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Table 2 Cooking practices and meal planning practices (N = 40,554 - NutriNet-Santé 2014)

From: Meal planning is associated with food variety, diet quality and body weight status in a large sample of French adults

 

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

 
  1. Boldface indicates statistical significance
  2. aOn the basis of chi-square tests