▶ Your Answer : Some people presume that eating outside is convenient than eating at home. However, I am certainly sure that the advantages of eating at home far outweigh ones of eating outside because people can save money and get closer to each other. First of all, eating food at home enables people to save money. This is attributed to the fact that by doing so, they do not have to spend money on unnecessary things, such as gas, parking fee or transportation fare. Moreover, compared to cooking at home, eating outside is inclined to cost us a great amount of money. According to a study conducted by Seoul National University of Korea in 2007, with the spread of the overall shrinking economy, most of the restaurants has increased food prices by 30 percent over the past two years. Not only that, unlike before, they tends to cost customers Value-Added Tax in order to raise their income. Contrary to this, if people cook and eat at home, they can save money by buying cheeper cooking materials. They can control their regular expenditure. This implies that eating outside has a such direct correlation with a luxurious expenditure that people can get to save money by eating at home. On top of that, eating togther at home allows family members to build a closer rapport. This is due to the fact that as modern society is increasingly becoming competitive and specialized, today's parents, even mother are unlikely to have enough time with their children. This situation makes them become estranged from one another. Besides, eating together at home is more convenient for them to make it than going out to eat at a restaurant if each member could be busy. According to the Ministry of Education of Korea in 2009, the number of working mothers had increased geometrically over the past decades. Hence, the amount of family time had seriously decreased. This means that eating at home can be helpful for family member to get closer to each other. Therefore, I suggest eating together at home can be a solution to today's family problem. That is what I think its advantages. To sum up, contrary to eating outside, eating at home with family members can play a significant role in keeping them closer to one another and saving money by not letting them spend on unnecessary things. |