Eat Well...and Have Homemade Fare!
Well, in recent years that is what we have been told. Government campaigns and nutritionists have been promoting worrying us about obesity and the less than healthy ingredients in many convenience foods.
When we all know it comes down everything in moderation and common sense whether you buy something prepared or put it together at home with a mixture of fresh or frozen items but at least at home you can say I know what is in the food. You can add or omit some ingredients and reduce how much salt goes into a recipe.
Of course homemade can only be as good as what you choose to cook, how often and how much. That is obvious. How inventive or imaginative your variety of meals are again is maybe governed by your income as much as anything. If you can afford it, always buy the best.
So what happens? We have two newspaper articles/surveys appearing in the media or have been picked up the newspapers and tv and radio stations as filler stories for the news bulletins. One has been commissioned by a television station that broadcasts programmes about food.
These two articles are doing all they can to say that home made food is as bad for you as convenience food and that all we "The British" can rustle up from memory are ten meals. Only a few of the featured ten are on my list but I would probably agree that that ten meals are correct but for many that could be because of the easiness.
I would add however, that once you have basic ingredients such as vegetables, meat and/or fish, various meats and eggs everything becomes a case of how you vary them and I suspect you can actually make more than ten. Also, are we taking into account a meal of one, two or three courses?
Lets take chicken as an example. It's only one meat but you can fry it, roast it, boil it, put in a casserole, a pie, with chips ,with rice and add a sauce of some kind, with a salad or in a sandwich. Then it depends whether you have it traditionally as in a Sunday lunch with vegetables and gravy. And which vegetables you serve it with. You have a variety of meals just using chicken.
How many different ways can you serve potatoes?
We often have a small breakfast(sometimes we don't bother)as lunch may become a kind of brunch. This can be either very light combining perhaps soup followed by healthy sandwiches or it could be a quick snack. Then in the evening our main meal.
And during the day we may have fruit juice, fruit or something of a treat.
The Favourite Meals Of The British
The Dangers Of Home Made Food
When the British diet was criticised years ago, I believe what was really meant is that we stuck to basic ingredients, whereas on the continent say, it was(and I am generalising)lots of rich ingredients.
But having a more diverse population influencing what is eaten, all the books and tv programmes etc...we are also more adventurous(or have been)a lack of exercise and calories play their part but could it be that the diverse menu has helped encourage the obesity problem?
I suggest the porton sizes may play a part too but there is a survey/report issued recently and you've guessed it...staying slim and not being overweight helps the environment and your carbon footprint.
They never miss a trick!
One reason given...you will use public transport more because you'll be unfit(as said by Dr discussing this on UAN)I'm not saying that this Dr agreed with the report just made comments on it.
I thought(unless you can walk or cycle everywhere which is not practicle for most people)that they wanted you to use public transport rather than your own car.
Remember that programme on the World Service that gives a carbon rating at the end...today they were in a restauarant and discussing this and making people feel guilty depending on what they choose to eat. The person invited on made a case that we were fitter and healthier in the 1970's and also made a claim that eating meat and all that entails regarding the farm rearing to plate adds 18% to the carbon problem and again he was sighting the problem of gas that is produced and once again he singled out beef.
Then again...he said we would be healthier with a diet of more vegetables but then found a way to bring that into the problems of global warming.
When we all know it comes down everything in moderation and common sense whether you buy something prepared or put it together at home with a mixture of fresh or frozen items but at least at home you can say I know what is in the food. You can add or omit some ingredients and reduce how much salt goes into a recipe.
Of course homemade can only be as good as what you choose to cook, how often and how much. That is obvious. How inventive or imaginative your variety of meals are again is maybe governed by your income as much as anything. If you can afford it, always buy the best.
So what happens? We have two newspaper articles/surveys appearing in the media or have been picked up the newspapers and tv and radio stations as filler stories for the news bulletins. One has been commissioned by a television station that broadcasts programmes about food.
These two articles are doing all they can to say that home made food is as bad for you as convenience food and that all we "The British" can rustle up from memory are ten meals. Only a few of the featured ten are on my list but I would probably agree that that ten meals are correct but for many that could be because of the easiness.
I would add however, that once you have basic ingredients such as vegetables, meat and/or fish, various meats and eggs everything becomes a case of how you vary them and I suspect you can actually make more than ten. Also, are we taking into account a meal of one, two or three courses?
Lets take chicken as an example. It's only one meat but you can fry it, roast it, boil it, put in a casserole, a pie, with chips ,with rice and add a sauce of some kind, with a salad or in a sandwich. Then it depends whether you have it traditionally as in a Sunday lunch with vegetables and gravy. And which vegetables you serve it with. You have a variety of meals just using chicken.
How many different ways can you serve potatoes?
We often have a small breakfast(sometimes we don't bother)as lunch may become a kind of brunch. This can be either very light combining perhaps soup followed by healthy sandwiches or it could be a quick snack. Then in the evening our main meal.
And during the day we may have fruit juice, fruit or something of a treat.
The Favourite Meals Of The British
The Dangers Of Home Made Food
When the British diet was criticised years ago, I believe what was really meant is that we stuck to basic ingredients, whereas on the continent say, it was(and I am generalising)lots of rich ingredients.
But having a more diverse population influencing what is eaten, all the books and tv programmes etc...we are also more adventurous(or have been)a lack of exercise and calories play their part but could it be that the diverse menu has helped encourage the obesity problem?
I suggest the porton sizes may play a part too but there is a survey/report issued recently and you've guessed it...staying slim and not being overweight helps the environment and your carbon footprint.
They never miss a trick!
One reason given...you will use public transport more because you'll be unfit(as said by Dr discussing this on UAN)I'm not saying that this Dr agreed with the report just made comments on it.
I thought(unless you can walk or cycle everywhere which is not practicle for most people)that they wanted you to use public transport rather than your own car.
Remember that programme on the World Service that gives a carbon rating at the end...today they were in a restauarant and discussing this and making people feel guilty depending on what they choose to eat. The person invited on made a case that we were fitter and healthier in the 1970's and also made a claim that eating meat and all that entails regarding the farm rearing to plate adds 18% to the carbon problem and again he was sighting the problem of gas that is produced and once again he singled out beef.
Then again...he said we would be healthier with a diet of more vegetables but then found a way to bring that into the problems of global warming.
posted by The Great Gildersleeve | 8:21 am
3 Comments:
I'm afraid that to reduce your carbon footprint you'll be on the traditional English diet of potatoes, carrots and turnips.
at least 3 of that top 10 could be considered English...just.
Funny that you should mention potatoes, carrots and turnips Span :-) They are used quite a lot in my meals but so too if I am honest other vegetables that are not perhaps originally seen as British.
I must dig out another list I have as mentioned in another article that are British and as North Star will admit another British meal that he enjoyed when in the UK...Good old fish and chips ;-)
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