What do Japanese People do?

They eat a lot of ready-made meals. 

Japan is known for having a very healthy cuisine, they eat a lot of vary foods, and they mix them a lot in every meal, so that provides them with a very healthy diet... in general. When I first came to Japan I experienced this side of the eating patterns, I was staying with a lovely host family who had cooked meals almost every day and rarely ate instant noodles or frozen food. When I helped in the kitchen though, I realized that they did use some precooked food, but always complemented it in a way that ended making the meal like home made, never really just having the packaged thing.

But thruth is thst there are huge sections of frozen food in the supermarkets, and almost all of them have “cooked in the supermarket obentos”, even the 100 yen ones. Also, nearly 10 million rice balls or onigiri are sold at conbini (convenience stores) every day, and instant noodles are available in every conbini, not only supermarket, every day at every hour, since conbinis open 24/7. This impression came lately in my stay in Japan, but you can have almost any type of food in a ready-made package if you look for it. There are from gyoza or korokke, wich are more likely to be in the frozen food section, to pasta (sauce included), sushi or deserts.

My previous thoughts about japanese food have been certainly affected by this facts, while it is still tru that you can eat very healthy if you want to, it is also true that they have a huge market for frozen and ready-made food. Conbinis sell all sorts of them, onigiri, fried chicken, nikuman, obento... and some even have a resting space where you can eat them while sitting in the same store. It is a common image to see workers sitting in the curb outside the store, or hurried salaryman filling their bags with onigiri and energy drinks at lunch time. Of course, they could also have delicious home-made obento, which is what I though it would be the most present, but apparently it is way easier to just buy a quick meal on your way to work or at your lunch break, and I have to say that some of them are surprisingly good.