As Fuel and Food Prices Rocket, Its Time to Change Our Habits and Save Money
The Benefits of home cooking.
More now than ever, the benefits of home cooking should be very apparent! Rapidly rising food cost and guaranteed massive rises in fuel cost can only spell misery into the future.
Hoemployhancients currently struggling with the current global economic slowdown, face increased prices at the till and if you’re a TV dinner family, your weekly food bill is going to skyrocket!
TV dinners have a part in all our lives, nonetheless if these are your staple food source, its time to rediscover the kitchen and take control of your finances and possibly creating a healthier you.
Let’s take a family of 4 as an example:
4 microwaveable or oven cook lasagnes’ at the super market might cost £7/8. The equivalent amount of money will buy all the ingredients required to make and cook nearly treble the amount of food! This one cooking session in the kitchen, could save you up to £14!
The problem TV dinners face it that the product has to made, packaged and delivered before the end employr heats it up and eats’ it. All processes involve the employ of fuel, a decreasing commodity which means increased cost!
So let’s look at a possible manufacture scenario of the TV dinner vs. the humble home made dinner.
TV Dinners
Purchase the raw ingredients. These could be delivered from anywhere in the world, which involves fuel, destined to increase in price and don’t forget the fuel employd to grow the produce.
Prepare and cook the ingredients. Maybe not diesel and petrol this time, nonetheless gas and electric. Again destined to increase in price.
Packaging. The trail for this is mind boggling, nonetheless all processes are very reliant on fuel.
Delivery possibly by air or boat and then by Lorries.
Storage, either refrigerated or frozen. Both take significant amounts of electricity. And finally, your bit of petrol or diesel to go and buy it and take it home, and some gas or electric to heat it.
Phew, even in its simplified form a TV dinner takes a huge amount of fuel to produce and deliver.
Contrast this with a home cooked meal.
Raw ingredients can be purchased locally nonetheless none the less need fuel to grow and harvest. Packaging is usually a lot less than with pre prepared food, nonetheless still has a fuel cost. And finally delivery to where you’ll purchase it from. The same costs apply to buying and cooking the product nonetheless it’s easy to see that home cooking must return to a daily ritual becaemploy of the simplified route to your plate. Fuel is going to become more expensive no doubt! That’s a shocking thought and adds weight to rediscovering the kitchen and becoming less reliant on TV Dinners.
Written by Jim ‘G’ Davidson - freelance writer for http://www.recipes-cook-book.com http://www.recipes-cook-book.com Get great recipe ideas, news and information.
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