Take Back the Plate: Reasons to Cook at Home

Whether you’re studying for finals or training for your next big game, it’s always important to eat healthy food. And sometimes the healthiest and most eco-responsible thing you can do is cook for yourself at home. Sustainable Table offers some reasons why you should ‘take back the plate’ and learn sustainable home cooking:

1. It’s Economical Home: cooking is cheaper than buying food at a restaurant or pre-packaged food in a store.
2. It’s Safer: When you cook you have more control over the substances that go into your food; you can more easily avoid pesticides, antibiotics, hormones and chemical fertilizers.
3. It’s Healthier: You can control the nutritional value that goes into each meal by choosing healthy ingredients.
4. It Tastes Better: In recent decades our taste buds have been corrupted through the use of cheap chemicals and corn syrup to fill the role of traditional spices and herbs.
5. It Tastes Like You Want it To: When you cook you can customize the flavors to fit your preferences.
6. It’s Satisfying: You have the opportunity to master the skill of cooking, a skill that will serve you well for the rest of your life.

For more information about sustainable cooking at home visit SustainableTable.com.

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