Food For Thought !!!!!

Rahul and Rati were siblings. Rahul was brilliant in his study. Rati was also a studious and sensitive girl. One Sunday morning Rahul and Rati were complaining for breakfast to their mother.Their grandmother was observing them. She knew how to handle Rahul and Rati. Their mother gets tired while solving their problems. Today, they were arguing how other students have different food in their lunch box.

Rahul asked, "What is it? Mom, every Sunday you are making poha, upama or sprouts. Can't you make some different breakfast?'' Rati said, ;;Yes , Mom, my friend's mother making pizza, pasta,noodles.They are bringing it in the lunch box." "These are all junk foods and not good for health.I will not allow it in the lunch box." Mother replied.

Both were upset and they went to play on ground without eating. Their grandmother was wise and she knew how to handle this situation. She told mother do not

throw food in trash. When children came back at 11.00 to home grandmother called them. Firstly, she showed them beautiful pictures of nature on internet. Then she

showed them poor, hungry and malnutrition children from world's different country. While watching pictures grandmother asked some question. "what happened to these people? Why they are laying o ground? Why they are hospitalized? Are they really hungry?""Grandmother explained them, "Poverty and malnutrition are global problems. We not only produce an abundance of food, but we also waste an enormous amount, and it is appalling to see lakhs of people die of hunger". Rahul and Rati feel really bad for those people.

Grandmother told them this is my agony I experienced when I saw a small baby, boy or a girl, an old woman or man crying out for hunger and a rich person beside that place throwing food. She explained that "Gandhiji once told that if God were to appear to the millions of hungry people, it would be in the form of food." Grandmother explained, "Children before you complain about the taste of your food, think of someone who has nothing to eat. Place do not waste food give it to others because "ANAMPARABRAHMASHWAROOPAM''. Always love your food". Grandmother suggested them how to prevent food. she told children," We should store food carefully. We can donate accumulated food. Use old vegetables and fruits to create fruit salad or new sabaji. Always eat all food from your plate. If the food thrown away or wasted, it will cause harm to soil. Once they lose it, bacteria decompose them to produce greenhouse gas which cause harm to environment."

Children understand the importance of and they will not waste food in future. Then they ate poha, which made by their mother. They replied to their mother "It is really yummy it taste......." Their mother was surprised and happy. She could not understand how it happened. But grandmother, Rahul and Rati were laughing.