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Nuremberg (dpa) - The lockdown is also a challenge for many from a culinary point of view.

Enjoying a delicious menu in a restaurant at the weekend or sitting together with your colleague in the canteen during the lunch break is no longer possible.

If you don't want to order the delivery service all the time, you have to take care of yourself - in addition to home office, homeschooling and childcare.

But eating is more than just being full.

Is the attitude to life falling by the wayside?

COOKING or at least preparing food yourself, everyone has to do that more often in the Corona crisis.

Many people now also have more time and inclination to try out new recipes and experiment with ingredients.

This is also shown by a look at social media, where influencers proudly present themselves with their creations.

While banana bread and sourdough bread were among the big FOOD TRENDS in the first lockdown, the tortilla sandwich is now the hit on Instagram and Tiktok.

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No wonder, because cooking is still one of the few hobbies with which you can spend the many dreary evenings without a cinema, theater or party.

In a representative study for the cooker box supplier “Hellofresh”, 42 percent of the 1000 respondents in Germany and Austria stated that cooking helps against everyday frustration in the Corona crisis.

At the same time, however, the participants also said that it is getting more and more difficult for them to get inspiration for new dishes.

The demand for COOKBOOKS and COOKING PAGES ON THE INTERNET is correspondingly high.

Germany's largest bookseller, Thalia, is particularly noticing a greater interest in healthy, sustainable and regional nutrition.

Books with complex and time-consuming recipes are also more popular than before the pandemic, said a spokeswoman.

At the same time, ONLINE COOKING CLASSES are booming.

The Munich platform Miomente, which organizes cooking courses throughout Germany, has also been offering them digitally since late summer.

“In any case, we can see that there is a greater interest in cooking yourself and, because you are at home every day, also doing something different,” says managing director Sabine Engel.

Cooking courses with exotic cuisine or when it comes to something that is more complicated like sushi or macarons are particularly well booked.

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BRINGING THE RESTAURANT HOME - is not quite as atmospheric as going out to eat, but more stylish than the delivery service that is currently often used.

Many restaurants offer high quality pick-up menus during lockdown.

This is also the case with Mobile Kochkunst in Nuremberg, which puts together a weekend package with salad, soup, main course with meat and side dishes, and dessert every Friday.

"Most of them are happy that they get a change," says owner Gabriele Hussenether.

In her cooking school, she usually brings many people together around a blackboard.

That is why she thinks that the menu to go is missing the essentials: the experience of going somewhere to eat and meeting people.

Families, on the other hand, now inevitably eat together more often.

But for the parents, meals together can become pure STRESS, because in addition to work, childcare and homeschooling, they now also have to cook regularly - of course as healthy and varied as possible, which the children do not always appreciate.

The German Nutrition Society therefore advises you to be more relaxed.

"A warm meal every day is desirable, but not absolutely necessary in order to have a balanced diet," says managing director Kiran Virmani.

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The fact that no lunch is currently being served at school hits poor families especially hard.

Usually their children get their food there for free.

At the same time, offers of help such as the food banks are closed or only available to a limited extent, criticizes Michael David from Diakonie Deutschland.

The Hartz IV rates are too low to feed a child well with them alone.

For children under 14 years of age, 80 euros per month are provided for food.

That is less than 3 euros per day.

“The problem would be easy to solve if the amount that normally goes to the school caterer is now paid to the families,” he says.

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