Cooking yourself a lot saves money, prevents diseases such as cancer and protects the environment.
A professional chef will tell you what to look out for.
Are you one of those people who don't like swinging the wooden spoon yourself?
Ex-star chef Franz Keller advocates cooking more often yourself.
If you cook yourself, you usually eat more healthily because ready-made meals contain more fat and sugar than homemade ones.
Cooking should become more natural again, says Keller - and has a few tips ready to motivate you.
In the city in particular, temptation lurks around every corner: those who walk or drive home after work in the evening often come across countless restaurants and snack bars.
The plan to cook at home * is quickly forgotten.
But that's exactly what people should learn again
, says ex-chef Franz Keller, who now works as a farmer.
Preventing diseases such as cancer and saving money: That speaks for evening cooking
In our hectic world we would have rationalized a healthy diet away
and made food a minor matter.
That is neither good for our health nor for our satisfaction, quotes Focus Keller from his new book.
In an interview with Focus Online, the expert says: "For me, real food means that you make yourself as much as possible. Even if you don't cook all the time, what you make yourself is still better than what you buy ready-made or half-finished ".
The problem with ready-made products is obvious: they contain too much sugar and hidden, low-quality fats * that make you sick in the long run.
"
It's terrible that no more people realize that they can avoid many diseases if they eat properly,
" said Keller.
The connection between the development of diseases and improper nutrition has long been proven. For example, unhealthy fats promote silent inflammations in the body that promote chronic diseases such as diabetes and cancer *.
But hobby cooks not only live healthier,
they also go easy on their wallets
.
Anyone who likes to order from Indians or Italians or go out to dinner knows that in the long run it costs a lot.
Simply pre-cook!
Parents of young children or employed people generally want one thing above all: to spend little time in the kitchen.
The solution: boil large amounts that you freeze and reheat if necessary.
Perfectly suited for the lunch break outside the home: a leak-proof lunch pot.
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"I don't need strawberries for Christmas" - buying regionally saves resources
Franz Keller recommends the following to amateur cooks who want to eat healthy and balanced food:
"Good food is created through your own preparation and,
if
possible, from
staple foods bought with confidence
. We should go according to the seasons. That means I don't need strawberries for Christmas," says Keller.
Those who
buy regionally and
pay attention
to a balanced mixture
of animal products, vegetables and fruit not only eat healthily, but also protect the environment.
Because anyone who constantly eats avocados from South America *, pears from South Africa or other foods with long transport routes is doing nothing for their ecological footprint.
You can find
fresh goods
mainly at weekly markets and directly from local farmers.
"
You can also eat a decent vegetarian diet
.
You
just have to be more careful that no important nutrients are missing," says Franz Keller.
When shopping, make sure that you use
mostly unpackaged products
, so avoid packaging waste.
You should not save on animal products
.
Those who choose cheap meat, cheap sausage and inexpensive cheese indirectly favor unsuitable animal husbandry and unfair working conditions.
(jg) * Merkur.de is part of the Germany-wide Ippen digital editorial network
.
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