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Cooking at Home Guarantees Cash Control, Connectedness, and Life Skills to Brit Families
Dean Simmons, a recent graduate of UBC's Integrated Studies in Land and Food Systems program, says that when he surveyed B.C. families about their cooking habits, he was surprised to find that the vast majority of families were cooking at home on a regular basis.
"I expected them to be more about take-out and eating out," he says.
When he asked why, they cited three reasons - cash control, connectedness and life skills.
Control on cash also extended to control over what the family is eating.
"It allowed them to exclude certain foods they didn't want - people talked about not having preservatives and junk foods," Simmons says.
Connectedness meant sitting together with family at a meal, and also to connect to their heritage, with immigrants in particular wanting to enjoy the foods of their homeland.
The final theme relates to life skills, says Simmons: "Nearly every teen I spoke to said learning to cook was important for when they moved out of the house. And this included teens who didn't like cooking."
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