FOOD! at home and food from outside.

How do you do food at home? How do people in the U.S. mainstream do food - as shown in TV and movies? Please write a one page comparison of your family's foodways, your foodways, and mainstream corporate US food ways.

At home my mother cooks mostly everyday. its only a couple times a month that we take out. maybe 3 or 4 times in a month. my mother cooks with no salt or butter & uses alot of low fat meat because shes a health freak. we cook alot of food thats from our culture which is spanish. it consist of alot of rice & beans and rich flavors. we have big portions because we both eat alot of food. were big snackers so the food that takes up most of the kitchen are snacks.

I think people in U.S mainstream do food unhealthy. there thousands of fast food places which makes it really hard to make good decisions about what we eat. On TV there are constantly commercials for Taco bell, Wendys, KFC, McDonalds and Popeyes and when it looks really good it makes us want to go there and get some food. You have movies like Herald & Kumar go to white castle and Super Size me that are for and against unhealthy food.

Comparing my way of food & my familys way of food to Mainstream U.S. its very different. in my house everything is made from scracth and is made with healthier ingrediants then wat the U.S uses now. no preservatives and added ingrediants like coloring and sugar. my family like to cook authentic spanish food and the kind of food thats being sold now isnt very authentic. for example Taco Bell, its supposed to be mexican food but it isnt really because its fast food, its been modified to fit the american way of mexican. another example can be the Olive garden, its the fast food version of italian food, it isnt made in italy & served to you. My mom doesnt use commericals and advertisments to get me to eat dinner, knowing that its made fresh makes me want to eat it. thats why were the fattest nation in thw world.