By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Many parents may be too busy to cook family dinners, but fighting the clock isn’t the only reason they turn to microwaveable frozen meals, a recent U.S. study suggests. “Ultimately, as a society, we need to increase affordability of healthy foods and meal planning and cooking skills training opportunities,” said lead study author Melissa Horning, a researcher at the University of Minnesota’s school of nursing in Minneapolis, “because it can be hard to make healthy dietary choices that involve cooking when the environment is filled with easy access, low-cost, prepackaged processed meals, which require little skill and effort to prepare.” The problem with prepackaged, processed meals is they tend to be high in added fats, sugar and salt, Horning said by email.