Let’s see if you can guess this correctly: You may think about this thing a lot, maybe have a career in it, can’t survive without it, you may enjoy some types of it more than others… don’t know what it is? It’s food!
There is so much to food. I don’t even know where to start. Bottom line is if you’re like most people, we all like food.
Food is enjoyable. But unfortunately, according to Forbes.com, people across the globe are increasingly becoming overweight. Although you probably already knew this fact, keep it in mind while we discuss:
Why teens should learn to cook!
1. Survival Skill:
Cooking is a skill. This is why we pick some restaurants over others because some cooks have better cooking skills than others. Better cooks make better restaurant. Teens need to know this skill, how to cook, so they know how to cook before they are old enough to leave the house.
My mom always says to help her cook so I can learn how to, or else I would have to eat McDonald’s or other fast food restaurants everyday for the rest of my life.
I definitely don’t want that to happen to me, especially after watching the documentary, Super Size Me. Filmmaker, Morgan Spurlock, decided to eat McDonald’s for breakfast, lunch and dinner for a month, and ended up increasing his body mass by 13%, gaining 25 pounds and increased his cholesterol level. I’m sure none of us would like that to happen to us.
2. Save money and get healthy:
When teens are on their own, they will need to learn to cook to save money. Although food prices are increasing nowadays, it is still cheaper to cook food at home than to eat at restaurants. The majority of teens will not be making a lot of money when they are out of the house. They will need to have this skill of cooking to save money.
Teens need to learn to cook so they can be healthier. Buying food from the grocery store and cooking at home gives you more selections of the healthier things you eat, such as organic food.
3. It's fun!
I took a web design class recently and one of the projects was to make a website about the history of food. I have to admit that I had a lot of fun doing this project. We had to make food from different time periods. I ended up making ice cream and German Chocolate Cake from scratch. Another time I had fun making food was with my friends. For my birthday, I decided to have friends over to bake my birthday cake and then a sleepover.
Those are just two examples of how much fun I had with cooking.
I would love to know about a time that you had fun cooking by leaving us a comment below.
Also, parents, or anyone, who knows or has a teen, let them know about our teen content writing competition.
p.s. 2 pictures of food I made.
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