how comes people dont cook anymore..eveybody eats and buys frozen microwavbable food?

Answer 1

Not everybody (but I agree that far too many do). My family still cooks 5 days a week and we end up with takeout or going out 1-2 times. No prepared foods (almost never).

It's a shame because with practice, almost anybody can produce a meal that is far more healthy, less costly and better tasting than anything from the frozen foods section of a supermarket.

Answer 2

You have a lot of good answers already but I wanted to add just a little more information.

When women started working outside the home, and their time became short, they tried to fix their meals as quickly as they could so they could get the kids off to the different activities they were involved in. In the old days, the mother taught her daughters to cook and bake but with a working mother, it was easier to do it herself than to take the time to show them how to do it - so that the knowledge carried on to the next generation. We have now gone about 2 generations where the mothers are workers so cooking has gone to fast foods to the point where a lot of them don't know how to make food from scratch. It could be laziness but it goes deeper than that. Some people don't like to cook just for themselves so they don't. Some are coming home late and still have to fix the meal so a drive through does the trick or the kids wouldn't be getting dinner until 9 p.m. Some would rather use the cooking time to be with their children and not "stuck in the kitchen". When the mother was teaching her daughter (in today's world that would be child - male or female), they had time to talk and work - that is lost in today's world. Before my hubby died of cancer I had his 4 children and my son and I still made all the meals from scratch, cleaned the house, drove them wherever they needed to go, etc. It can be done but there has to be coordination in the family - different people doing different chores so the time is there. Also, my children didn't get preferential treatment at meal time - whatever was being served was it. They either ate it or didn't eat. I didn't fix different foods for each person's special likes (except on their birthday). My children and step-children learned to eat everything that was put in front of them. No pickiness.

So, there are many reasons why people don't cook anymore. Some still do - I still do to this day. I have learned to modify recipes that originally served 5 to serving 7 and then down to serving 2. I looked on it as a challenge. I still love to try out new recipes and bake things for my group of ladies I get together with once a week.

Answer 3

The trend toward convenience foods came about after World War II. During the war, women did the work previously done by men. They also had to take on the jobs of building the ships and airplanes and other things for the war effort. These jobs didn't exist on a large scale before the war and now all of the men who would have done the job were off to war.

Before WWII, it was considered shameful if a man's wife "had" to work. It meant that he couldn't support his family. Also, married women who worked outside the home were not regarded as proper ladies. They were stymatized. Just about the only work a woman could do was teach or nurse. Then you were an educated professional. That was different.

Once the war was over, women found that they liked working outside of the home. I suppose most men didn't mind the extra income or maybe the women were just stubborn. Anyway, they sent their kids to sitters and went to work. The extra income allowed them to purchase household convenience and labor saving devices they couldn't afford before: Washing machines, electric kitchen appliances, etc. Then in the 50s people started buying TVs. It takes up a lot of time to watch TV. It doesn't leave much time for labor-intensive endeavors like cooking.

Well, then the food industry got hip to the fact that they could make foods suitable for the new lifestyles: canned soups, TV dinners, etc. Then came the microwave.

So that's pretty much it in a nutshell. If you have successive generations who don't learn to cook, you lose the technical skills to do it. Most people couldn't make a pie, bread, cookies from scratch. Most can't make a cake without a mix.

How many people know what the process is for canning, pickling, curing olives or making sausages? Hardly any. If you do those things your friends just figure it is your hobby.

Answer 4

People are too busy and dont have the time. I get up at 5:45 am, work, get home by 4:30. Then I have to shower and sit down after being a cook all day. Its rough work. By that time Im too tired and make an easy meal for the kids. Then I have to clean house. Do you think I really have the time or feel like cooking after all that?

Answer 5

I dont know about anybody else, but I'm a lousy cook and Lean Cuisine makes a lot of really good dinners. I live alone and even if I did know how to cook, it's kind of hard making a meal for 1. My children used to think that napkins were for spitting out the food and tossing it. They requested I never cook again and I took them up on their suggestion. Luckily, somehow all of my children are really good cooks, so I get to enjoy home-cooked meals a lot.

Answer 6

I cook every day and make just about everything I eat from scratch. I do cheat here and there and buy frozen that I heat in my toaster oven or microwave. But a lot of the stuff of that nature isn't very good. And also full of stuff that's not that healthy for you if you eat it every day.

Answer 7

In most cases all food like this are pre-cooked so it'll be safe.(you can check the label too, surely it woulc mention something about it) But do you have anything else to cook it in? You could always use the stove top/oven/etc instead of a microwave.

Answer 8

Most people are too busy working and running kids all over the place. So they buy microwavable food to make dinner a quick event.

Answer 9

What you say is largely accurate. Time, or the lack of it, or the belief people have that they lack the time, is the problem.

As for me, mine, and the people I serve in my restaurant ... NO microwaving as I believe it is not good for you or other living beings, natural (organic products), and recipes that can be achieved at home or commercially that are delicious, nutritious and can be properly prepared in a relatively short period of time.

Answer 10

not the case here. I cannot stand the processed foods.