Healthy eating - NO TIME!!
04 Jun 2007
I think you need to look at your lifestyle, you surely do not work seven days a week. All healthy eating requires is some planning, then Sainsbury can deliver it to your door. Fresh fruit and veg to ensure you get your 5-a-day, some lean easily cooked cuts of meat, a choice of 2 or three heathy breakfast cereals, bread and sandwich fillers including salad ingredients ( much healthier and low calorie compared to bought sandwiches) all available from sainsburys. A dish of home cooked spicy chicken stuffed into pittas with loads of raw salad and veg can be ready in 20 - 30 mins. If you are starving when you get in from work snack on the veg as you prepare it.
Remember ready prepared veg and salads are losing the nutrient values at the speed of light once they have been peeled and cut. I do not think children will learn much from cooking like this, they need to see whole veg, raw meat and fruit to get the idea that there is a multiude of ways to prepare basic food ingredients to enhance any recipe.
My children learnt to cook their favorite foods first, cakes, dessert, sweets and bread, then helping me prepare meals in the evening and at weekends. I was a full tme nurse then so this was my quality time with my children.
It is an abundance of `heat in the micro` `boil in the bag` meals that have changed how people eat, we really do need to get back to basics as unfortuately good health does not come ready prepared.
