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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]The added sugars and sodium in take out foods - yes even from so-called healthy places - is doing a number on your health and kids’ health[/b]. There are a lot of healthy weight healthy appearing people in USA who have metabolic disorder and who are developing NAFLD beginning in teens and early adulthood.

Do a few hours of food prep with your kids every weekend. You’ll teach them valuable skills and you can prep ahead lunches and dinners too - so many healthy meals you can prep ahead and quickly cook or reheat when you get home from activities. Or foods that travel well and can be eaten on the fly. It’s just a matter of a little planning and a little investment of time but the payoff is huge.

If you don’t teach your kids healthy home cooking skills now, when will they learn them? Or will they join the many Americans who eat takeout nearly the majority of the time, and ultra processed foods most of the rest of the time? [/quote]

I am not a health nut but, this. I used to work in a restaurant that served extremely high quality, vegetable forward, restaurant food. It still has way more butter, sugar, and salt than anything I'd make at home. That's why it tastes so good! I mean, not the only reason, but it's one reason restaurant food is often so satisfying. Also, a lot of vegan and vegetarian places use a ton of chemicals in their food, it's a real catch-22. But it's how they get vegan food to taste as satisfying as non-vegan food. Restaurant food is something different than what you are supposed to eat every day. Even fast-casual places -- it's the same problem. Same with prepared foods at the grocery store.

You know what I'd do if I were you? Take one night in the next week and serve fried eggs on toast with an arugula salad and whatever dressing you like. See how it goes. That's my "easy dinner" when I just don't feel like cooking and you know what? I love it. It's fat, protein, carbs, greens. You can dress it up (avocado, hot sauce, cheese, roast some veggies to lay over the greens) or serve it as is. It's on the table in five minutes. You control how much salt goes in and what fat you use to fry the egg, and it's no added sugar.

Start there, see how it feels. And then you can build. If you can fry and egg and toast some bread, you can make dinner. Next week throw some pre-chopped veggies on a pan (Whole Foods will sell them ready for roasting) with olive oil, salt and pepper, and grill a couple chicken breasts on a grill pan. Here's a tip -- tenderize the chicken breasts first, before seasoning, as this will make them both cook faster and absorb the seasoning better.

Cooking does not need to be an ordeal. There are a lot of meals you can make at home with less energy than it takes to order take out. Seriously.[/quote]

?? What chemicals are in the vegan food??[/quote]

PP is being vague but:
1 Pesticides. Insecticides. Restaurants usually don't serve organic.
2. Lots of food additives that probably aren't great long-term but have not yet been found to be "bad" in the short-term: MSG, etc.[/quote]

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