Re: Multiple dishes and Hadees e Nabavi
In my family, we mostly make one dish per day. So roti with saalan or rice with saalan or raita. We don’t make sweet dish often. If someone feels like it, they eat fruit as a snack. Sometimes, when there is leftover food, we’ll use it the next day.
It’s the same when we go out as a family. A 3-course meal is just too much food. We order a couple dishes to share.
The only times when we splurge is when we are hosting a dawat. I tell my mom not to go overboard but she doesn’t listen and usually throws a big spread (rice, naan, roast, kebabs, salad, raita, 1 or 2 saalans and 1 or 2 sweet dishes, etc.) which I think is a waste of food. No one eats that much. But she does it because there is the expectation that guests will take some leftover food home.
The thing that annoys me most is when people order tons of food at restaurants and when they can’t finish, they just leave it there instead of taking the leftovers home.
Also, I have heard of families where lunch menu has to be different than dinner menu. Or 1 dish is not enough and there has to be a variety to choose from. That seems like a waste to me (unless they actually like pehelwans and are able to finish everything).
I’m still trying to find the reason for the change of eating habits of society as a whole. from piyaz / lassi roti to sabzi, gosht, daal, raita, meetha in one go. Pakistan is said to be the biggest importer of cooking oil and related raw material. kar lo gal.