We’re in an obesity epidemic and most people don’t know how to cook even very basic meals.
Make space for it, squish other classes if you need. Make it mandatory, everyone has to take it. Maybe even ongoing through multiple grades.
Edit: Rice, beans, and even basic meats are cheap. To eat healthy you don’t need your meal to be 100% Bell peppers and tomatoes.
It would certainly change the math somewhat. Lots of stroganoff recipes do call for steak though.
We also need to look at the price per meal though. I’m going to get more meals out of home made than from the box.
Don’t get me wrong, I cook from scratch consistently. I am on a cardiac diet, low fat no added salt, and these boxes “meals” have upward of 70% your daily intake of sodium in one serving. Not to mention the additional sugar they seem to think a meal needs when it doesn’t need any.
Another thing, you can’t get away with chicken as the meat in a lot of meals. For example tonight we are having Philly steak sandwiches, can’t use chicken for a proper philly
Well, that’s because a proper Philly doesn’t use chicken.
You did bring up another excellent point though, your home made food is likely to be healthier.
By far. I made pizza last night, I even make my crust from scratch. The only ingredients I didn’t make from scratch was the sauce and cheese. The rest of the ingredients were organically sourced
Sauce is pretty easy. Can of Tomato sauce, some tomato paste, assorted spices, maybe some sugar
Biggest thing is using it up fast enough.
That is one thing I’m still working on, how much is too much and how much isn’t. Also the pizza I make is bacon, tomato and spinach with an Alfredo sauce using low moisture mozzarella cheese
How much sauce goes on the pizza? I know with tomato you want to spread it out real thin, just enough to coat the dough. It usually comes out to 2 soup spoonfuls of sauce for me. I’d imagine it’s similar for an Alfredo sauce.
Something my spouse really loves is when the pizza is cooked in cast iron pan. It makes for a great crust, cause it’s fried.
I use about 2 coking spoons worth of sauce. Technically I do a lot of my cooking by eyeballing the amount of sauce or seasonings. with two 15-16 inch pizzas i use about half a small jar of alfredo sauce in total. (approximately 3 oz total between the two)