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Don't waste your food in restaurants | Doggy Bags
Satish is a software engineer, works for a multi-national company. He is a food lover. Every weekend he hits one of the best restaurants in the city along with his wife and two children. After spending 2-3 hours there, his two children not willing to eat any more. Then, he asks the waiter for a doggy bag to take home leftover food served to them. But most of us struggle with this idea.
Doggy bag is used for carrying home food that is leftover from a meal eaten at a restaurant. There is no such shame attached to doggy bags in the US, where they are clearly offered on a menu or freely handed out by the restaurant staff as part of the service.
Doggy bag is a rarely heard request in our country. We are feeling shyness about appearing to be greedy. In India up to 40% food rots on the way to market but we don’t help reduce the amount of food thrown away.
Restaurants in France are now legally obliged to provide doggy bags if requested by diners, in a move to cut food wastage. The new regulation, which came into force on New Year’s Day, applies to restaurants serving more than 180 meals a day. It is aimed at encouraging the French to overcome their reluctance to eat their leftover pot au feu (a boiled dinner of meat and vegetable) or coq au vin (Chicken in Red Wine) at home the next day. The French government wants to reduce the seven million tonnes of food thrown away each year.
Britons are reluctant to ask for a doggy bag regardless of how much is left on their plate. Paul Buckley, senior lecturer of consumer psychology at Cardiff School of Management, says doggy bags have an image problem in the UK.
"What others think and social conformity puts pressure on you as a customer. Anything they think poor people may do, they won't.”
"Others will ask for doggy bags and make excuses. They might want the thing to eat at home the following day but will say, 'It's only for the cat'."
"If every single human being on this planet had enough food, it would change our societies. It would stop wars, put an end to suffering and even change the course of human history." -- Selina Juul (Founder of Stop Wasting Food movement Denmark)
There's nothing embarrassing about asking for a doggy bag. Waste is no more a symbol of wealth and nobility.
Please share this article with your family and friends to create awareness and sensitize them against wasting food.
Source: The Telegraph-UK, BBC
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
How to make a model Clock with paper plate
How
to make a clock by your own? School Crafts
Everyone knows that making a model clock is very easy. However, making it within a short time is important. So, I have explained here to make a clock with a stryofoam plate in a short time.
Remember: Proper guidance of parents is required while using sharp objectives and tools.
Items Required:
- Styrofoam (Thermocol)Plate
- Push Pin
- Colorful number stickers (Available at Stationery shop)
- One Cool-drink straw
- Cellophane tape
- Scissors for cutting straws
- Pencil, eraser and ruler for marking
- Water Colors/Glitter glue to design the clock (optional)
Procedure:
- Take the styrofoam (thermocol) plate, mark the center point on back side by drawing one horizontal and vertical lines.
- Mark the plate with pencil to stick the numbers of the clock. This is very important to maintain the equal distance between the numbers of the clock.
- Stick the numbers as shown in the image
- Fold the straw to the center and cut it straw in to two parts
- Take one piece of straw and cut it again in to two parts to make short hand-needle.
- Insert the pin into the straws as shown in the image
- Bend the pin carefully and tape it properly
- Now you can make some designs as shown in image or you can apply your creativity to make it more attractive.
- Your model clock is ready
- But hold it with care!, It can be damaged due to its light weight.
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