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Mon Jan 9, 2006. LONDON (Reuters) - Almost a third of young Britons have passed off a ready-made meal as their own creation in order to impress someone, according to a survey by the Department of Health.
Women were the worst offenders, with 40 percent saying they had claimed food bought in a shop as their own, compared to 22 percent of men.
And seven percent of the 1,000 16-24-year-olds questioned said they regularly claimed credit for food they had bought.
The research, conducted as part of the department's 5 A DAY campaign to encourage people to eat more fruit and vegetables, also found that one in 10 had never cooked a proper meal for themselves because they "don't know how."
It also discovered that women were more impressed by a man's cooking ability than whether they owned a flashy car.
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