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Cooking yourself provides variety during a boring lockdown

Cooking yourself provides variety during a boring lockdown

Cooking for yourself is increasingly the highlight of the day for many people. Especially now that the wet autumn weather and a second lockdown are causing a lot of monotony in daily life...

This is apparent from an international survey by meal box supplier HelloFresh among more than 9,100 respondents from the Netherlands, Canada, Great Britain, France, Belgium, Sweden, Germany and Austria.

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Monophony

Now that a visit to a restaurant is not possible for a while, we increasingly dive into the kitchen to unpack ourselves. A third of respondents say that cooking at home helps them shake up the monotony of everyday life.

Experimenting

Almost a third of the Dutch indicate that they often do not want to try a dish because they do not know an ingredient (27%) and are afraid that they do not like it for that reason. To experiment a bit, you can, for example, replace a vegetable from your favorite dish with a different type of vegetable. Does it taste or not?