TOEFL® Essay: Some people prefer to eat at food stand or restaurants

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Some people prefer to eat at food stalls or restaurants. Other people prefer to preapare and eat food at home. which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and exmaples to support your answer.

Eating habits are individualistic and are often developed in early childhood years. Eating habits are also related to one’s taste buds and food preferences. Our taste buds undergo a sea change as we grow up. From sweet to sour and spicy, a change in taste buds does affect our eating habits.

As the age old saying goes, “old habits die hard”. Taking a clue in the good sense here, eating habits if developed in the right way from the start would cause no problems later in life. I am of the view that eating at food stalls and restaurants differs from eating food prepared at home. My personal preference would be eating a home meal prepared fresh and with love. Moreover, for me, dinning at restaurants is an occasional thing usually for a change or when partying around with friends. It is not a usual habit though.

In my view, food prepared at home is thoroughly cleaned and cooked. At home, cooking is sometimes done with gourmet spices or with grandmother’s mouth-watering recipes. These recipes are pretty old and not readily available in cook books or the internet. On the other hand, dining at restaurants could be expensive in addition to the tips to the waiter and the service tax. Moreover, eating at home is convenient as there is no wait time involved. On the other hand, dining at restaurant could sometimes require valet parking. Further more eating at food stalls may quite often risk our health. Food at these stalls is normally cheap and not clean and healthy. In addition, eating at food stalls too would have parking problem if these stalls are at busy market places or in the downtown area. Most of all food prepared at home has personal touch. Moreover, It can be taken together with the family.

Furthermore, I would like to share my own example here. I usually cook for my family . Often my toddler son helps me in laying the table. We all sit and eat together and discuss the story of the day or even share some personal experience. This is one of the things that usually people wont prefer to talk in restaurants or food stall.

To conclude, eating together at home provides my family with the perfect bonding time and also helps my toddler son learn good table manners. It is indeed convenient and sometimes inexpensive. It is a good way for my family to share our love and spend quality time as a family

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