Food Cultures - Home & Corporation Assignment

They way food is done in my family is it is very organized most of the time. When we have dinner we usually all eat together and make sure the table is set and the food is on the table and no one can start eating until everyone is at the table. When everyone is at the table we then say our prayers and then start eating. We also don't watch TV during dinner because it is a time where we need to speak to each other and share how are days went. I enjoy this very much because it allows me to feel connected to family, that we have at least a time of the day where we all connect. In the mornings breakfast is not like that, usually everyone is getting ready for school/work and people leave at different times so its hard to really be coordinated like dinner. For breakfast its more individual while dinner is more family orientated. On the weekends however breakfast is like the dinners, and people make different things and we all just enjoy being in each others company sharing a meal. When it comes to lunch that is when my food habits are more present, and from that I believe I am a mixture of the mainstream corporate way of eating and my families way. During lunch I prefer the fast and convenient food rather then the food that actually needs preparation, but like my family I like to be set up before actually eating the food.

I mentioned before about the mainstream corporate way of eating food and just the way food is done and that is basically fast food, convenient, easy to cook food rather then food that takes time to prepare. On TV and in movies the kind of food that is always shown are burgers, cakes, candy, fast food chains, pizza and other "junk food". It seems as if the food that is the fastest and more convenient to make is the cheapest while the healthier foods are more expensive; and that is kind of messed up because it is basically saying that it is going to cost you to be healthy in America, while they end up making money of the fast food still because when you are unhealthy you have to go to the doctor which is going to cost money and if your insurance does not cover what ever your sickness is then its going to cost even more money. It is all just a big cycle of paying sustain good health.