Eating safe food keeps you healthy
It was 1 pm and the whole family had gathered around the dining table to check what was for lunch. Steaming bowls of daal (lentils), rice and baigan ka bharta (mashed eggplants) along with fresh rotis (homemade bread) were arranged on the table.
But this was not what Babbi wanted to eat. "I would rather have a burger," she wailed. Mother would not hear any of it. The lockdown had given her a chance to feed healthy, wholesome food to the family and ample time to explain why she wanted them to eat the food she cooked.
This is the age of hard sell: everything that is or can be on sale, is being sold aggressively through promotions, advertisements, media campaigns, claims of how good the product is, what health benefits it supposedly has, etc... and that also goes for the food that we eat.
