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WHERE DID WE GO WRONG? Have you ever spent a small fortune in the supermarket and still struggled toput a decent meal together? Are your children always complaining they’rehungry even though they eat constantly? Do you own a set of expensivesaucepans or have a kitchen full of gadgets you never use? Would you like tocook more and eat together as a family if only you had the time? Time, or lack of it, is probably the reason most people give for notcooking, but less than 40 years ago practically everyone cooked atleast one proper meal from scratch every day, even though very fewpeople owned a fridge, let alone all the other labour-saving deviceswe take for granted today. Maybe we do have more commitments in some areas of our lives than previous generations, but when itcomes to food, not only do we have a much greater variety to choosefrom, we also have 24-hour supermarkets, internet shopping, homedeliveries, endless cookery programmes on TV, recipe books galoreand microwave ovens that sell for smaller sums of money than you’dspend on a family meal in a fast food outlet.To hear some people talk you’d think no one had ever beenbusy until about 1985, but no matter where you live or what yourcircumstances are, the truth is you can put a balanced mealtogether in less time that it takes to dial up a pizza and wait for itto be delivered (cold, usually) to your door. Nobody should haveto rely on takeaways and ready meals, let alone feed them to theirchildren, on a regular basis.