Eating and recession
Harder times have transformed a
nation’s eating habits
Do you usually do cooking? Actually I don’t. I would like to look back
on my diet and eating habits so I chose this article.
Discussion:
What do you think about your eating habits?
Isn’t it economical and saving time and
energy to throw cooking away?
Summary:
A few years ago the British
diet seemed to be improving. They eat more fruits and vegetables. Then came the
financial crisis, a commodity-price surge and government belt-tightening. Retail
food prices in Britain have increased by 25% since January 2008, considerably
more than overall inflation. Among the poor, the proportion of household
spending that goes on food has risen slightly since 2007, to 16%, reversing a
long downward trend (the proportion was half in 1938).
The first thing to throw
away was eating out habits and secondly worries about sustainability and the
environment. Then fruit and vegetable sales have declined.
These changes are most
pronounced among the poorest one-fifth of the population. But they are by no
means restricted to the poor.
(1) Customers are visiting supermarkets more often but
buying less when they do. (List-making tendency: decided what they buy
beforehand)
(2) Britons are throwing away less food: they are doing less
cooking
(3) Many people spend more time watching people cook than
doing it themselves.
(4) “Five a day” government campaign to persuade people to
eat more fruit and vegetables, is failing.
(5) Not only the poor but also everybody favors ready meals.
Yet these dramatic changes
in diet are not always evident in supermarkets because fresh vegetables and
fruits are the sign of quality so they display extravagantly.
As eating habits have
changed, so has the definition of cooking. “There’s a difference between what your grandmother would
have regarded as cooking from scratch and what people mean by it now,”
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