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Agree.  People have been cooking whole and simple foods for centuries.  It’s only in recent decades that everyone suddenly became too busy to make themselves a meal, therefore they must get take out and buy microwave food.  In reality, people waste time all day on their phones, computers, waiting in drive thrus, placing takeout orders and we have more conveniences than ever in our lives in just about every way [/quote]

Funny, I remember my Depression-era grandmothers talking about cooking whole and simple foods for their families before everyone got so busy, and they described it as endless, backbreaking drudgery.

When the convenience-food era began, they grabbed those Libby's cans and Birdseye bags with both hands and were able to pursue their other interests while putting years back on their lives. I know, I know, addictive additives are killing us now, but let's not pretend pre-industrial cooking was some kind of fulfilling Modern Farmhouse idyll.

Looking forward to my "False." response![/quote]

Lol, right?  I do a lot of from scratch cooking — how I was raised — and I agree with the Indian PP.  It’s time consuming and requires attention, planning, and practice to make it taste good, be healthy, and have enough variety to satisfy everyone.  I happen to enjoy cooking so that works out well for us but I don’t go around trying to tell others they’re lazy or something because they buy convenience food.  Most (helpful) people on this thread are looking for ways to screen for highly processed food and reset our cooking habits to use less of it.  Declaring “It’s easy; everyone did it 50 years ago” isn’t kind and doesn’t answer the question.  And frankly, my grandmother’s idea of a healthy meal isn’t necessarily mine.

Also: Take-out isn’t usually a highly processed food.  Canned tomatoes with additives (and that’s most of them; I was trying to find some with only salt/citric acid as preservatives last week and it was like 2 types out of 50) are.  So is my favourite convenience food I’m reluctantly giving up on: pre-shredded cheese. [/quote]

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