Table 4.
Reasons for not cooking during the study.
| Reasons | CMGa (n=125), n (%) | CGb (n=132), n (%) |
| Holiday, traveling, or vacation | 25 (20) | 35 (26.5) |
| Busy | 16 (12.8) | 26 (19.7) |
| Spouse prepared it | 1 (0.8) | 17 (12.9) |
| Not interested in cooking | 18 (14.4) | 14 (10.6) |
| Ate leftovers | 1 (0.8) | 11 (8.3) |
| Medical reason | 9 (7.2) | 7 (5.3) |
| Fixed other recipe | 17 (13.6) | 6 (4.5) |
| Did not go to the store | 5 (4) | 4 (3) |
| Recipe too large | 3 (2.4) | 4 (3) |
| Food preference | 19 (15.2) | 3 (2.3) |
| Ate out | 1 (0.8) | 2 (1.5) |
| Did not have the recipe | 0 (0) | 1 (0.8) |
| Financial reason | 0 (0) | 1 (0.8) |
| No reason provided | 2 (1.6) | 1 (0.8) |
| Personal reason | 6 (4.6) | 0 (0) |
| Confusion toward ingredients | 2 (1.6) | 0 (0) |
aCMG: culinary medicine intervention group.
bCG: control group.