Nowadays, food has become easier to prepare. Has this change improved the way people live? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Food is vital thing in human’s life. To live, it is necessary to eat food. Today, cooking or preparing the food is not a problem for people of all ages besides infants. Because there are already many new tools or machines used for preparing food and ready-to-eat junk food. The development in preparation of food is highly effective for people and it obviously makes their life easier in some cases.
First of all, ready-to-eat food is very helpful for people who work against time to make their living, who prepare their food by themself. It saves the time and also helps to keep the money. In old days, preparing food was time-consuming work. For that reason, it was sometimes big problem for people who are hard working or for women because in most cases women prepare food for their family. For a person, who feels very tired after hard working day, to prepare the food is sometimes not easy. Now ready-to-eat junk food and machines, tools for used in preparing food really save the time and give the person more chance to have more time to spend for other things.
On the other hand, in old days, a person, who does not know how to prepare his food, often had went to the restaurants or cafe to eat. Nowadays, he can use ready-to-eat food at home instead to go out to eat and it gives him more comfortable feeling and enjoyment of eating. It also helps him to save money. Now also children can prepare and eat their food easily even though parents or someone else who cares them are not near them.
In conclusion, the changes in preparing food have many advantages and help people to have more gladness and happiness. It bring more chances because now people have a chance to spend time, which consumed for preparing food, for other more valuable or enjoyable things such as enjoy with family members so long or to go out with friends. So I think, easy-to-prepare food has improved the way people live and very useful in today’s busy world.
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