How much do you really care about the food you eat?

We were well off by any stretch, but always had good, homemade made soups & stews.
We rarely had puddings apart from Sundays with our main dinner.
Too many overweight children these days. You might have got an odd one few in every school year back in the 70s.
No not obsessed but more interested in these micro biomes in the gut- watching a few clips on YouTube on recipes to improve gut health.
Since I’ve altered my diet my knees have improved dramatically.

We choose to spend a lot on good food. We have organic veg, organic eggs, fresh fish and organic milk. We don’t buy much in supermarkets. I believe you are what you eat. As someone said, if you were presented with a plateful of organic veg together with a cupful of chemicals and then told to pour the chemicals on the veg you wouldn’t do it would you.

Someone I know is conducting a survey into " What Characteristics Influence Diet and Exercise Habits?" and is recruiting participants. There are questions to answer which will take about 15 minutes to answer. See more about it at app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/stirling/rb-hpsp116-survey

Charleygirl5

One Gran was dead when I was born, the other was a lousy cook. If we were to have mince and potatoes for lunch, mince would start cooking around 8.30 am

We had little money, but my mother did her best. Everything from scratch. There were no ready meals then and fish and chips from a shop were a rarity as we lived in the middle of nowhere.

I knew the days of the week by the food on the table, it was nutritious but too salty.

It’s interesting re the salt, I think some of the “poorer” foods perhaps needed more salt.

When my MIL was recovering from cancer I got her off all the heavily processed rubbish she was buying from M&S and Waitrose and onto a healthier unprocessed diet.

She slipped back into her old ways and got some ready meals but couldn’t eat them because of they were too salty.

One Gran was dead when I was born, the other was a lousy cook. If we were to have mince and potatoes for lunch, mince would start cooking around 8.30 am

We had little money, but my mother did her best. Everything from scratch. There were no ready meals then and fish and chips from a shop were a rarity as we lived in the middle of nowhere.

I knew the days of the week by the food on the table, it was nutritious but too salty.

I am I suppose fussy about what I eat and where it comes from.

I am also fussy regarding what restaurants we go to.

I cook from scratch for us and GC when they are here.

Only takeaway we have is a Chinese or very very occasionally fish and chips from local chippy.

Both my Grans cooked were good cooks and bakers, my mum was ok’ish, but having pubs and restaurants whilst I was growing up, she always had food prepared and ready to eat by the kitchen staff.

To add to my post upthread I do occasionally indulge in unhealthy fried eggs (2) and oven chips with a slice of crusty bread, heaven.

The one thing she doesnt do much of is snacks.
I cant say the same about me.

My mother, born in 1904, had to cook from scratch every day partly from economy but mostly because ready meals etc were unknown..
I was brought up on meals mostly from economical cuts and home grown veg.
There were two things I couldn’t or wouldn’t eat, sheep’s hearts and tripe.
I followed in her footsteps as to the cooking from scratch but could afford better cuts and more expensive ingredients.
My late H would not eat takeaways or ready meals but I do indulge now that I provide my own meals.
I do make quick meals more as I have lost the ability to stand for long and my patience has diminished but a jacket potato with cheese or maybe tuna, salmon with homemade potato salad and the ever useful chicken breast or thigh tray baked with veg or with salad are regulars on my rota.

Once in 3/4 weeks I have been having a Chinese takeaway with a friend but she has suddenly stopped getting in touch, she is ok as she sees other people I have texted her but no reply, I have obviously upset her but at a loss to know why.
However that is for another thread!!

^Does it matter to you what you eat YES
or is it just a chore to shop and cook YES^

I am like this too.

I am partly going by my mum.
She is living to a very old age, and is still, in essence, perfectly fine.

She isnt afraid of fish fingers or pizza. But also eats "well" if you see what I mean.

I enjoyed cooking good meals for family and friends, but am not really interested in what I eat myself. My husband used to say I just saw it as fuel.

Now widowed, I’m trying to get back to cooking ‘proper’ meals for one, but without enthusiasm.
However I’ve always enjoyed a meal out at a restaurant or when abroad on holiday and relaxed.

DH and I have just been discussing food waste and how little we throw away. I think it’s partly because everything is made from scratch and we double up to freeze portions for another day. Good food is important to us, we have 2 allotments, and generally have a Mediterranean diet but we’re not obsessive about it and will have a ready meal occasionally.

To my shame my children were well aquainted with fishfingers and packet soup !
Now I find they have wide food likes and dislikes , cook from scratch and are perfectly healthy ,
I got off the bus after work and trudged up the lane to find OH had the oven on for the oven chips !
My childhood memories of home cooked food depended on what the food coupons stretched to , dad gave us the rind off the bacon to chew as a treat , I’m now no better or Nor worse than my peers raised on better food

Tizliz

*Does it matter to you what you eat* YES
or is it just a chore to shop and cook YES

I am also getting OH more involved so I can do less but we switch from trying pre-prepared foods to cooking from scratch (that means buying a joint of beef to make spag bol etc)

Buying a joint of beef to make spag Bol???

I am a very capable cook but sometimes I am lazy

I'm quite fussy. I prefer meat from the butcher and fresh veg although there is no veg shop here anymore.Cant eat the enormous stodgy scones and bread so popular locally. I try to avoid processed food. Children are all good cooks.

I come from a line of good cooks. My gran was a cook in a large Jewish household in glasgow in the 1920s and many of our family recipes have a Jewish connection. My grandpa was a miner and when he worked nights, she made him stew and butter beans for breakfast. Mum cooked before ready meals and fed four of us healthy snd filling meals on very little. Occasionally I will use ready meals but my children were brought up on homemade dinners. They are both excellent cooks: my don makes fabulous vegetarian meals; my daughter excels at most things. She will occasionally feed the family on fish gingers and oven chips but usually its meals made from scratch

I used to prepare delectable puréed home cooked delicacies when D1 first started on solids.
She spat them across the kitchen so I decided Heinz jars were no more wasteful and more nutritious than no food at all, but once beyond that stage, I have always given my children home cooked food (pasta is easily as quick as fish fingers) and am now happy to see that the littlest DGCs expect and enjoy cucumber sticks, tomato quarters and carrot batons as part of their meal.
My 3 Ds (and SILs) constantly surprise me with amazing food despite my years in catering!

I am mindful but not obsessive, in my younger days I didn’t have the money to be choosy but now I shop for better food. I don’t mind cooking or shopping we have a good farm shop nearby which has lovely veg.

Does it matter to you what you eat YES
or is it just a chore to shop and cook YES

I am also getting OH more involved so I can do less but we switch from trying pre-prepared foods to cooking from scratch (that means buying a joint of beef to make spag bol etc)

Food is not only a necessity---eating can be an ever-recurring pleasure. Moreover,happily eating together as a family creates a bond.

Good for you , Sago. Not only for future -proofing your husband but for thoughtfully dealing with your duty as a mother.