Step 6: Should we waste Food or Just Stuff it in our body?

Last year, I visited a temple with my husband. The management at the temple offers simple lunch of dal, roti, subji, rice, raita and some salad to its devotees. We took a plate from the stand and waited in a line for our turn to get food. We sat down to have our lunch. There was a thin old man sitting next to me. Before staring to eat, he closed his eyes and murmured something( I am guessing he said some prayers). Later he took out one morsel from each - dal, rice, subji, roti, raita and salad and kept it aside and then started eating. He finished rest of his plate but did not touch the food he had taken aside in the beginning. After washing hands on his way out, I politely told him that I had been observing him and why he did that. He said that the food he had kept aside was for the Gods and he does this every time he has food.

I smiled. I had got the answer. Today we eat till our stomachs are full and bursting. Let his reason be whatever, but the old man had definitely shown that one should always eat little less than his/her hunger.

So should we waste food? By all means No. Whenever possible we should not waste food. Try to serve yourself little lesser than your hunger. I do not recommend eating out, but in restaurants, try to order less or share food or carry it with you at home. At home cook lesser quantities, eat fresh.

And after following all this if you still have some food left in your plate and you know you have eaten enough, then do not stuff yourself. What is the point in stuffing your self and growing fat just because there are starving kids somewhere in the world? What good is your becoming fat going to do to those starving kids? You can send a picture of yourself fat to these starving kids with a note saying " hey guys at least you know that the food is not getting wasted. I am having it " Does this make sense?

So the point to remember is eat only as much as you really need at that time. In order to do this, take small portions of food in your plate at a time. Don't feel shy to say "NO" when you don't need any more food. You can store that food in your refrigerator instead of storing it in your body.

-Geeta
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Dear Obsessivemom.. I totally agree with the saying you have posted Its so true..

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Hey Hridhaya.. Thank you for the encouragement!! Yea.. I have kinda stopped blogging.. I tried it for a couple of days.. Now I prefer posting on threads... But it is a good idea to start back though... Let me give it a try! Dont know when though You are a true sweetheart to pour in such kind words on a long lost blogspot... thank you for that