How To Enjoy Cooking
Cooking is undoubtedly daunting. Here are some real world tips for shaking off that anxiety and learning to love it.
Despite the consumption and absorption of food and its nutrients being fundamental to human survival, many of us don’t experience regular preparation of our own food until we are adults. Research has shown us that the earlier in life we can learn this valuable skill, the greater our confidence, cooking practices, cooking attitudes, diet quality (with the exception of fibre intake where adult learners were higher) and health. Understandably, demands of modern life and the never-ending sense of having “no time” often get in the way.
We might know that it is useful and healthy to cook for ourselves, but why should we care when there are so many easier options at hand nowadays? When groceries are so expensive, how can we get excited about filling our kitchens with ingredients all the time?
How can we possibly learn to love this thing?
Cook what you like
This may seem condescendingly simple to state, but it’s truly very important.
Family hand-me-downs, dusty cookbooks, the internet. There are so many recipes available to us that it can feel utterly impossible to know where to start. The best place is simply to start with your favourite foods.
