Promoting feelings through preparing food?

[Lay-Lay]

I learned a long time ago that playing with your food while thinking good happy thoughts really puts your energy into it and improves the taste. I always like to touch my food as much as possible.

I know when I eat out many times it may not taste good although there is nothing wrong with it, it just has sort of a negative feeling or energy to it.

What are your thoughts on this?

[juliebove]

Hmmm... I'm just the opposite. The more food I make, the less I want to eat it. Guess I get sick of looking at it or something. I prefer to eat things other people have made, even though mine usually tastes better.

[DavidZaneMason]

-Sure! I agree.

-With everything connected at a quantum level - how can our feelings and thoughts NOT affect the food we prepare and eat? And how can we escape the consequences of food that was prepared with indifference, hate, or cruelty?

-David Mason

[lil fairy z girl]

if i put effort into making something then i tend to enjoy it.
i also find if something is presented in an appealing way then that also adds to the enjoyment.
It also depends on who made the food for me,
i know a wise person once said "Better is a dish of vegetables where there is love...... " ;)

best wishes
sal
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[Lay-Lay]

thanks for sharing your thoughts!

[mud]

i think emotional feelings are connected with food in many ways!

There's another quote that i think about all the time. It's from the Bible. There's a lot of translations for this proverb, but this one is my favorite;

"It is better to have a bowl of soup with someone you love, then to eat meat at a table full of strife."

Dunno. i can never enjoy my food when there is arguing and noise around me. i prefer to actually sit on the floor, alone ~ and be at peace. i don't like talking while eating either. It's distracting! Lol.

[Lay-Lay]

yeah me too! May I ask what verse that comes from for my own reference. Thanks for sharing!

[Gosia]

As a kid, I used to play with other kids from the block. I lived in one of those communist blocks of flats, with 50 flats in it. We were a big bunch of kids. Playing with food and eating while playing was something we did a lot. Eating with fingers as opposed to using fork is always best to me!

Gosia

[Veganforlife]

Oh, I totally agree! Becoming one w/your food is becoming one with yourself! I love to present to me an appealing meal. It tastes so much better! When I take my creations to my family, I love to see the smiles on their faces when they see it and then taste it.
Alissa, in her videos - she just beams when the two gals taste something for the first time.
It's a feeling of accomplishment and well-being.
Once again - it's part of the Plan, the connection, the one-ness with Earth and the Universe. It's all how it should be...

[Lay-Lay]

Totally, right on!

[mud]

Lay-Lay, the scripture is found in ~ Proverbs 15:17

[Draginvry]

That's one of the reasons that I prefer to make my own meals. It's also the reason that I try not to eat when I am upset or angry. IMHO, how and why you eat your food are more important than what you are eating. I don't care if you are eating the world's best broccoli. It will only have a miniscule benefit if you are eating in distress. Tense muscles are easily damaged from exercise. The stomach is no exception.

I also think that emotions have a direct physical effect on the material world. I've eaten cookies that pep me up, if they are cooked with love.

[Conscious Midwife]

-Sure! I agree.

-With everything connected at a quantum level - how can our feelings and thoughts NOT affect the food we prepare and eat? And how can we escape the consequences of food that was prepared with indifference, hate, or cruelty?

-David Mason


My grandmother use to judge an individuals spirit/ ountenance by the way they prepared and presented food.

She used to say " Bertha sure didn't put any love in these rolls" or " That peach cobbler must have been made by a GOOD woman" etc...

[Conscious Midwife]

There must be something to it all. I belive the levitical law of the bible obids a woman to even prepare foods during her "unclean" time.