Cooking your own food does something else. You will find that what you cook TASTES BETTER once you get rid of the great load of artificial or highly processed stuff that gets added to processed foods. I grew up in a “raise it, cook it” family and my dad was a great soup maker. When I went off to college and had my first bowl of soup, I almost spat it out! The taste was of salty plastic! When I tasted chickens other than our own, what I got was watery and flabby. Even my pets weren’t interested. But when I brought home a pheasant, or a free-range organic chicken, they’d mob me in the kitchen. There are also health benefits other than elimination of trans-fats and sugars: lower salt is an obvious one (I use virtually none).
Cooking your own food does something else. You will find that what you cook TASTES BETTER once you get rid of the great load of artificial or highly processed stuff that gets added to processed foods. I grew up in a “raise it, cook it” family and my dad was a great soup maker. When I went off to college and had my first bowl of soup, I almost spat it out! The taste was of salty plastic! When I tasted chickens other than our own, what I got was watery and flabby. Even my pets weren’t interested. But when I brought home a pheasant, or a free-range organic chicken, they’d mob me in the kitchen. There are also health benefits other than elimination of trans-fats and sugars: lower salt is an obvious one (I use virtually none).
Comment by Laura — September 10, 2010 @ 7:46 am