"Steve Calvin" > wrote in message
...
> With lives seemingly getting busier and busier do you see the end of
> "scratch" cooking in the future? Just looking backward, my Mother and
> especially my Grandmothers cooked everything from scratch. Breads, cakes,
> pies including the crusts, stews, soups, sauces etc...
>
> Today is seems as though the number of people who routinely cook from
> scratch is dwindling. People are migrating to canned stews, spaghetti
> sauces, sauces in general, soups, etc. I know quite a few people who
> don't cook, period. They either do take out, go out, TV-"dinners", frozen
> stuff like pot-pies, and even premade and frozen PB&J sandwiches for gawd
> sakes! Now I admit that I don't routinely make bread but I pretty much
> make much everything else "the old fashioned way."
>
> Anyone else noticing a decline in folks like us who enjoy cooking and make
> the time necessary to indulge ourselves?
>
> --
> Steve
>
> Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it.
> Autograph your work with excellence.
>

There was a study in Sweden or some such place that pondered the problem of
people looking older due to the amount of chemicals found in processed food.
They quoted a 'fact' that a 35 year old looked around 40+ and a 15 year old
looked 20 or so.
The point of the study was not that people grew up faster, but that they
just looked older and perhaps shortened their life spans by eating so many
chemicals.