Five suggestions for promoting a healthy lifestyle and sharing meals in public places

There is a saying that "diseases come from the mouth", which should be paid special attention to during the epidemic prevention and control period. During the New Year's Day and Spring Festival holiday gatherings, we advocate the separate dining system and the use of public chopsticks and spoons.

The separate dining system is a more fashionable and healthy lifestyle. Especially during the normalized epidemic prevention and control period, the separate dining system is indeed an important measure to pay attention to hygiene, prevent diseases, and conform to civilized morality. When dining at home, according to the physical activity and intensity of family members and combined with personal tastes, set meals and quantities, reasonable nutrition, and balanced combinations, and implement the separate dining system. When dining out, you should take the initiative to separate meals and promote the "Clean Plate Campaign". If there is any leftover food, pack it up and take it away.

In addition, Chinese cuisine emphasizes "color, fragrance, and taste". If each Chinese dish is mechanically divided into small portions, it will destroy the artistic conception and beauty to a certain extent. For example, the cooking method of whole chicken and whole fish is not very suitable for separate meals. Especially when a family eats at home, it is even more difficult to implement separate meals. If it is really difficult to achieve separate meals, try to use public chopsticks and public spoons. Relatively speaking, it is cheaper and easier to operate.

Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention reminds:

1. Use serving chopsticks and spoons, take food as needed, put it on your own plate, eat independently, and keep it clean and hygienic. This can effectively prevent diseases transmitted through the digestive tract and close contact and reduce the chance of cross infection.

2. It is recommended to use serving chopsticks and spoons to implement the separate dining system when families, friends, and colleagues dine together. When ordering takeout with multiple people, please make a note to add an extra pair of chopsticks and a spoon. It is recommended that restaurants fully implement personalized and recognizable serving chopsticks and spoons to facilitate diners to identify and use them.

3. It can be distributed according to each person's nutritional needs, especially for children, to balance nutrition, prevent partial eclipse, and develop good eating habits. Separate meals can also meet different tastes and season as needed.

4. For families who practice separate meals, it can quantify food and distribute it according to quantity to reduce waste. Even if you can't finish the food, the remaining untouched food can be easily preserved. When dining out, you can bring your own exclusive tableware.

5. Separate dining is still possible, so you can sit around the table and exchange feelings. Keep a certain distance from others when dining, and pay attention to basic etiquette, such as not making loud noises, and covering your mouth and nose with a tissue or elbow when sneezing or coughing to avoid splashing.

What are the benefits of implementing separate dining?

1. Cultivate good hygiene and civilized habits, reduce cross infection, and reduce the occurrence of foodborne and infectious diseases.

2. Cultivating good and healthy living behaviors also has far-reaching significance for reasonable diet, balanced nutrition, controlling food intake, and preventing chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and cancer.

3. It helps to have a reasonable diet, curb overeating, reduce extravagance and waste, and promote the transformation of a good social atmosphere.

4. Inherit the excellent traditional Chinese food culture, promote the development of food culture, and put forward new requirements for cooking methods, quantity, utensils, salt, sugar, etc.

Tips: Five specific suggestions for sharing meals in public places

1. In large-scale catering activities, for dishes that pay more attention to appearance, you can use a method similar to the Western way of covering dishes, first display them and then serve them. For example, the famous Suzhou dish squirrel mandarin fish can first show the fish with its head held high and its tail raised, and its lifelike shape on the plate, and then let everyone taste the crispy outside and tender inside.

2. For hot pot dishes, it is best to have a small hot pot in front of each guest, allowing them to cook and eat by themselves, which is both hygienic and convenient.

3. If you dine at a round table and there is no waiter to serve food, it is best for guests at the table to use serving chopsticks and spoons to pick up food and serve rice.

4. Why not combine Chinese and Western cultures and reasonably absorb the forms of Western buffets, buffets and cocktail parties to enhance the atmosphere of the party and achieve "sharing meals without reducing the atmosphere."

5. Keep a certain distance from others when dining and pay attention to basic etiquette.