Why buy food online or rummage through heaps of precooked and ready to dine/ ready to eat food packets when making a simple meal at home (with whatever little ingredients you can lay your hands on) is more fair and nutritious, and a lot more satisfying? Why does the new generation like it so much and why the present day mummies, aunties and nanis don’t mind laying the dinner table with a generous dose of the above when the posterity will appreciate preparations that are made at home even more? I mean, why would somebody not trust his or her own instincts, experience and wisdom, and go on to finding respite in something that is no more than a quick meal alternative and has nothing more to offer? I wonder.
I used to dwell on these things often and tell myself I will never take something as trivial as a ready to eat meal to be the saving grace of my day. Seeing advertisements on the newspaper and on the internet I never stopped thinking why people were so obsessed with these fancy symbols of consumerism. Until the day when my mother got hospitalized and my life became far from normal. My world was turned upside down and I was left with a lot on my platter; more than I could handle.
Going to the market, getting rations and cooking them at home was out of the question and most of my time was spent in the hospital. And I didn't even have anybody who could do things on my behalf. Coming back home to an empty fridge wasn't pleasant either. It was only then when it dawned on me I could buy food online and that it’d come in handy in the emergency situation. I realized the advantages of ready to eat foods went beyond my perception of it. Not only was it useful for spinsters, bachelors, people staying in hostels and homemakers trying to sidetrack the monotony of the usual meals but also for people who were caught in a situation that was quite ugly and unfortunate. People with working spouses, NRIs wanting to get a taste of their roots, foreigners trying to explore a new cuisine and people who couldn't cook for nuts would all find it extremely convenient I concluded.
So that is how I learnt to appreciate the usefulness of ready to eat foods and started keeping a couple of them in the kitchen cabinet to bail us out in times of crisis.
I used to dwell on these things often and tell myself I will never take something as trivial as a ready to eat meal to be the saving grace of my day. Seeing advertisements on the newspaper and on the internet I never stopped thinking why people were so obsessed with these fancy symbols of consumerism. Until the day when my mother got hospitalized and my life became far from normal. My world was turned upside down and I was left with a lot on my platter; more than I could handle.
Going to the market, getting rations and cooking them at home was out of the question and most of my time was spent in the hospital. And I didn't even have anybody who could do things on my behalf. Coming back home to an empty fridge wasn't pleasant either. It was only then when it dawned on me I could buy food online and that it’d come in handy in the emergency situation. I realized the advantages of ready to eat foods went beyond my perception of it. Not only was it useful for spinsters, bachelors, people staying in hostels and homemakers trying to sidetrack the monotony of the usual meals but also for people who were caught in a situation that was quite ugly and unfortunate. People with working spouses, NRIs wanting to get a taste of their roots, foreigners trying to explore a new cuisine and people who couldn't cook for nuts would all find it extremely convenient I concluded.
So that is how I learnt to appreciate the usefulness of ready to eat foods and started keeping a couple of them in the kitchen cabinet to bail us out in times of crisis.
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