We all approach food in different ways. My mother said that her mother was the one that always made dinner for the family. It was the same for my father's parents. They did have different foodways though. My mother's mother wasn't very into cooking, she was interested and busy with many other things. So usually she was just making a simple meal to feed the family like a soup and grilled cheese, or meat and potatoes. My father's mother had to feed many kids so she made a lot of food and she enjoyed it because she's a caring person so she makes what people want to eat and gets joy out of feeding people. Her meals were usually some type of meat, some starchy type of food like potatoes, bread, a variety of vegetables and a salad. Both my parents say that the food their parents made was usually pretty healthy. Also my parents said that a big difference was that was when they were kids their parents always had to make food at home, food wasn't as easy you couldn't just go out and buy something to eat they always had to cook.
My parents foodways are different from their parents though. One difference I noticed immediately was that my father makes dinner a lot because my mother usually works until the time we usually eat at. Opposed to their parents where both of their mothers always made food for the family. I my own experience I know that my parents eat differently from my grandparents. My parents told me that they always like to make food at home because it saves a lot of money, and you can make something for much cheaper then you can buy it it already made. They told me that they base what they cook around: what is healthy, something that my brothers and I would like to eat, and what they like to eat. This is similar to their parents. I know that to my mother food is sacred she loves cooking and baking. So that is a difference from her mother who just made food to feed the family. A big difference that my parents told me that there is much more information on food and more research being done. They will often make salads for dinner because now they said that now they found that to eat meats every single day is not good for you which is what my father's mother used to usually do. That was a big point they kept bringing up for their difference in foodways from their parents because more and more things about food and what is good and what's not good for your health.
Lastly my foodways, I have very different foldaways from my parents. I do have a balance in my diet. I eat healthy and focus on doing that sometimes and then I pig out and just eat whatever I want to eat sometimes also. I like foods that I know are not good for me and I still eat them. I asked why my parents think that my foodways are different then theirs. I told them that I don't really care much about if my food is healthy but mostly I focus on what I think tastes good and what I like to eat. My father said he really thinks that's just youth. He said teenagers think they're invincible and nothing can harm them. He said that over time my views on food will change and I will start to see that I can't always just eat whatever I want. I hope my foodways don't change because I like eating whatever I want and I feel like if I can't I won't enjoy food as much because then it becomes just another thing I have to worry about instead of something I look forward to.
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