subject: The Challenge Of Planning Family Meal [print this page] Mother knows bestMother knows best. This is the usual line that we hear. The cook in the family is mostly the mothers. Because she knows their favorite foods. In the present time, mothers are already working to help the husband in providing family needs. This is why the fathers are now learning to do kitchen chores sometimes.
Despite that fact, at home moms are still considered as chefs. Maybe that is why more families are having obesity problems. Think with me, some decades ago a mom stayed at home all day. She had plenty of time to prepare the meals for their family. Now since that moms have less time to cook (because they work all day), most of the time they will be forced to buy ready to eat food. Now as everyone knows, this kind of food tend to have high percentage of fat which will make the family to gain weight. There is one of the reason why some families are having problems with wright.
About 40 percent of men cook dinner at home but after the next two months, only 13 percent of all meals men prepared at home.
This percentage is decreasing because most of the men dont like to cook and they think that preparing meals is not their function in the family. They are wrong.
Several cooking shows, websites and food magazines were created for men to convince them to cook.
All this effort did not deliver great results. In many homes the women is still the only one who cooks while the men is watching TV... Women could and should try to involve men when cooking. They should try to persuade them into cooking and some day. the women might be the one watching TV while the men is cooking.
If nothing works, then maybe your last chance of persuading the men to cook is to bring everyone of the family into the kitchen. If every member helped each other when doing meals, then the fathers would feel more comfortable and might even consider that as a bonding activity. Everyone wins.
It is hope that men will get involve in kitchen activities. Be one.
