They threw me here the topic of a zealous attitude to products. Because the economy in our time should be economical - food prices are growing day by day. Either producers of meat and sausages report that they want to make 20 percent more value, then producers of cereals, And I don’t want to think about how the price of the most ordinary vegetables, which used to have always been almost penny, is jumping.
But what is zeal and reasonable economy, and what is greed, or rather, avarice?
A colleague here told me that relatives who came to visit tried to visit her monastery with someone else's charter - they say, they don't count food, “works for the toilet”. And at their home it is not customary to limit portions and give out anything on the account. Cutlets are fried, which means a lot. The borscht is cooked so that everyone has not enough on a plate, if they want to add, and so that everyone has enough meat there, and not a plaintive little piece. Sweets and sweets are freely available. And so with any product.
Relatives had nothing against such layouts, in fact, but... they taught - they say, it would be right to fry one cutlet or a piece of chicken, and that's enough. They cited themselves as an example - their family is half the size (three people instead of six), but the cost of food is not half as much, but, according to the most conservative estimates, seven.
But here it is worth adding - there are restrictions not only on the amount of food, but also on the quality and composition. But the house was built. And the second are going. And these - "eat everything up." With their income, they say, it is no longer possible to live on two floors, but "to build a palace".
I don't like it when someone starts counting other people's incomes and teaching them how to dispose of them, but if you think about it, there is a rational grain in such reasoning.
In the end, zealous housewives, there, in ancient times, buffets were locked, sugar was given out ...
On the other hand, there is something in the counting of portions and the dispensing of products strictly according to the count... Abnormal. how to refuse a child who wants to eat two chicken legs and say - here's one for you, and not full - so catch up with pasta?
I can't do that, for example.
For me, a zealous attitude to food is to prepare something that all the household will eat with pleasure, fill up, and at the same time you will not have to throw anything away. Taking into account the budget, of course.
And to count and limit... Do not. also not mine.
What about you?