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