Lack of cooking skills and poor cooking confi dence
have been connected with poor food choices including
inadequate fruit and vegetable intake1. Cooking skills are
on the decline in modern western societies to the point that
it is of public health concern2. This de skilling maybe the
result of a number of factors - a reduction in the traditional
pathways of learning to cook, technological advances in the
production and availability of processed ready-made meals,
changes to social norms around cooking and eating, and
greater participation of women in the workforce3, amongst
other hypotheses.
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