I was like this in the past, it’s just that you’ve spent your entire life eating the same things and only know how to cook those things (if you can cook at all), so changing feels very intimidating and involves several steps. It’s not just buying different things, it’s learning how to cook them properly and which ones you like, and getting over the bump of initial slight dislike of most new things which is pretty instinctive.
What we need is to help people learn to cook things and help them ease into trying new foods, ideally this would be family members and friends but specific community groups is good too.
this is a good and fair point. ive been cooking so long you can probably hand me any grain, legume, or vegetable and ill figure out something decent with it. my partner often tries to learn to cook with recipes rather than instinct and it takes like twice the amount of time and work for him 😭
I was like this in the past, it’s just that you’ve spent your entire life eating the same things and only know how to cook those things (if you can cook at all), so changing feels very intimidating and involves several steps. It’s not just buying different things, it’s learning how to cook them properly and which ones you like, and getting over the bump of initial slight dislike of most new things which is pretty instinctive.
What we need is to help people learn to cook things and help them ease into trying new foods, ideally this would be family members and friends but specific community groups is good too.
this is a good and fair point. ive been cooking so long you can probably hand me any grain, legume, or vegetable and ill figure out something decent with it. my partner often tries to learn to cook with recipes rather than instinct and it takes like twice the amount of time and work for him 😭