How to take food ?

Taittireeya Brahmanam tells, two time meals is required

 for the human being and if any  any food is not taken in

between that which it could be a Upavasa Phalam (result of fasting) .

When eating food one must face towards the East. 

If we do like that one will have the longvity. 

If we take food facing towards the South we can get the fame.

  If we take the food by facing towards the North, 

the desires will be fulfilled.

But one should not eat food facing towards the South and

 the West what the Vishnu Puranam and Vamana Puranam say.

Hence all the Sastras accept  with one accord that everyone

 should eat the food by facing towards the East.

One should not sit on the leaves or on the iron planks

 (low stools) and eat the food.

Who wants to earn or get money , he must eat the

 food on  the leaves of either Banyan , or Calotropis gigantea

(Arkah in Sanskrit Language) or Pipal (holy fig tree)

(Aswatha Vrukshah in Sanskrit language) or Leucas aspera or

Pungam tree called  Pongamia giabra.

The Renounced Sanyasis( Religious Mendicates) must

 take their food on the leaves of tree called flame of the forest or

Butea frondosa ( Palasah in Sanskrit language).

Before eating and finishing the food one should do the

Achamanam (sipping water in driblets as part of religious oblation).

Before eating our food we must have to 

do the salutation with joined hands.