EATING AT HOME OR OUT

Recently in Turkey fast-food consumption has risen so rapidly that almost nobody prefers eating at home. And this trend damages not only people’s healthy but also Turkish culture. I think that those who prefer consuming fast-food and eating out to eating at home don’t know that compared with eating out, how many superior affairs eating at home has. If they knew it, they wouldn’t prefer eating out. Eating at home has so many advantages that I can’t explain all of them now. So I will mention a few of them. Firstly eating at home is more economical than eating out although there are people who are against this idea. We can cook more meal with less material. For example whereas we can eat only potatoes roasting with 1-2 Turkish liras, we can buy 1-2 kilos potatoes with that money and cook a few kind of meals with those potatoes . Secondly it is more healthy and reliable because we, ourselves, cook meal. Because we know what the meal includes but we don’t know what food out include and hence we can’t rely on them. They might be unhealthy and it is usually so. Thirdly while we are eating our meal at home, there is a family ambiance which is comfortable and sincere. I don’t know the other cultures but we, Turkish families, come together at meal, discuss family problems and solve the problem or share good news with family members at meal. Otherwise in this world in which ladies and gentlemen, almost everybody is busy with their business, we can never see each other except for meals. If we don’t practice these meeting as well, we will save neither term of family nor Turkish culture. We must eat at home so that we wouldn’t lose our healthy, money, culture and especially family. Some people may defense eating out and they may say that eating out is faster compared with cooking at home and cooking at home is wasteful. I accept they are a bit right but eating at home is healthy and nothing is as important as healthy. Fast-foods have no sustenance as doctors always say. In addition, we don’t know how the food out is cooked and what it is cooked with. We shall attach importance our healthy and we shall not rely on the food out instead of eating at home.