Weekend Eating-Out Falling Sick Loop Broken by COVID Stay At Home
                     Weekend Eating-Out Falling Sick Loop 
Broken by COVID Stay At Home
Satjit Kumar
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Weekend! It is a great time between Friday evening to Monday 
morning when people get time for themselves from their hectic 
schedule throughout the week.
Everyone waits for the weekend to chill or to relax either with their 
families or friends. Some like to stay in the home to give time to their 
family, cook their meal together, cleaning their houses, watch a 
movie on television, or play with their kids. Some like to go out for a 
movie, clubs, at a party with friends, for dinner, etc. Some prefer to 
go on a long drive, whereas some like to sleep. Everyone spends the 
weekend differently depending upon their mood or interest.
 
Most of people love outing. Clubs, parties, eating out is their most 
favorite thing to do on the weekends. The food ordered from a 
restaurant looks more tempting and delicious than the food prepared 
at home. It is ok to have outside food once or twice a month, some 
even have every week once or twice. But weekend eating outside has 
caused health issues far too often.
As people are staying home and eating mostly at home. They are not 
getting sick as often as they did earlier.
The food prepared in restaurants contains different types of additives, 
artificial chemicals that are harmful to our bodies. We don’t know 
what quality of ingredients they are using in the food. The restaurant 
business has become very competitive and pricing wars / discounts 
created by food apps have probably forced or encouraged restaurants 
to compromise on quality ingredients. 
Many restaurants are dimly lit and have great interiors. However, we 
don’t know about cleanliness, and the food served by them is 
hygienic or not.  If the food is only served with visible aesthetics but 
microbially infected. It is almost impossible to find out.
Driven by the desire to spend family time and give a break from 
cooking to the family members. Have we compromised our health 
and discomfort? People are starting to wonder.
There is only one advantage of eating outside that is – Different 
restaurants provide different recipes, also they have distinct scenery 
which attracts us and in some places the scenery, the music relaxes 
our mind. But there are more disadvantages to eating outside. These 
are:
1.All oils are not the same – oils like palmolein oil are cheap but not 
healthy. This oil is extensively used in restaurants.
2.Re-used oil or old cooking oil, is not good for health. When the oil 
is repeatedly heated it loses its viscosity.  Such oils make the food 
appear very oily and not healthy either.
3. The excess amount of salt and sugar added while preparing sauces 
and toppings increases the risk of high blood pressure and blood 
sugar levels.
4. Germs in the stale meat covered up with extra spices may cause 
frequent sore throats and cold-like symptoms
5. The storing, cooking, and serving of foods can all lead to bacterial 
and viral infections.
6. The various employees in restaurants could either be ill themselves 
or their bad hygeine could cause infectious diseases
Eating unhealthy food weakens our immune system and makes us 
more prone to diseases.
But now the situation has changed. That was the scene before the 
outbreak of corona. Before Covid-19 people were free to do anything 
they want. Because of Covid-19, schools and offices are closed. 
Schools have organized online classes for their students and 
professionals are doing work from home. Malls, restaurants, hotels 
are closed. We are stuck in our homes.
Our lifestyle has completely changed now. As tasty food is soo much 
important, we are now learning to cook those recipes which we used 
to eat outside. The advantages of having homemade food are:
1.Homemade food is more healthy and nutritious.
2.When prepared by self we used to take good care of the quality of 
ingredients used in it. The amount of oil, salt, sugar, species goes in 
it will be less than those in the outside food.
3.While preparing food we take care of hygiene.
4.Home-cooked food is a lot cheaper.
Now we can compare the outside food and homemade food. One can 
easily tell which one is better health-wise. It is so easy to see that we 
don’t fall ill as often with homemade food. In our struggle to find the 
seat in the food court or the busy restaurant – we probably sat in 
visually clean but germful tables. These situations caused
By preparing food at home we can save or money as well as 
ourselves from being sick. The loop of going out and having food 
then facing health difficulties is broken. Now people are learning to 
enjoy at home. Maybe even after the end of this pandemic, people 
will continue to follow the same habit for a healthy and better life.
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