This is something I noticed about other people at grocery stores when I am out shopping with my mother. When I push my shopping cart around the store, I notice other people's carts and notice what they buy. Mostly soda and snacks and dozens of microwavable food items with several fruits like apples and oranges. Although I do sometimes buy these items myself... I notice that roughly a good 85% of the people shop this way. I noticed the same thing a few years back when I was woking as a cashier at the same grocery store.

It just looks like people are either lazy to cook or just don't really know how to. In Europe, older women cook. My grandmother who has arthiritis and is almost 80 still cooks every day. I am also sure that there are many other women like my grandmother. Here, I notice people around her age buy the frozen Marie Calendar's meals, and any frozen meals that happens to be on sale that day. Is this a cultural difference? Are these people unable to cook? Do they know how to cook?

Our country has a problem with obesity... could this be one of many reasons as to why this is? People living off fast food and micowavable meals on a daily basis? I have friends in Europe, and they are all around my age or so and they know how to cook and prepare meals. From what I see here, I am not too sure if people my age would be able to make an omelette.

Pretty sad from what I see...