Those with deep pockets always feel that their annual (or maybe as frequent as they can afford) feast must have a plethora of spread culminating from all four corners of the world to announce to the world that they have arrived or still have excesses that they can waste for the poor hungry to save a square meal. They justify their action with rationalisation of cleansing their karma and the blessings of a contended stomach will stay on with the family for generations to come.
Food has always been the highlight of any function. Temples open their kitchen to the poor after an important prayer. The offering is looked by vagabonds and the peasant for a fulfilment of bodily need and satiety. The offers feel contended that they have fulfilled their divine obligation by offering to the needy.
Just look around us. There are most people malnourished than there are people fit. Malnourished meaning that the nourishment that they were to receive grossly exceeded what they were supposed to receive, hence mal-proportion. Not, the malnourishment of the marasmic kind!
Do we still have to have such lavish feasts any more? Now that we know now of what we did not know then and that we are not as mobile as we were then, do we still need the unnecessary calories? In fact, it appears that we are eating ourselves to illnesses.
Perhaps, we should consider attending a function for the fellowship rather than for the food. Try it! Entertain your friends during the next Diwali with your charisma and bare minimum of healthy organic finger foods. That is a sure recipe for your next open house to be bare.
Food has always been the highlight of any function. Temples open their kitchen to the poor after an important prayer. The offering is looked by vagabonds and the peasant for a fulfilment of bodily need and satiety. The offers feel contended that they have fulfilled their divine obligation by offering to the needy.
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Do we still have to have such lavish feasts any more? Now that we know now of what we did not know then and that we are not as mobile as we were then, do we still need the unnecessary calories? In fact, it appears that we are eating ourselves to illnesses.
Perhaps, we should consider attending a function for the fellowship rather than for the food. Try it! Entertain your friends during the next Diwali with your charisma and bare minimum of healthy organic finger foods. That is a sure recipe for your next open house to be bare.
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