Do You Still Cook the Natural Way or Using the Instant Flavoring?

I cooked for a family of five for years. I had three sons with 3 stomachs each. I cooked for economy. Of course my cooking ended up better than anything you buy in any other form. Now I cook for two. At least once a week I cook something that causes the whole house to smell wonderful. But for the most part I cook as little as possible.

At our home, I am glad to say that we always use the natural way of cooking for our every meal time and it is really very good to eat that food. But now at hostel, I have seen different cafes which cook food by natural way but when I compare this to our home made food, it is nothing against them, the taste of home made food is really separate and you cannot forget that taste in your whole life...:) Have a nice day...:)

it really depends on my mood and whether i have the time or not... most of the time i cook using instant flavoring... but sometimes, i cook in a natural way as well... i agree with you... even though cooking natural way consume more time, but the taste is much better... and also, the satisfaction from it... take care and have a nice day...

We live in the country side. We cook our food in the natural way because artificial flavoring has lots of preservatives that can be harmful if over used and we like the taste of food cooked in the natural way

Really the natural way is good when you cooking for many people.If you work like chef for example.The food must been very close to natural.If customers want they can make his dish to their flavour always.But now I saw (don`t know about you) that a lot of people use instant flavouring in his dishesh.It`s a taste question.That`s why do the things how you like !

I still prefer to cook food the natural way rather than the instant cooking. For health reasons, natural cooking method is still the best. Although instant cooking is the fad nowadays because of its convenience but the artificial flavorings that is incorporated in the package i fear has health risk which may lead to serious illness in the long run.

I like to do my own seasoning. So many of the instant seasonings and mixes are very high in salt. Generally, that is not good for you and to me it seems that the saltiness covers up all the other good flavors.

I do a little of both actually. It really all depends on what I am cooking, and how much of a hurry I am in. If I have the time, I like to take my time and cook things as much from scratch as possible. However, if I am in more of a hurry, I will use convenient shortcuts, and instant flavoring whenever I can.

i AM AN OLD FASHION COOK. I cook from scratch as they say.It's the way i have been cooking for over 50 years & i don't like changes, lol.

All the cooking is left to my mother. For me, I cook maggi noodles or what some people call, instant noodles. For that, I use their flavourings. I know it's not that good but then, that's the best I can find. If for my mother, she would make anchovies soup, then put the noodles in and a little bit of the noodles' flavourings into it. But then again, I still prefer the natural way. It's obviously more healthy and will taste good when cooked the right way.

If I really don't have the time, and as usual I am always on the go, I can't help myself to prepare ready to cook foods or instant meals. I know that natural is still the best and cooking the food while using the manual way of gathering up the ingredients are always priceless but since I am always against time, I get my cooking into compromise, but I just see to it that I don't tolerate much on instant ingredients and ready made food. I always want the best for my family and healthy living for us, so I still suggest everyone to go the natural way and moderate on using chemically treated ingredients or with preservatives that can harm us.

I prefer the natural way as you do.When i do cooking,there is no soya sauce,no MSG etc.Though cooking cost my a lot of time,it proved worthwhile to do that.

My family would really go for cooking the natural way... I mean, living the natural way is far better than the instant way... Our doctor once told my brother to stop eating at fast foods because he will "fast die". I think it goes also like this, instant food, instant die. Instant foods are far less nutritious than organic foods or natural foods. They also contain too much preservatives that give no good to our body. If you want to be healthy, go for natural cooking. But if you think you're too busy to care for your body, go for instant food and flavoring. But sometimes we also use instant flavoring.. and if we do, we make sure we use a moderate amount only.

My family does it the natural way. But when I eat stuff like instant ramen I use the instant powder. Since I do not know how to cook it properly.