Read this...
www.goodfood.com.au/eat-out/news/top-tv-chefs-grilled-for-unhealthy-recipe-ideas-20121218-2bkly?rand=1355808224588
Now consider commenting...
Really, a pre-made "TV Dinner" being more healthy than a freshly cooked meal...
I agree, some meals by TV chefs will be a little unhealthy, but overall, a freshly prepared and cooked meal is what it's all about... surely !!???
I would think we need to teach our kids to cook, as opposed to select a Ready Made (Frozen) TV Dinner, and learn how to cook it in the microwave....
PS - just a stupid article I think... Nobody was even prepared to put their name against it... just some initials at the bottom... maybe... But the website obviously is responsible for the article...
Darren Gray's name is at the top, whoever that is? No link to the published paper in the article either. Which ever way slice it up it has to be somewhat of a beat up. Anything you cook fresh yourself is, within reason, going to be healthier than something you slap in the microwave and heat up. I've got J.O's 30 minute meals and nothing in their jumps out at me as ridiculously unhealthy, but again, there are also deserts in there so as with everything you have to eat appropriately.
Edit: Found a better article which has a link to the paper and some stats listed.
www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/dec/17/celebrity-chefs-recipes-less-healthy-ready-meals-data
As suspected it's a bit of a beat up, the results are pretty damn close. If you read the 'strengths and weaknesses' section of the paper they make some fairly glaring observations RE the validity of the study such as: "We did not examine the micronutrient content of the ready meals or recipes or the presence of artificial preservatives, flavours, colourings, or stabilisers. These may be additional important aspects to consider when judging the overall healthiness of a food.", "In the United Kingdom, the published nutritional data used for analysis of ready meals is permitted by law to vary by 20% from the true macronutrient values.", These two alone make the entire study fairly useless, imo.
I've done a bit bit of my own research on the subject, you can too.
When you next go shopping, look in someones trolley and then look at them, and if possible their kids.
To date my results are that people with ready made processed often frozen, sometimes dried meals..... Are not lookin real good!!
The ones with vegeis, meat, BUTTER (OMG so bad), oil, spices and other stuff you would cook a meal with are looking better, and spending less money.
Don't take this as gosple though as it's not peer reviewed or anything like that.
I think there are 2 huge differences
1. If you're preparing fresh food you're more likely to have some healthy side dishes rather than just following it up with a carton of icecream eaten on the couch.
2. You can adjust recipes - add a few more vegies, cut out some of the cream or butter etc
Plus if using these cookbooks gets you into the habit of cooking your own food that can only be a good thing.
^^^'Nothing' cooked in anything is still 'nothing'.
'Nothing' is not a great diet - 'Something' is...everybody just has a different opinion of what the right 'something' is.
(Ok I stretched that out as far as I could.
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Doggie, I bet you're a big fan of pizza reheated in the microwave!? Me too!
I actually cook Pizza at home quite a bit. I usually have a bag of grated "Pizza Cheese", plus pitta bread bases in the freezer... from there I raid the fridge vegie department, olives from the jar... etc... Mmmm... simple pizza!
What's the matter tmurray, you sell microwaves...?
Everything is copy pasted, those results you got in school, you got as a reward for your ability to copy paste...
science and engineering are amongst the worst for copy paste...
But hey, whatever
is peer reviewed another way of saying bought and paid for..?
there are plenty of peer reviews,
monied interests decide what you see to be legit
