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New Delhi: The Covid-19 second wave in Delhi-NCR has sparked the growth of what has now come to be called Covid tiffins.
The Covid tiffins are gaining prominence as home-cooked, hygienic, healthy and cheap food options, especially for families where all members have tested positive or single patients struggling without support systems.
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New Delhi: The Covid-19 second wave in Delhi-NCR has sparked the growth of what has now come to be called Covid tiffins.
The Covid tiffins are gaining prominence as home-cooked, hygienic, healthy and cheap food options, especially for families where all members have tested positive or single patients struggling without support systems.
Some of the Covid tiffin initiatives have seen a massive jump in sales over the past month alone, chiefly because the food is cooked by those at home.Take the case of the popular ‘House of Kitchens’.
When it was launched online in August last year, it started its Covid service with just 11 registered home chefs on 15 April.
That number has now risen to 300.
According to Anupriya ‘Ana’ Singh, who launched the initiative, they have delivered over 2,75,000 tiffins across Delhi since 15 April.
“House of Kitchen was actually started in August 2020 when I noticed that many housewives had started cooking elaborate, special meals and wanted to sell them.
I had then set up a network of chefs within Delhi who would then deliver these special dishes to people who were getting bored of home cooked meals,” Singh told ThePrint.
“But the need shifted in the second wave when more and more people started falling sick and wanted hygienic, home-cooked meals.