The pressure is on.  How you handle it is extremely important - for your own future health, and that of your children or other family members.  How hard is it to avoid junk foods, additives, expensive pre-made meals and snacks?  Pretty difficult.

I'm not lecturing on a subject I know nothing about.  I did sales part-time until mid-'73, when I had to go to work full-time.  At first, I received little cooperation from family members in food prep and cleanup, laundry, and household chores. So little in fact, that after three years, on the point of collapse, I went on strike.  I found a family-run restaurant with unusually healthy food, opened an account and told everyone to eat there, or cook for themselves.  No laundry, no housekeeping...  until they kicked in.  It took nine months, but the situation finally became so intolerable that they called a family conference, and we divided up chores and responsibilities. 

We ate out, took turns cooking, (except for the youngest daughter, who I hadn't had time to teach to cook, but she micro-waved real well!) and tried to feed each other a healthy diet.  Hubby learned to turn out simple meals; son Mark became an occasional gourmet cook.  I burned a lot of food as there was always an emergency on the phone or at the door.  Eventually I made a deal with a single man who was a fanatic about healthy, home-cooked food and had a grossly inadequate kitchen in his tiny apartment.  I bought the food, he came over every day, cooked for all of us, while he ate for free.

As women work outside the home, often in tiring, stressful jobs, cooking a full meal is really hard.  Corporations are getting rich off this, offering pre-cooked or pre-packaged food that in many cases have undesirable ingredients, lack the needed nutrients and anti-oxidants, and have made us fatter than any other generation in history.  Here's an example: just running through today's newspaper quickly I found ads or coupons for the following "foods":