{"id":9469,"date":"2010-08-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/08\/29\/only-vegetarian-food-at-commonwealth-games\/"},"modified":"2010-08-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-29T12:00:00","slug":"only-vegetarian-food-at-commonwealth-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/08\/29\/only-vegetarian-food-at-commonwealth-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Vegetarian Food At Commonwealth Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/newdelhi\/Only-veg-for-volunteers-cops\/Article1-591401.aspx\">www.hindustantimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 25, 2010: About 22,000 volunteers, workers and almost an equal number of security personnel to be deployed at the venues of the Commonwealth Games will observe complete vegetarianism. <\/p>\n<p>To cut costs, the Organizing Committee (OC) has opted for vegetarian items, to be served cold in packets, at a cost of around US$2.50 per head per day. The caterers will supply 40,000 such packets every day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Storing and serving non-vegetarian food in packaged form is difficult at the venues. So, we have opted for only vegetarian boxes. &#8220;But it won&#8217;t be less tasty or less in variety,&#8221; Sanjeev Mittal, director general in charge of catering at the venues said.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the hundreds of performers, brought in from across the country for the opening and the closing ceremonies, might also have to eat the same food for about a month. The Ceremonies Functional Area &#8212; which has not yet decided on any food supplier &#8212; is considering a similar food option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.hindustantimes.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 25, 2010: About 22,000 volunteers, workers and almost an equal number of security personnel,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}