Advice about food and cooking for divorced men and women: cooking skills

What's gone wrong?
The UK is a nation that has lost it’s pride in it’s ability to cook which has led to at least two generations of men and women who depend largely on ready made, pre prepared and junk food from supermarkets and takeaways to provide them with their energy and nutritional requirements.

This is despite an avalanche of television programmes about cooking and how to do it.  If you are eating lots of ready meals and fast and highly processed food, then now might be a good time to change your ways. This sort of diet is not good for your health and will be a drain on your post divorce finances as well.

It is more than likely that you have financial problems after divorce and need to find ways to make the most of your reduced income.  Learning or re-discovering how to make simple, good food from fresh ingredients will improve your general well being and finances at one stroke as well as impressing your friends and family.

In this section of  My Life After Divorce you can learn about basic cooking techniques, where to source and buy necessary equipment and the best food writers and publications to give you ideas and inspiration.

No excuse
It is not a valid excuse to plead lack of time as a reason for not preparing decent food either for yourself or for those dependent on you.  If you can go to the gym, sit in front of the TV or computer then you really do have time to get in the kitchen and make something sensible, nourishing and delicious to eat.  Great meals do not have to take hours to prepare, all it takes is the will to improve your diet and those around you.

Waste
Supermarkets sell some very good fresh products despite the fact that some of them have travelled further than Marc Polo to arrive at your downtown Tesco Metro.  However, don't forget the local independent retailers they have some great products, especially seasonal fresh fruit and vegetables.  Strike a balance between between supermarket giants and your local retailers.

However, wherever you shop only buy what you need.  Beware of the 3 for 2 offers especially in fresh products.  If you can't eat three lots before it goes off then don't buy it avoid contributing to the millions of tons of food that we waste ever year.  Millions around the world do not have enough to eat we should be responsible and only buy what what we need.