i have to write a paper comparing fast food and home cooked food?

Question

i have to write this paper with this outline, and i dont even know how i would compare and contrast fast food and home cooked meals this many times, plllzzzzzzzzzz help me
a. introduction
b. comparison
c. contrast
d. comparison
e. contrast
f. comparison
g. contrast
h. conclusion

Answer 1

Well, there are many things you can compare and contrast when it comes to fast food vs. home-cooked meals. Such things are convenience, nutrition, cost, portion control, emotional impact, etc. In a way, you can take a scientific course of action. Your intro is just that, an introduction. Briefly explain what you're comparing and contrasting and what the reader could learn or what opinions the reader might form. Choose the three characteristics that most closely fit in with the idea you're trying to convey. In your conclusion, sum up what you've presented by giving your final analysis referring to the reason why you present that particular answer to the question at hand.

Answer 2

That is a tough question. You know the introduction because you just explained what it is that you are doing...try to go into more detail.
People always say that fast food is worse for you than home cooked meals, but it actually depends on how the home cooking is done. If whoever cooks is health conscious and prepares veggies and watches the amount of fat and grease and so forth that they use while preparing the meal. Then yes, home cooking would be better. You could use that as a comparison. Or, if the person that cooks is the old fashioned type that uses a ton of butter, grease, makes a lot of fried food, etc...there really isn't that much difference with the health issue.
A contrast that you could use would be money. When you go to the grocery store and buy food to make at home for a week, you will spend a lot less than if you eat fast food instead.
The conclusion would be that it is dependent on the cook (health reasons), but the money saved by cooking at home is definitely a good answer.
Use your imagination...think it through and write a great paper!

Good Luck,
Diane

Answer 3

Hi - what a nasty piece of homework - or how interesting ! (depending on your point of view).

Fast food is designed to be:

a) cheap to buy (so the ingredients are mass produced and diluted with elements that keep the cost down),
b) fast to cook by staff that aren't that skilled and
c) consistent/predictable to serve - so customers know what they are getting.

Home cooked food is less processed with fewer additives and takes more cooking-time (unless you are cooking a burger with a pre-made patty).

Typically you are going to have to clean, prepare the ingredients, cook them slowly, taking into account the relative cooking times of each elements and then combine them at the end into a dish that is attractive to eat.

There are a number of elements that you can compare and contrast between the two approaches -

1) Quality and purity of the ingredients
2) Time to cook the meal
3) Cost of the meal
4) How healthy the meal is (e.g. amount of fat, salt and other important dietary elements present)
5) Cost to the environment of supplying the fast food industry with the ingredients compared to people buying or growing their own ingredients and cooking for themselves.
6) How a home cooked meal that the whole family sits down and eats brings the family together as a unit, whereas fast food is eaten on the run and does not help the family bond develop
7) How having both parents work means there is less time for cooking and as a result, greater emphasis on buying pre-prepared food. A symptom of the change in society brought on by commercialism, rising cost of living etc etc.

Apologies if I have strayed off topic at the end - I just thought it might be interesting to try and understand why fast food has become so important to so many people.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Well, home cooked meals most are not made out of processed food like Fast Food. Home cooking you get to experiment with spices and varity of different food. It is like being an artist. ---- Fast Food is like it's just there. It is filled with grease that can kill you. To compare take like a Hamburger from McDonalds and compare it to a Homemade Hamburger and see if there any difference. Also you could do some home cooking your self just make sure you don't burn down the house and compare it to the fast food.

Answer 6

I will help you cheat a little. Feel free to use these exact words.
a) It would seem that in today's society fast food is not only becoming a primary source of nourishment but, also a quick way to eat without the hassle of cooking food for yourself and or your family. However there are benefits to making a home cooked meal that far outweigh the use of fast food.
b) Fast food is convenient, cheap, and not too time consuming.There are even healthy choices such as Subway, Chipotle, Quizno's and other organic type restaurants. Fast food restaurants also offer variety and ambiance depending on where you go. Home cooked meals can also offer variety as well as time spent with your family in a closed setting. The cook can decide how much salt to use and weather or not to fry or bake. With home cooked meals as well, variety is very open from traditional meals to more modern cuisine.
c) Fast food however can be costly if used all the time as a means of feeding a family. If certain restaurants are chosen that do not offer healthy choices variety is staggered. Pizza for example is quite good but not the most healthy if eaten on a regular basis. It can also become boring to the palate.Then you have home made pork chops that are also not healthy if eaten on a regular basis. These too can becme boring if made everyday.
d) Eating fast food periodically to save time is beneficial depending on the lifestyle of the person utilizing this method of nourishment. On the other hand if a person uses fast food(non- healthy options) as a daily source of nourishment and does not exercise this can become a serious health problem.
e)Home cooked meals are very cost effective if proper planning is used to keep meals intersting and palatable. It is often times cheaper depending on what type of meal is prepared.A bag of lettuce to make part of a meal costs about the same as a burger. Also Spaghetti a real favorite of western culture goes over very well for little to nothing.
f) If I had to choose one over the other I personally would go with home cooked meals. They are overall more nutricious, better prepared if the cook can cook, and less expensive if a feasible budget is used.
g)Fast food will eventually get old and is not the most heatlhy way to get the nourishment one needs in order eat properly.
h) In conclusion the choice has been made to stick with the traditional means of eating. Homecooked meals rule. How many times have I heard my cousin who is a graduate student exclaim about how he misses home cooked meals. Even he knows the benefits of having a home cooked meal and college did not have to teach him that.

Answer 7

make your assingment a little easier, narrow your subject down, IE: compare your fave home cooked meal to somthing similar but fast-food version. Tell how that one meal was how it was better (or worse) than the fast-food. if you don't know what she's looking for by the list, look those words up in the dictionary to see the exact definition.
I had a cool book when I was in school called "The write source" and it helped me learn how to write papers in differant forms. You might be able to google it, it might have a website or something.

Answer 8

Select several different fast food meals (Big Mac, fries and Coke; Pizza Hut pepperoni pizza and Pepsi; KFC chicken meal of your choice) , and compare each of them against a baseline home cooked meal that you make up (say, meatloaf, mashed potatoes, green beans, and tea.) Don't try to compare all of them against each other. Compare (and contrast) each of them to the baseline meal.

The big chains usually put nutrition information on their web sites. Use that as you make your choices. You can probably find nutrition information online for things likely to be cooked at home, or perhaps you can find it on the web site of a cafeteria.

Answer 9

break it down by where do you get fast food? what are the names of fast food restaurants? how does it taste, how good is it for you?compared to home cooked meals. check out the video Super Size Me and you will get it.
compare cost in each
compare calories in each
compare health related issues from each
you could talk to a nutrionist who could help.
see the video
for example what is in a hamburger at fast food compared to home cooking.
when you break it down it sounds like a snap to me. its easy when you say it is. so it is..

Answer 10

Here's the basics:

Home cooked foods are more fresh, delicious, and may not have as much fats and crap in fast foods.

Fast foods are not as fresh, may be good but at what price, and they burn a hole right through that wallet.