TOEFL® essay: Food has become easier to prepare.

[Kim Huen Suk]

Food has become easier to prepare. Has this change improved the way people live?

It is important to eat and prepare some food for human life.
That is why there are many recipes for food from French cuisines to Hamburgers around a world.

Recently, there are many kinds of food, which can be bought and prepared easily. It is the truth that easy food and brand new cookers improve our life. There are three specific reasons here.

First, It takes time to make food at least thirty minutes. In the morning, you wake up and eat something to be energetic at work, but you also should be on time at work. If you have some easy food like instant food, fast food and cereal, it would take short time to prepare and have food enough to start morning. We can invest time on our work with easy food.

Second, the number of working women have increased in these days, they traditionally had worked in a house doing house chores and taking care of babies. Preparing food has to be three times a day. Do you imagine what is like to prepare food every day for woman working and taking care of children at the same time? Fortunately, mega companies producing food supplies have been invented easy food and food supplies so that many moms can do their best at work.

Thirds, we always enjoy many kinds of food from restaurant course food to cookies. It is true that it helps our children’s growth. Child needs to have high calories and vitamins for their development. Of course mom-made food is the best to children in the side of ingredient level. However, they can be provided food easier without complicated recipes, and these foods can be eaten whenever they just feel hungry. In addition, these are not needed to use fire and knife, which can be harmful to children.

Food sometimes is the way to express a culture, so dedicated food taste good and look good. French food which takes a lot of time to enjoy and take many food supplies is one of our entertainment. However, with aforementioned three cases, easy food also makes fast, happy and healthy.

[Olkozian]

Hi, It is again Olga. I wrote another essay. Thank you for your help.

Food has become easier to prepare. Has this change improved the way people live?

We live in the 21st century. Many new domestic appliances have appeared, such as microwave ovens, toasters, marinates etc. It has improved the way people live and cook. Nowadays food has become easier to prepare because products have become cheaper and reachable, process of food preparation has become easier and quicker food has become more diversified.
The first reason is cheap and available products. For example, in ancient times men had to hunt, fish for a long period until they had enough food to eat for breakfast or dinner. It took much energy. Also not everyone could successfully catch a fish or an animal and divide it. So, preparation of food was difficult. Currently one can go to a market and buy everything he wishes. He will spend less time on it. As there is big choice of food, prices on it became lower, more affordable.
Secondly, preparation of food became easier and quicker. Nowadays, anyone who has money could go to the market or a shop and buy half-prepared frozen food. So, half of work is already done. Also, microwave ovens, marinates allow people to cook food twice quicker than cooking on gas or fire. Mixers shake and whip eggs or anything else for 2—5 minutes without difficulties. Doing it by hand takes 10 minutes. Thus, reduction of time to prepare food allows having more free time. This free time people devote to going in for themselves.
Finally, food has become more diversified. Thanks to new technologies we could eat fresh fruits even in winter. People invented new packages that allow them to keep food longer. There are several types of bread, dairy products, drinks etc. nowadays. Many new sorts of vegetables appeared thanks to genetic engineering. It is achieved by adding different amounts of different products. Although negative effects of it were not studied yet, the fact is that diversity of food has been widened and choice in products has increased.
To sum up, easier food preparation improves life of people. Although people could become lazier and eat genetically modified food I think on the contrary that people will devote their free time to development of their personalities. Thus the world will flourish and prosper.

[Kitosdad]

We live in the 21st century. Many new domestic appliances have appeared, such as microwave ovens, toasters, marinates etc. It has improved the way people live and cook. Nowadays food has become easier to prepare because products have become cheaper and reachable. The process of food preparation has become easier and quicker, and food has become more diversified.

The first reason is cheap and readily available products. For example, in ancient times men had to hunt and fish for long periods of time, until they had enough food to eat for breakfast or dinner. It took a lot of energy. Also not everyone could successfully catch a fish or trap an animal and divide it. So, preparation of food was difficult. Currently one can go to a market and buy everything he wishes. He will spend less time on it. As there is a big supply of food, prices of it have become lower, more affordable.

