On a normal day, you wouldn’t find me eating outside but yesterday, I was late for work so I wasn’t able to have breakfast. At work, my colleagues decided to go out for lunch and I also tagged along. There’s this huge canteen where students go to buy food because there, you have so many different dishes to choose from. I went in for a rice dish hoping it would be good.
My hopes were shattered when I took my first bite of the food. The stew tasted sour. I was hungry and so I didn’t really have a choice. Halfway into my meal, my tummy started to hurt. I knew it was possibly from the food so I stopped eating and threw it out. Last night I didn’t sleep well cos that food I ate gave me a runny stomach the whole night.
Eating outside isn’t safe at all as I would always say. Unless I have tried a particular restaurant and I know their food is good , nothing will convince me to eat from there. Moving to a new place came with so many challenges but I didn’t expect the food to be different. When I first arrived here, I was still trying to settle in and so I would mostly buy lunch outside. For the first few days, I didn’t like that food and there always seemed to be stone in the food. I didn’t even eat outside for up to a week out of fear that I might come down with an illness.
Growing up, we barely ate fast food unless it was an emergency. Every day, we ate freshly prepared meals and we had very balanced diet. As they say, old habits die hard and I agree with that. Now that I am older and living alone, no matter how exhausted I am, I would always prepare my own meal. On busy days, I can get off work at around 8pm and I would still prepare something for myself. Nothing would make me patronize fast food.
Did you know that people eat food from food joints and restaurants and they eventually die from food poisoning. No one speaks about these happening but they are real. You do not know the condition or environment in which this particular meal was prepared. You don’t even know the ingredients they use. All you see if the food being displayed nicely and you’re already running to fill your belly. There are some restaurants who use rotten tomatoes from the market to prepare their stews. Some even reheat day old food and sell it out to people. We are really living in a scaring world.
Someone once said, the first rule of business is to fuck everyone else over. The selling of fast food and whatever is business. Most of these people don’t care about you. They’re just finding ways to push the food out so they can make their money back. No one wants to invest in something with no returns.
We need to pay more attention to our health and what we eat as individuals because we are what we eat. Cooking a meal at home wouldn’t even take you up to an hour sometimes. You get to save some money and also enjoy fresh meals at the same time. I’m very picky with food but I don’t know for others. In my view, home cooked meals are the best.
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