Everyone should learn to cook, because it gives us a vaster knowledge of the things we cook in a daily basis, and makes us think more mindful about what we eat and consume. Cooking makes you choose better and healthier choices on what you should eat, and as well as promoting healthy thinking and eating, and making you a more organised and confident person in what you do.
You see, to the uninitiated, kitchens can be daunting and confusing places full of dangerous, sharp, and oddly shaped objects. But once you learn your way around the kitchen and start shaking a frying pan, you feel a wonderful sense of freedom. Suddenly you are able to experiment at will, or in situations where you are tight on time you know you can always conjure up something nutritious, tasty and inexpensive.
People think that to make great tasting and healthy food takes time, or costs too much. Well, it isn’t true. It does take some planning though and some experimentation too. Learning how to plan a week’s meals in advance will save you money and time as well.
If you learn to make tasty meals from scratch using whole foods, then no longer will you have to rely on ready meals and takeaways. You realise pretty quickly that good food can be just as convenient and quickly available as most of the junk food alternatives. Becoming more aware of how meals are constructed means you will pay more attention to what you eat will hopefully result in smarter, more delicious, and more healthy choices.