The modern world is too fast. That’s not good for the modern person, whose nutritional needs (not to mention actual enjoyment of food) are often the first things to be sacrificed in the name of “convenience”. Proper food has been replaced by pre packaged rubbish and decent cooking has long left us, in “favour” of microwave recipes, pre-prepared supermarket food and tasteless takeout. The result? Poor health, no energy and nothing good to look forward to at the end of yet another long day. It’s time for a change – and that change is coming thanks to the resurgence of easy one pot recipes.
People, no matter what the mass market moguls might think of them, aren’t stupid. We know that pre-made recipes aren’t very good for us and we know that they cost more than they ought. All we need is an alternative – something that takes the same amount of time to prepare but actually gives us some nutrition. Easy one pot recipes, once a staple of all home cooking, are making a welcome reappearance in the British kitchen: pushing the pre-pack rubbish out where it belongs – in the bin – and bringing some welcome goodness to the body politic.
Easy one pot recipes, unlike pre-packed stuff, do exactly what they say on the tin. Easy one pot recipes are easy to make, easy to store and good to eat for at least three days after their first cooking; easy one pot recipes are as cheap as a person wants them to be; and easy one pot recipes can pack more nutrition into a single mouthful than a week’s worth of plastic tub food.
In many ways, easy one pot recipes are actually better on the time front than the little plastic trays of gloopy “curry” one buys at the local supermarket: it takes a little longer to cook easy one pot recipes than it does to stick a fork in a film lid and press a button, but once you’ve made easy one pot recipes they tend to be eaten for a few days in a row. Which means, over three days, the average cooking time is probably actually less than the fork and microwave jobs a lot of us end up with on a daily basis.
Easy one pot recipes can also feed families of as many people as one has a pot big enough to cook for. Try feeding a family of five with a microwave and see how long it takes you. Easy one pot recipes mean plenty of goodness can be kept simmering on a single hob for families whose work and school schedules mean they are forced to eat at different times, too – and that means that easy one pot recipes offer a proper solution for parents who don’t have time to cook for their kids. We all know that teenagers need nutritious food more than adults do – and yet our teenagers are the ones most likely to live off fridge food and packet nonsense. Easy one pot recipes mean that there’s something on the stove waiting for them – something that smells good, tastes good, and is already ready to go. Now that’s fast food you can get behind.
