I would expand the question to "How much time do you spend managing the food ecosystem in your household?" I guess this is what earlier generations in India included in "running the household".
E.g. Last week I cooked a fried fish in a thickened black sauce and made a prawn curry (3-4 hours on that day) but the process also involved purchasing the fish (I don't do home delivery of groceries) and prawns, and gutting 2 kg of prawns. Now the fish dish needed boneless chunks, but I bought the whole fish (because smaller fishmongers can't discard the rest of the carcass profitably and I prefer buying from smaller local sellers). The rest of the fish carcass can best be used to make a fish broth, which took another 90 min, but 2 days later. This broth is now in the freezer but will become a soup sometime next week or so. So, from picking and buying an adequate variety but appropriate quantity of vegetables, fruits, grains, fats, and meats, to orchestrating what gets cooked when to maximize freshness of each item, to keeping track of what's been eaten and how much is leftover in the fridge, to cooking some of the families meals myself, to cleaning up and disposing of kitchen waste appropriately, I'd say it takes about 12-15 hours a week. On Sep 4, 2018 10:29, "Karen Fernandes" <[email protected]> wrote: I work from home. I live with my mother who does most of the cooking. I make my own breakfast though, for which I spend 30-40 minutes per day cooking. Karen. On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 8:35 AM Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote: > Something I am curious about. > > How much time here do people spend actually cooking the food they eat? To > make the data more useful, calculate the time you spent over the past week > in total. > > Also, please mention whether you work outside home or primarily within home > (as a homemaker or a long distance worker) > > Udhay > -- > > -- > ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((via phone)) >
