Junk food can rightfully take its place as one of the many causes of overweight and obesity, not because it's necessarily bad, but because people, especially children, are eating it too often.

The main problem isn't even so much the junk food itself, but the lack of time for food preparation that sees stressed parents picking up or ordering in, instead of cooking. But as Jamie Oliver says, there is really no faster "fast food" than home-prepared food, because it takes longer to go and get or wait for purchased meals than it does to throw something exciting together in your own kitchen.

As well as home-cooked meals being faster than "fast food", they can pack a flavour punch that the junk is seriously short on. And with families under the pump with rising food costs, learning to knock up superb meals in just minutes can shred the family food bill and give the children in the family a true health advantage.

So home-prepared food wins on taste, cost, and nutrition. It's superior to junk food every possible way you could look at it. But you do need to know how to plan and prepare it.

It's early days, but FastFoodBank.com hopes to be able to help families world wide to learn how to put together the sorts of superfast meals that lead to great family health. There are just a few recipes at the moment, but with the capacity for families to add their own favourite fast recipes, it's hoped there will soon be a great collection.

A good example of great fast food is the first recipe uploaded to the site, tabouleh wrap with Eastern turkey. This dish packs a flavour punch that the whole family will love, is 100% healthy, takes only 15 minutes to prepare from start to finish, and yet is less than half the cost of the purchased product.

FastFoodBank.com is part of the Kind Communities Initiative, with a mission of giving families everything they need to support individual and family health and wellbeing, to drive down rates of overweight, obesity, diabetes and depression and give them their lives back in an overly hectic world.

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