Ladies, are you one of those who often bring a lunch box? Since entering kindergarten or elementary school, maybe we often see our friends bringing their lunch boxes—or perhaps we also bring them. Some brought sandwiches and rice with a sunny-side-up egg. Some brought fried noodles. It turns out that it's not just the kids. College friends and co-workers at the office also sometimes bring lunch from home. Bringing a lunch box to school or the office is a good habit to maintain health. Why? Check out the following reasons!
1. To Meet Our Daily Nutritional Needs
By bringing a balanced nutritious lunch box, we don't have to worry about fulfilling our daily nutrition. This is because we can adjust the portion of the lunch we bring according to our needs, while the portion we buy outside may be above or below our nutritional needs.
2. Consuming a Variety of Foods
We can make and create many food variations by bringing a lunch box. Today, through the internet, we can now find lunch box references that are unique and, of course, still nutritious. An example is in the form of videos on YouTube which can give us various examples of how to cook and serve lunch boxes for us to apply so that our food is more varied.
3. Ensuring Food Hygiene
Because our lunch is made by ourselves, we don't have to worry about the cleanliness of our lunch box. If we buy food outside, the food may have been exposed to vehicle dust and droplets from other buyers and processed in an unclean place. Ensuring food hygiene is important to avoid various diseases, one of which is diarrhea.
4. Cheaper
Bringing your food is certainly cheaper than having to buy food out. If every day we spend IDR 20,000 for one meal in a week, we can already spend IDR 140,000 for one meal a day. If we cook, we only need to spend around IDR 50,000-100,000 for food in one week.
5. Prevent disease
By bringing our lunch box, we can avoid various diseases. Starting from diseases caused by dust and bacteria that stick to food to the possibility of an allergic reaction to certain food ingredients when we accidentally consume them because we don't know what ingredients are contained in the food being sold.
Those are some reasons why bringing lunch from home is highly recommended. However, there is nothing wrong if we want to eat out once in a while, as long as we can ensure that the food served is clean and does not carry disease. So, choose nutritious foods that benefit the body, ladies!