Eat
at Home or Dine Out?
In Taiwan, there
are more and more people especially the young choose to dine out rather than
eat at home. Nonetheless, a number of people still prefer to eat at home. What
do these supportive concern about?
figure from 旅人Carrie愛漫遊
Firstly, they
make the decision to eat at home because it’s healthier. Nowadays, for the sake
of providing consumers convenient and low-priced food, the safety of process is
ignored. Although cooking requires skills and time, you can know what are in
your meals clearly.
Some people
think that eating at home is more money-saving. Meat, vegetables and other
ingredients from supermarkets or grocery stores are very affordable, and the
total cost of a homemade meal is much less than the cost of a meal at a
restaurant. Usually, people go to restaurants for splendid cuisine to treat
themselves better but if you do that too often, you will run out of money very
soon.
Others might
worry about the soaring price of the gas. Dining out certainly consumes lots of
gas that will destroy the nature and also leads to traffic jam. You can imagine
that in the small Taipei city, crowds swarming to dine out really cause
problems.
Age is one of
the factors involved. Most of the elderly have been raised with or grew up with
a family or household that was always cooking and was big on home-cooked meals.
For traditional Taiwanese concepts, it is good to sit down at the table and
have family dinners or be together to eat.
Besides,
for those who are going on a diet, eating at home can help you stay faithful to
your diet plan. When you are dining out, you will be exposed to greater
temptation to eat tasty but unhealthy food.
In
modern life, a big proportion of people value convenience of eating more.
However, to me, eating at home or cooking by myself is an amazing lifestyle.
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