Research shows that there is about 35% of women who don't know how to cook. This is a crime by itself because due to the fact that so many women don't know how to cook, it has caused major obesity within their homes. When a woman doesn't know how to cook, they end of buying food almost everyday and most of the times it is some sought of fast food, junk or even an order from a restaurant. This can cause major obesity within their kids and even themselves.
I am from the Caribbean, my country is called St.Vincent and the Grenadines. In my country, over 90% of the men there wants a women who can cook and that is one of the qualities that they look for. It is in fact a turn off if a woman doesn't know how to cook. This is not only a result of culture but the fact that it was past down from generation to generation, where parents teach their children, especially their girl child to cook, and they couldn't say no, they had to learn. It was fun learning and parents made it fun to learn, so it wasn't a chore. I use to love watching my mom cook and helping her. It was so much stirring or helping her add ingredients, and it also made me feel some sought of self accomplishment, knowing that when we ate dinner, I helped cooked.
Knowing how to cook also decreases the cost of food on a monthly basis. It's a lot cheaper to buy groceries and cook rather than to buy food everyday which really costs a lot of money.
The fact that so many children are obese these days are because their parents are not taking charge in teaching their kids good and healthy eating habits. They are not teaching their kids about the right and proper foods that are best for them and their health. A lot of times children rebel on what they want to eat because that's the way their parents taught them from birth. If parents teach their kids about the correct and proper food habits from babies, it wouldn't be a huge problem on trying to get them to eat healthy and proper food when they are older.
Don't wait until the problem arises to get children to eat healthy, train them at an early stage (baby) and I'm pretty sure that would decrease your stress and headaches as time goes by. And please, if you don't know how to cook, learn, ans teach your children to cook. Cooking would help bond the relationship with you and your children, it would be something that you can really share together as a family. And you know what? It wouldn't hurt having an extra characteristic to your personality. Along with honesty and loyalty, you can now say well "I can cook."
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Hello Goldeen,
ReplyDeleteYour blog make some interesting read, I will try to read them as often as possible.
Pertaining to the topic I would say this tradition is some what making a shift due to the increase of professional women/professional moms and the fading away of stay at home moms due to these economic times and women seeking more independence, everyone have to help financially in the home. Hence there is hardly time for the woman or the man (men are very active with household chores these days) of the house to prepare lunch and sometimes after work no time or too tired to prepare dinner. This leads to lunch and dinner having to be purchased and some of the food especially in our Caribbean restaurants aren't health.
I would also like to say that technology plays it part because we can now pop a pre cooked meal in the microwave and its finish in 2 mins. Cost also plays a very big part because I find that the healthy foods cost way more, so persons who have to keep a tight budget would have to keep this in mind.
As much as I would like to see obesity, hypertension and diabetes be history, it would take a lot of sensitizion among our peoples.
Oneil O. Sprott
Putting in my 2 cents
Yes this is indeed true. Regardless of how much time is changing and people are become more professional and busy, let's not forget that family is most important after God. I think sometimes parents forget this and wonder why their children grow up the way they do but we have to make time for family. Sprott we will remember to put our family first after God right?....lol of course we will my dear.
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