12 Reasons Why Cooking Is The Ultimate Stress Buster
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12 Reasons Why Cooking Is The Ultimate Stress Buster

Because no one gets you like food does.

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12 Reasons Why Cooking Is The Ultimate Stress Buster
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Here are 12 reasons why you need to adopt cooking as a stress-relieving hobby ASAP:

1. There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

Food connects us all, and learning to cook can be the best way to follow a passion for food—ing something you love is bound to make you happy!


2. Ingredient-therapy is real!

Cooking with aromatic ingredients has been proven to reduce stress. The beautiful colors and shapes of ingredients and spices will also soothe your nerves and give you a sense of tranquility.


Remy knows what's up.


3. Chop the stress away!

Chopping, mashing, crushing, kneading, slicing, rolling, etc. are all common actions used during cooking that divert attention from stress and provide an outlet to vent out everyday frustrations in a most effective way!


4. Boost your creativity.

Cooking certainly involves a lot of creativity, and the more thought and care you put in your food, the better you’ll feel. Cooking allows you to be creative and have fun along the way.


5. Show off your skills!

Once you get good at cooking, there’s nothing stopping you form showing off those rad chopping or baking skills in front of your friends and family (and feeling good about yourself).


6. Cooking for people you love will make you happy.

Cooking for people you love like friends, family, or your significant other provides guaranteed satisfaction, and you'll get to share each other's happiness and stress over great food. Also, praise you’ll get from them for your efforts will surely make your day.


7. Cooking for a cause is Win-Win!

Cooking for a soup kitchen or making food for underprivileged people is definitely a huge mood booster and it does benefit to the community as well.


8. Be social and make friends!

Who says you have to cook alone? Cooking with friends and family is a great bonding experience and can lead to hilarious and memorable moments in the kitchen!


9. Make cooking a ritual.

Regularly cooking, making new dishes and discovering new foods will give “ritual status” to food in your life and will no doubt prove to be a constant source of satisfaction and happiness.



10. Binge on cooking shows guilt-free!

If you cook regularly, you’ll have more the reason to watch your favorite cooking shows that are no doubt exciting and add to your knowledge of food!

11. Food is an art.

Perhaps food is the prettiest form of art and being around art makes you happy. Makes sense, right?

12. You get to eat what you cook (and share it too)!

Finally, your hard work in cooking will always culminate in delicious, homemade food that you can enjoy and share with others. You’ll surely give yourself a pat on the back after every time you cook!

So get to cooking would ya? What's stopping you?




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