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. 2017 Feb 2;14:12. doi: 10.1186/s12966-017-0461-7

Table 2.

Cooking practices and meal planning practices (N = 40,554 - NutriNet-Santé 2014)

Non-meal planners Meal planners
N = 17,271 N = 23,283
% % P a
Cooking frequency <0.0001
 Every day, twice a day or more 28.79 33.60
 Every day, once a day 34.70 37.06
 Several times a week 27.87 25.30
 Once a week or less 7.14 3.54
 Never 1.51 0.50
Time of meal choice decision <0.0001
 One week before 0.32 7.69
 Few days before 6.02 28.54
 The day before 21.46 25.63
 During the day 41.72 26.27
 Just before meal 30.48 11.87
Having to think about what to cook is a constraint <0.0001
 Strongly agree 9.45 4.33
 Agree 29.52 23.62
 Neither agree nor disagree 27.40 27.04
 Disagree 18.69 23.46
 Strongly disagree 14.94 21.54
Meal planning frequency
 Several times a week 46.39
 Once a week 34.72
 Two weeks per month or less 4.07
 Not regularly 14.81
Meal planning duration
 Two weeks or more 1.18
 One week 19.77
 A few days 79.05
Meal planning period
 Weekdays and weekend 68.15
 Weekdays 22.83
 Weekend 9.02
Sources of inspiration
 Personal recipe repertoire 41.15
 Internet, apps for meal planning 2.53
 Ingredients available during grocery shopping 56.32

Boldface indicates statistical significance

aOn the basis of chi-square tests