Food is Love
Food is love.
Food is comforting.
Food is nourishing.
Food is connecting.
Food is celebratory.
Food can be consumed neutrally, or with great emotion.
Food can be consumed mindfully, or mindlessly.
Food can be easy.
Food can be so complicated.
There is no one way to interact with food.
All of this is to say that your experience with food, even during the holidays, is an experience unique onto you.
You don’t actually need to eat a food to honor your sibling or your guardian or your relative or coworker or your best friend. Suggestion of something else is actually not about you.
Holiday food can be tricky. And if you have been eating the same celebratory food that you do not enjoy year after year to ensure the happiness of another human, know that you can take a breath. That you can make another choice. That you can express your love and appreciation for another human without consuming a food that you don’t enjoy.
This is not to say that you’re doing something wrong if you do eat a food that you don’t love to honor a human that you do. But it is to say that just because you love a person does not mean you need to eat a food that they create. If you were given another impression, that is more about the person making the food that it is about you.
Eat all of the holiday fun food that you want. And eat it again when the holidays are over, too. We don’t need to elevate food to make it seasonally appropriate. Any food that you enjoy can be enjoyed all year long.
Food is love, but love does not make food obligatory.
🙌hands up if you’ll need to set this boundary.
Two points if you’ll tell us how you will do so!
