Table 2.

Potential strategies to increase consumption of hand prepared food

Mechanism of action	Potential strategy
Household
Decrease time burden of preparing food at home	Affordable, nutritious meal kits
Increase household supply of predictable time	Maximum working hour mandates
	Regular working schedules
	Stable employment contracts
Increase affordability of less processed foods and ingredients	Consumer facing taxes and subsidies
	Producer and manufacturer facing taxes and subsidies
Increase access to adequate cooking facilities	Building codes incorporating adequate kitchen facilities
Increase affordability of cooking fuel	Fuel price controls
Communities
Increase availability of affordable, nutritious hand-prepared food	Community kitchens and meals
	Phone based apps to share spare meal portions
Retailers
Increase availability of affordable, nutritious hand prepared food	Support use of less processed ingredients by street food vendors
	Mandate reporting of ultra-processed foods sales as a proportion of all sales
National
Increase availability of affordable, nutritious hand prepared food	Food procurement policies