New Delhi, Aug 30: THERE IS a world of difference between eating well and eating properly. While eating well is a term used to compliment big eaters, eating properly entails replenishing energy resources. In today's competitive world, people hardly have time to cook elaborate meals.

Grab-a-bite and take away culture has made more and more people depend on hotel food.

But is outside food safe? That is what we need to worry about, especially when we know that vegetables, fruits, and crops get dunked in pesticides and fertilisers.

Regular hotel-food eaters find it a problem during festivals. For them, festivals are full of hassles, not to mention, the deluge of friends and relatives, who have to be feasted with the appropriate traditional dishes in the appropriate quantities. But, this time around the Gowri-Ganesha festivals may not be too much of a bother for Bangaloreans. Right Caterers, a unit of "Nammura Hotel" in J.P.Nagar, has come up with a range of special dishes for the season.Their festive menu includes avalakki payasa, genasina payasa, appi payasa, paradi payasa, and 30 other varieties of payasa apart from modaka, appam, chakuli, karjikai, sukkinunde, kotte kadubu, pancha kajjaya, a variety of holige, chutneys, and so on, all numbering 108.

These items will be sold in litres and kg. The facility will be open from August 30 for 10 days till Anantha Chathurdashi.

"We have thought of this special service so that students, employed people, and housewives can celebrate the festival without any hassles," say G. Srinivasa Rao and his brother, Prabhakara Rao, who run Right Caterers.

Special care has been taken to include almost all South Indian dishes in the menu so that Telugu-speaking people, Tamilians, Keralites, and Kannadigas come away happy.
A separate festival sale counter will be opened at the premises of Right Caterers at No. 65, 21st `A' Main, J.P.Nagar II Phase (ph: 6491188).