Alright, America. Let's Start Taxing Junk Food.

Equilibrium

Cooking at home doesn't have to take hours a day -- I'd be eating a bowl of cereal every night if that were the case! It take a few minutes to make mac & cheese from ingredients instead of using that blue package (is it still blue?). Put the pasta on to boil, make a white sauce, grate the cheese while the white sauce is cooking, add the cheese to the white sauce, drain the pasta, mix the cheese sauce with the pasta. BTW, this isn't a good example on a purely cost comparison, as those boxes of mac & cheese are incredibly cheap, as I remember.

Lots of meals can be made quickly. There are plenty of good meals to make that can be put together in 10-15 minutes, and so many more if you go up to 30 minutes. I couldn't spend hours or even an hour cooking after working all day. Besides that, if there is more than one person in the house, cooking can be speeded up by having everyone help.

This all goes back to education, though. I'm not just talking about Home Economics or cookery lessons in school. I guess cooking lessons are expensive. It seems that some really basic cooking lessons are needed. But who is going to offer it? Governments are stretched. Charities are stretched. I wouldn't know how to address this need. Maybe that's where a fast food tax could go? lol

amy1612

I agree, home cooked decent meals dont have to take that long....or,buy a cheap slow cooker, bang everything in on a morning and you have a nice healthy meal reay for when you get in from work. I usually make tomorrows lunch the night before,all I have to do is stick some pasta on, whizz up some tomatoes in the blender,and then add whatever else and theres a healthy,filling lunch. To buy a bag of pasta, some vegetables,etc, might cost about £5 for a whole weeks worth of lunches, you could spend that daily on a sandwich or something.

It is a case of education,the example of "healthier" crisps never being on deals isnt a good one...its not a case of eating crisps with less calories,its a case of eating less crisps. If people want to live healthier lives they need reeducating and to stop thinking that eating well takes so much effort.