Great Benefits of Home Cooking

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Great Benefits of Home Cooking Home cooking has its benefits for our health. To begin with, cooking at home can save money. Home cooking can help you save $100 or more a week. Instead of eating out frequently you can save by preparing some basic meals for yourself. For example, when I go eat out with my husband we spend about $50 on just one meal, but when we go to the supermarket we spend $100 for a whole week because we buy food in bulk and use store coupons. Second, home cooking is important because it is fun, especially with other members of the family. For example, when I cook, I include my little son every time. While we are preparing all the stuff that we need for the meal, my little two-and-a-half-year old boy helps me wash the vegetable, and at the same time he always asks me the name of the vegetables. That’s a way that involve my son and I help him learn each word, so that next time when preparing a meal when I ask him to bring me vegetable, fruit, he has already learned the name and knows how to wash them. Also this is a loving time with him. Therefore, teaching children how to cook and eat home cooked food is a gift they can pass all this to their children and grandchildren. Most importantly, home cooking has less fat and salt. However chefs in restaurants use a high level of salt and fat to make their products taste better, but preparing meals at home allows you to control the amount of salt and oils. By controlling fats in your meals you can control your weight and by controlling your weight you are building your health. Finally, home cooked food is better for your health than the restaurant food. People are poisoned by food each year because they do not know who is cooking the food that they eat and how and when it was prepared. Maybe they don’t know that the food has been reheated. For example, one day I went to eat Chinese food early in the

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