[Python] Writing to a Dictionary permanently

Firstly Im not sure if this is even the best approach.

So im trying to figure out how to write to a dictionary so that the new keys and values are stored even after I terminate the program. So lets say I have:

mydict = {'Name':'John', 'Favourite Colour': 'Blue', 'Age':'10'}
print(mydict)

mydict['Food'] = 'Chicken'

print(mydict)


Output:

{'Name': 'John', 'Favourite Colour': 'Blue', 'Age': '10'}
{'Name': 'John', 'Favourite Colour': 'Blue', 'Age': '10', 'Food': 'Chicken'}


The next time I launch this program and the dict['Food'] = 'Chicken'was removed. I would like food key to already be stored there. After that I would like to create another dictionary for lets say 'Bob' with these keys but give different values based on user input.

Should I start looking at making a database or is a dictionary a way of going about this?

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