Food is Energy

This appeared in the August 12, 2021 edition of The Fish Wrap.

Have you ever noticed that food made by someone who loves you just tastes better? A baby being fed by his mother is one of our first exchanges of love energy. What and how we eat are the most important decisions we make. Our recent ancestors spent much more time than we do procuring, preparing and eating food together. Today in America, 32% of meals are eaten out of a bag, behind a steering wheel, alone. 

In the 1950’s, 30% of the household income went to food, compared to 10% today. Much more time was given to meals too. After work, Dads carefully tended gardens while Moms made nutritious, multi-course meals, and we ate them around the table while talking about our days and laughing together. 

You are what you eat and the energy we take into our bodies is the kind of energy we put out. When we eat an animal that spent its life in confinement, suffering and deprivation we suffer from feelings of confinement and deprivation. When we eat a plant that spent its life in an environment filled with poisons like glyphosate, our bodies and minds feel poisoned.

When a processed food finds its way to that bag in your car, consider the life of that food before it was harvested, how many suffering people have touched it since then and the lack of connection you have with those people. Low energy food like this will never taste as good as food your mother made, nor will it make you feel as good. If you eat alone, do you love yourself enough to spend time sourcing whole foods you love, carefully preparing them just how you like, and then savoring them slowly over a pleasant table? Put some love in your food today!