Food Culture

Compared to my family's eating techniques, Americans when seen through Movies and other Models of the perfect American image, we eat normally. In movies, a huge dinner is prepared and takes a short amount of time to be cooked, which always seems like a thanksgiving meal. The next day the same steps are taken. In my home, My mother cooks the food just as the average housewife seen would, and she cooks a different concept of food every other day. I say every other day because unlike films my mother would cook alot of food sure, but its not always wasteful, we either save some for tomorrow's dinner, or if no one doesnt want it the next day, we will cook something else, but the food is either refrigerated till someone decides to eat it or we give it to our pets such as my fat male cat and my two dogs. If we do that then we give them that food instead of they're regular cat/dog food. That is another expense we have buying they're food so if food is given to them we save money this way (i guess). My mother also tries to bake all of her food, such as chicken or things in that area, supposedly it is better for people. She also cooks everything at the same time, whether it is rice and beans with chicken (example), the rice is being cooked in a pot, the beans in a separate smaller pot, and the chicken underneath the stove top and inside being baked. My mother when bakng them also uses water i believe and not oil because it is unhealthy. Not saying that we always do it this way, not being a hypocrite but yes.