In this day and age it is quite common to purchase frozen foods that are easy to throw in the oven or prepare on the stove. My wife and I were doing this fairly frequently until we realized that I can often prepare a meal from scratch in the same time it takes a lot of the frozen things to cook in the oven or even the microwave.
If you live in Canada you will have noticed that all food products now have nutritional information on the labels, this can be quite an eye opener. When you prepare food from scratch you have greater control over what is going into your food. Usually pre-prepared foods are quite high in salt. Spice mixtures such as seafood, vegetable, and barbeque seasonings tend to have a high percentage of salt in them as well. When I cook I almost never add salt to the food and if I need a spice mixture I mix it myself. For those with high blood pressure using cayenne pepper in your food can help control the blood pressure.
If you live in Canada you will have noticed that all food products now have nutritional information on the labels, this can be quite an eye opener. When you prepare food from scratch you have greater control over what is going into your food. Usually pre-prepared foods are quite high in salt. Spice mixtures such as seafood, vegetable, and barbeque seasonings tend to have a high percentage of salt in them as well. When I cook I almost never add salt to the food and if I need a spice mixture I mix it myself. For those with high blood pressure using cayenne pepper in your food can help control the blood pressure.