Let me tell you from direct, learned experience:
Most restaurant food is toxic.
If you care about your health & longevity, make ‘eating out’ a rare, exclusive event.
Its importance is on par with exercise.
The irony of this article is the amount of space grocers reserve for fresh food correlates to the percentage of those cooking and continues to worsen while startups like Hello Fresh & Home Chef fill the void.
Here’s the worst part in the form of a question:
Who else has noticed that a staple of grocery checkout - recipe books/magazines - have been slowly disappearing and that self-checkout are bereft of ‘impulse goods retail items’ such as magazines?
The grocery industry’s problem is somewhat self-inflicted, but placing blame upon them or the lack of home economics is classic deflection.
People literally need to look in the mirror.
Who else has noticed that a staple of grocery checkout -
recipe books/magazines - have been slowly disappearing and
that self-checkout are bereft of ‘impulse goods retail items’
such as magazines?
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Nothing new as life is ever changing be it for the good or bad....
“Who else has noticed that a staple of grocery checkout - recipe books/magazines - have been slowly disappearing”
that’s because the internet has millions of free recipes, including commentary from other folks about ratings, improvements and variations ... and then there are the cooking shows like Alton Brown’s and dozens of others where one can learn basic techniques and tricks ...
i used to have shelves full of cookbooks, and now am down to just a very few, most of which i keep for sentimental reasons anyway ...
Actually it is partly one of the extended effects of contraception. While in 1800 US women on average had 7 children had her first child around the age of 23 and proceeded to bear children at two-year intervals until her early 40s (more of whom died before reaching adulthood than now), and in the baby boom era the average was 3.6 kids (where children made up 36 percent, vs. 22:% now), yet by 2021 it was 1.6.6, and with the median age for giving birth hitting an unprecedented age 30.
Usually meaning women working outside the home, and more money to spend on meals outside the home thus less cooking (besides more spoiled kids, who have no or maybe just one sibling to learn how to get along with and share, thus more being unduly fearful and intolerant of others).
If you are going to hook up, get married and have all the kids God gives.