Society Today and Convenience Eating
In today’s society, convenience and easiness seem to be almost everything. Especially in eating and cooking. One of the easiest ways to eat and cook is frozen meals. You buy it, throw it in the freezer until your ready. Then when your ready, you pull it out and pop it in the microwave. And bam! Instant meal.
At first, it may seem like frozen meals are not that bad a choice. I mean their low in calories and easy and the foods in them seem pretty good with veggies and things. It can’t be that bad, right?
Sure they may be low in calories and have vegetables, but what else is really in them. You need to think about more than just calories when you chose what food to eat. You need to be sure and think about what else may be in your food.
Problems with the Easy Way
Preservatives
Most frozen meals are chalked full of preservatives. They have to sit in the store for forever before you buy them. Then they sit in your freezer forever before you eat them. After all that they have to still be good for you to eat them. After all, that’s one of the major selling points of frozen meals; their shelf life.
Sodium
Another thing that frozen meals have a lot of is sodium. Now, there is not necessarily anything inherently bad with salt, but too much of anything is a bad thing. Adding a ton of salt is a form of preservation. So, even if they don’t have a whole lot of the artificial preservatives they may likely have a whole lot of sodium instead.
Sugar
Surprisingly, or not, depending on the meal, frozen meals can also have more sugar than you’d expect. And, of course, we all know processed sugar is not a very good thing. Sugar is also a preservative, like salt. If it doesn’t have artificial preservatives they may sugar as well as salt.
Calories Aren’t Everything
It can be difficult, sometimes, to make the best healthy choices. Something important to remember is that we need to look at more than just calorie count when choosing our foods. Nutrition value and additives are also very important. We need to make sure that our foods don’t have too many harmful chemicals and additives.