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5 reasons why you should cook more

USLibofCongress flickr 241x300 5 reasons why you should cook moreThe definition of cooking has changed in recent years.  Is reheating a can of soup cooking?  How about putting a frozen pizza in the oven?  Or making mac&cheese from a box?  I suppose technically, yes, you are “cooking” the food, however, our grandmothers would not recognize this as “cooking”.

I truly believe we all need to learn how to cook.  Each and every one of us.  

Feeding ourselves with healthy food is crucial to our well-being and survival.

  • We need to know where our food comes from.
  • We need to know what’s in our food.  (This is a huge problem today – have you read the ingredients on a prepared food package recently? Yikes.)

We need to be able to tailor food to our tastes.

And we need food that won’t cost us an exorbitant amount.

It all comes down to cooking.

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