes me want to cry.
I know we are all busy but I think we are buying into the myth that proper food takes ages to cook and good nutrition is optional. Western society is facing an obesity epidemic and we are quietly queueing to get into the local chicken shop.
The Government is preaching that we all need to move a bit more and have a few more portions of veggies a day but is that relevant? If you've never been taught to cook healthy food or if you simply don't believe you have the time, are you going to hear the messages?
Perhaps we need to focus on teaching people how to cook healthy food rather than telling them they should?
Just a thought
L xx
Follow me on twitter @alittleofwhatyou
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