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Originally Posted by Maggy J
There are people who don't know how to cook because cooking wasn't actually taught for many years.Some pale imitation called food technology took it's place from the 80s well into this century..in which children were taught about the retail and technology of making foods like bread etc.However they barely actually learn how to make a nutritional meal from scratch because they spent more time designing a food product and it's packaging than actually cooking anything..So a whole generation learned how to look at a ready prepared meal as a way of life..  |
Maggy, my children, both boys now in their mid 30's, know all about proper food and nutrition and are well able to cook a proper meal from scratch. They were encouraged by us, their parents, to help in the kitchen when they were young. Even pre-school they "helped" mix and bake cakes, saw how things were prepared for a meal, encouraged to help do all these things just as I had with my mother as a young boy. Junk food was a rare "treat" for my children maybe after a swimming session when we may have taken them to McDonalds, something I always hated but tolerated. They are both healthy, good physique and good build/weight balance.
I am of the same generation as yourself and it seems that unfortunately many parents of our generation have failed their children by indulging them instead of educating them thus creating problems for future generations. However good, or bad, the education system has been at teaching in this area ultimately parental guidance is what has failed.