Ans: When we go out to eat at restaurants, we don’t know who the people cooking our food are. We don’t know how they live their life or even how they cook the food. If the person cooking our food has a polluted mind with bad thoughts, and we eat the food which that person cooks, our minds, too, become just as polluted. Along with not knowing the cook, the conditions in which the food is cooked is often dirty and filthy. Eating contaminated foods can also cause us to get sick or contract a very bad disease. Also, according to the Shikshapatri written by Shriji Maharaj, we shouldn’t eat in those types of places either. Finally, by eating out we spend a lot of money which could be used for better things. Also, we can eat the same tasty food at home, made by a cook we know, in a clean environment that we can see.