The 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 really 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.  Food that we know where it came from.  We know what’s in it. (“What’s in it” is a huge problem nowadays – have you read the ingredients on a prepared food package recently? Yikes.)  Food we can tailor to our taste.  And that won’t cost us an exorbitant amount.  It all comes down to cooking.

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