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Ready meals will play a big part, I agree. In the past they had problems with quality/taste and healthiness. But new home technology(instant pot,combi-ovens,
by petra 7y ago
Ready meals will play a big part, I agree.
In the past they had problems with quality/taste and healthiness.
But new home technology(instant pot,combi-ovens, new microwave tech) combined with better frozen food, or different logistics that would enable chilled meals - could offer healthy, restaurant quality meals.
And there's also a chance that the cost difference between ready meals and cooking at home will become very low.
- OJFord 7y agoOh I'm not saying they're not awful, and I don't buy them - just that it seems weird to discuss how we're going to not have kitchens and someone else will cook our food, without mentioning that a lot of people already live like that with ready meals. A microwave needn't have it's own room called a 'kitchen'. I particularly thought of it because the graph shows the same change across income groups, except that it's time-shifted so that it really got big in the top bracket earliest, in the '70s, then the middle income group in the '80s, and finally the bottom bracket in the '90s. If ready meals were included, I suspect it would look more level, or at least bring up the lowest income group.