There’s no single answer to overweight and obesity, but one thing everyone agrees on is that we have to reduce the amount of junk food which is being consumed, especially by children.

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.

Home-prepared food is the fastest, tastiest, cheapest, and all-round best way to go - if you know how to prepare it.

From small beginnings, a new Australian web site hopes to help parents world wide to gain confidence preparing fast food at home by starting a “fast food bank” where people can freely upload their own favourite healthy fast food recipes and share others.

The very first recipe is called “Tabouleh Wrap with Eastern Turkey” and it packs a terrific flavour punch that the fussiest eater would love. At just 15 minutes from start to first mouthful, it’s a more nutritious alternative to junk that would cost twice as much!

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.