Welcome to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learner's featured post. The importance of food to the human body cannot be overemphasized. As we go about our day to day activities, we all need energy, and this energy can only be generated from the food that we eat. The food we eat can only come from two sources: either homemade or fast food (restaurants). We all have our preferences when it comes to choosing between homemade meals and fast food prepared meals. There are a lot of people who prefer homemade meals, and some who prefer to eat out for so many reasons. Some who cannot cook are left with no choice but to choose eat outs over homemade meals because whenever they prepare the meals themselves, the meals do not taste good.
Homemade meals are cheaper to prepare compared to visiting restaurants every now and then. Most of the time, these restaurant owners don't take their time to prepare what they sell to people. We all must have had one or more encounters where we ended up regretting buying or patronizing a restaurant. I bought rice once, and it was like kerosene mistakenly poured in it. Instead of her to bear the losses, she still brought it to the market and sold it to customers. I went there to complain and met others doing the same. She apologizing simply proves she was aware of what she sold to all of us.
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I have come across a lot of friends who grew up without learning how to cook, so they completely depend on these fast foods, and when there is no money to afford them, they are forced to just put anything together in order to escape hunger. For the fact that their homemade meals are always very bad, their preference is always the fast food meals over homemade. I do prefer homemade meals over fast food meals for a lot of reasons, though sometimes my preference depends on where I am. If I am at home, I only do homemade meals, but in school, I do both fast food and homemade meals. Especially when the activities are tedious and you have little or no time to cook, then I am forced to do fast food. Also, I really don't enjoy cooking, so sometimes I am forced to do fast food to escape the stress of cooking.
There are thousands of reasons why one should only do homemade meals if possible. I have had encounters with many local restaurants, and they keep giving me reasons as to why I should only do homemade meals. That way, I get to know what I am consuming. I visited a local restaurant once, and while eating my rice, a customer who ordered soup called the attention of everyone to the dead cockroach he found in his soup. Everyone eating soup lost appetite, and even we eating rice could not go ahead. Homemade meals are carefully prepared under good hygiene, but many of these restaurant owners do not really care about hygiene; after all, they are not the ones that will consume the food prepared.
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Also, some of these restaurants use ingredients that are harmful to health. While we were living in the northern part of the country sometime ago, an ingredient called white Maggi trended for how harmful it was to health, and in the north, a body was set up to ensure restaurant owners don't use it to cook for the public until it is confirmed if it is truly harmful or not. When the personnel of the body set up visit restaurants, they first of all search the waste bin to trace if there are empty sachets of these white Maggi, and then the restaurant owners are penalized. Funny how these restaurant owners then always dispose of the empty sachets in the burning fire instead of the waste bin and make the body believe they don't use it to cook.
Nothing beats homemade meals; you don't only get to prepare them like you want, but you also get to know what goes down your throat. They say we are what we eat, which makes it very important that we are careful about what we eat.
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