Abstract Pandemic has impacted everyone’s lifestyle significant- ly. The change in terms of buying habits, daily routine, and a shift to consuming healthy food was commonly observed in most families and women being the plan- ner or controller for the house, the change began from her. Women in the families are responsible for taking good care of everyone and bringing in positive change in the family. And therefore we have considered them as our target sample segment. Our study focuses on the impact of the pandemic on lifestyle changes, eat- ing and shopping habits of women consumers, in the city. The research is significant because it testifies the change in consumer behaviour in the pandemic. The researcher has followed a stratified random sampling method for population sample, collecting data from 120 women consumers, as they play an influential role in planning meals and also shopping for their families. The segment included working women, housewives, and girl students and Structured Questionnaires and interviews were used to collect primary data while sec- ondary data was referred from research articles. Keywords: Food Consumption, Lifestyle, Shopping Preferences, Women Consumers Changes in Food Consumption, Lifestyle, and Shopping Preferences of Women Consumers, as an Impact of COVID-19 Shailendra P. Darekar*, Anuradha Karmarkar**, Sapna Sangode*** * Neville Wadia Institute of Management Studies & Research, Pune, Maharashtra, India. Email: darekar_shailendra@yahoo.com ** Assistant Professor, AISSMS College of HMCT, Pune, Maharashtra, India. Email: anukmk@yahoo.co.in *** Department of Management Science (PUMBA), Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, Maharashtra, India. Email: sapnanayak10@gmail.com INTRODUCTION We all live an environment which is dynamic in nature. People get affected by any minor of major changes happening around us. And as we all had witnessed a never ever situation recently in the form of COVID pandemic, how people will remain unaffected by it. In fact our lives took a 360 degree turn and every minute thing in and around us got affected. It was a panic situation for all. Atithya: A Journal of Hospitality 8 (2) 2022, 67-73 http://publishingindia.com/atithya/ And suddenly the entire focus of us shifted from leisure life to life saving. We realised the importance of health and immunity as life saviour, and the same time the pandemic also taught us life lessons as saving and live with minimalistic belongings. People started changing their food habits from junk to Healthy. In any family women as mothers or wives play a crucial role in buying of grocery and household goods and to plan the meals for the family? The research paper therefore specifcally focusses on the changes in lifestyle changes, eating and buying habits adopted by the women during the pandemic or as safety against the pandemic. Different age groups and strata of the society responded differently, some had to quit smoking, drinking was reduced, shift to homemade simple food by middle aged and seniors, storing of food for emergency and also to avoid frequent visits to shops for buying. One of the study revealed that 49% urban consumers started eating a late breakfast and 62% ate late dinner due to increased household chores (TOI, Dec 28, 2021). Another study reported favourable changes in dietary habits with an increase in fresh produce and home cooking and reductions in comfort food and alcohol consumption (Front. Nutr. 04 March 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2021.626432). The current research paper tries to analyse the responses received from 120 women belonging to working segment, housewives and girl students, pertaining to their eating habits and buying behaviour. LITERATURE REVIEW ● Di Renzo et al. J Transl Med (2020), Laura Di Renzo has published a paper on the impact of the pandemic