Secondly, preparation of food has become easier and quicker. Nowadays, anyone who has money could go to the market or a shop and buy half-prepared frozen food. So, half of the work is already done. Also, microwave ovens and marinates allow people to cook food twice as quickly as cooking on the gas or the fire. Mixers shake and whip eggs or anything else for 2—5 minutes without difficulties. Doing it by hand takes 10 minutes. Thus, reduction in time to prepare food allows us to have more free time. This free time people can spend in enjoying themselves.

Finally, food has become more diversified. Thanks to new technologies we can eat fresh fruits even in winter. People invented new packages that allow them to keep food longer. There are several types of bread, dairy products, drinks etc. Many new sorts of vegetables have appeared thanks to genetic engineering. Although the negative effects of them have not yet been studied, the fact is that diversity of food has been widened and choice in products has increased.

To sum up, easier food preparation improves the lives of people. Although people could become lazier and eat genetically modified food, I think on the contrary that people will devote their free time to development of their personalities. Thus the world will flourish and prosper.

Lots of good thoughts have gone into this one. Well done.

Kitos.
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[Ramiro]

Nowadays, food has become easier to prepare. Has this change improved the way people live? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

On the last sixty years and much more, as consequence of new technologies and invents, food has become easier to prepare. A typical plate of rice with meet, can be made in just some minutes, instead some hours from the past. These changes was influenced the life of persons, getting free times in the daily life that can be used on other tasks.
In the following paragraphs I will describe why in my opinion, the people live has been improved.

For example, if I have a busy day on my work, I can use just about 20 minutes to prepare and eat a complete sandwich or piece of pizza. Also this kind of food is really easy and fast to eat, without loosing much time. With these time gained, I can return to my work, and resolve the problem, in about an hour.

Getting back in time, some millenniums ago, the human was obligate to find an animal or a vegetable, to get food and eat. Hopefully for us, the human was improve on every time, and now that is just an “history class”.

Retuning to the main topic, the best invention from the last decades, to prepare rapid food, was the microwave. This great invention permit to warm the meals in seconds. There is not need to prepare the food at the time to eat, whit this artifact the cold food is warm on seconds. There is no doubt about more free time is equal to best life quality.

In conclusion, when foods gets easy to get and prepare, the results are a better life.

[KirstenJ]

With the acceleration of technical improvement, it is undeniable that food has become easier to prepare. Nevertheless, there exists a controversial issue whether the advanced-technical food has really improved the way people live? As far as I am concerned, the disadvantages far overweigh the advantages. Here followed the reasons.

One of the primary objectives for easier accessible food existed is to safe people’s time. For that reason, food is probably made in a hurry so that nobody can ensure they get the indispensable nutrition we need for every day. From a sustainable perspective, it is not acceptable. Let me take the microwave cookers as an example, which play an important role in people’s daily lives. With the help of microwave, food can be prepared to eat within 3-5 minutes, which is obviously quite convenient, but how can it guarantee the nutrition taking our health into consideration? Do you really think they can play a magic show for us, providing the tasty and rich healthy food? To be honest, microwave cooker is merely the heating machine, its only function is just to heat anything put into it.

Besides, to have meals done quickly, people prefer to stock a lot of canned and frozen food, so the additives are necessary, which is harmful to humans’ body. According to a research called “public attitudes towards food”, 64% of individuals concerned their health due to the way they eat, 15% of the rest said they felt better when they cook themselves. This report has drawn the public attention to the self-made food.

To a higher lever, as public prefer the fast-prepared food such as KFC, burger king, the cook skill will be easily lost in the wind, which means, to a certain extent, the national cook culture is losing away gradually. That kind of junk food will replace the individual’s mind, they will not be aware of the enjoyment of cooking. To them, food is a just a kind of things making them full.

So sum up, meals are not only the original resource for daily energy and health but also the spirit feast, we should take our bodies into account while persuading the convenience.