Why is it important to develop a habit of cooking at an early age?
A family cooking breakfast together.
Not everyone can be able to cook, especially children since they depend on their guardians to give them nutritious meals. Sometimes the adults can’t feed their children or themselves. Cooking at a young age prepares kids to cook nutritious meals for themselves in the future and not depend on others to cook for them.
When learning how to cook you also learn how to do culinary medicine. Culinary Medicine is the practice to improve the state of the foods and drinks that a person consumes.
As said by Mary Ann Liebert, “From a patient perspective, one of the biggest shifts is gaining self-efficacy: feeling empowered to change their health, and that of their family.” This goes to show how cooking can impact your lifestyle positively.
From an interview with a student at AJMS named James Garcia, he shared his view of cooking. “Cause it’ll lead to a healthier life cause cooking can get rid of buying mainly junk food,” James said. The quote explains that cooking at home can replace food that don’t have nutrients.
It doesn’t take long to cook a meal. As shown from Statista, the data shows that the neutral amount a person cooks a week in the United States is 5.9 hours a week, so it really is worth the time to make a nutritious meal and to learn how to cook at a young age.
In addition, some positive to cooking is it relieves stress, helps you understand cultures and customs and flavor of food, boost self-esteem, make your favorite food, boosted your health and wellness, can be used to show love, spend time with who you cook with, can express your creativity, lets you use your brain, make food that follows your dietician suggestion.
However, cooking isn’t all good, there are also some bad parts of cooking. Such as the difficulty of learning how to cook, often making mistakes, injuring yourself, may take a long time to make food, constantly having to go to the grocery store to buy ingredients, and a mess being left behind too.
In lasting, it is important to develop a habit of cooking at an early age because cooking at a young age prepares kids to cook nutritious meals for themselves in the future and not depend on others to cook for them. In addition, cooking can provide some pros and can impact your lifestyle.
Kenya Guevara • Jan 6, 2023 at 1:01 pm
I learned that learing this skill can be benificial for our health and help prepare us for our future.
Allison • Jan 6, 2023 at 12:53 pm
This made me think about how I don’t know how to cook much things.
James • Jan 6, 2023 at 12:52 pm
Something I learned was that even though cooking has majorly a lot of pros, some cons are still there.
Jasmine Cirilo • Jan 5, 2023 at 1:55 pm
I learned that a child has to learn to cook at a young age to be able to be Independent in the real world other than rely on someone to do the work for you.
Kimberly Santibanez • Jan 5, 2023 at 1:54 pm
Something I learned was that cooking is important for everyone because it helps people learn to cook meals.
Melinda • Jan 5, 2023 at 1:54 pm
It’s interesting I never knew that cooking could relieve stress.