Eating

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We like to eat.

We must because we do it all the time. We go to others houses taking food and then eat. We come home from work and eat. We go on vacation and eat. We wake up in the morning and eat. We eat when we date. We eat when we go to funerals. We eat all the time.

Travel experts advertise the wonderful eating-places in foreign locations to lure us. Restaurants on every corner offer us a variety of cuisines to please our palettes. Television offers us a stream of cooking shows interwoven with commercials on every fast food stop to wet your whistle.

We designate a single room in our house to prepare and another room to eat. We eat three meals a day and then some. We have an eating triangle to show the proper foods we should be eating. We take additional medications to supplement our lack of eating right.

Every day eating demands bombards us. We store more food than we can possibly eat and the farmers and producers make more for those who can afford it.

Our obsession with eating brings out thousands, maybe millions of cookbooks to force us to experiment with more ingredients than our mothers taught us. Utensils and appliances and other gadgets sparkle at us tempting us to fill the drawers of our cabinets.

But are we hungry?

Yes, we must consume substance to maintain a life and we have been trained on certain taste we desire, but when were you really hungry. Stomach growling and dizzyingly head hungry. Hungry for something that wasn’t prepared by someone else in paper. Hungry for what your body really needs.

 

So why do I care?

Shopping, as I have said, and cooking isn’t the most important aspect of my life. I know how to do it, I have the utensils and the space, but it is just boring. I can taste the flavors and even if prepared by someone else am not surprised.

My question is “Can we train ourselves to stop or at least slow down eating?”

Gotta go and have lunch now.