What have you been eating lately??

Since when have you been trying to push yourself and your kids away from the McDonalds next door to something more fruitful if not all that gratifying to the tongue?

This work is a small take on the eating habits and trends of the people in the NCR region of the country. See where you can place yourself in this list. Let’s pick this up one category at a time.

If you are a modern mother living here for a few years then I think the last year finally struck a chord inside you to try some probationary measures with yourself and your kids, and make the menu comprise more of organic and healthy food and cut down on the fast food.

If you are teenager brought up here and has been allowed to devour junk for the first few years after your continued insistence to do so, then I think this year you or your family finally started noticing your imbalanced diet and lack of proper supplements.

Now, let’s take up the case of people who have shifted to the NCR from smaller towns and cities within the last couple of years to study and work. After binging on this junk diet for an year or two you tend to notice that your belly is now officially bulging out from your happily low jeans. This is the time when you finally try some abstinence of cutting it down by a couple of degrees, because you can’t exactly vanish it from your menu because you are here alone and cooking isn’t exactly your forte.

Next in line are newlyweds who are actually still enjoying the old flavour of fast food because your pretty wife will not be saying or objecting much on your eating habits for an year or two and neither will you. Who objects to going out every other day and enjoying the love in a nice restaurant?

Facing some serious opposition are husbands who have had a longer tenure of something more than four or five years, and have one or two small monsters roaming around the house. The newlywed fever is long gone and wives don’t want you getting the little ones into the habit of junk. So either they have to kiss their KFC chicken buckets and Chinese goodbye or make them a hidden guilty pleasure from their wives indulged only out of the house and in company of similarly tormented men.

Obviously there is another category of happy go lucky people with no regard for the huge bills or their huge belly, and they munch till they drop. That is a little anti social but never the less, very gratifying.

A very significant other category, who are one of the major consumers of fast food chains are students studying in colleges with their major pastime being hanging around with friends. The time spend is equally proportional to the food intake as you can’t sit around and talk with a parched throat or an empty stomach.

We’ll keep up the junk talk but I think talking about it just worked up my cravings. So I will catch up with you with some spicy gossip next time.