What is Food to You?

Food means different things to different people. For some people it is just a daily requirement. You are hungry, so you eat. You don’t really care too much for it, you just want to fill the hole in your belly. For others it is a way of life. They get up and all they are thinking about is food. They live and breathe it all day, everyday.

If you are not interested in cooking then you fall into the first camp, you don’t see the point in it, you don’t have a love for it. I have met many people like this. They just want food on a plate at the cheapest cost to them, time and money.

The other end of the scale are people that love cooking. They can spend all day just to make stock. I have done this before and felt very good about it. Chefs that go to work everyday and working long hours to produce the food that goes on the plate. Then the supply lines that come from that. Farmers, butchers, growers, bakers and the others. All working together to create, make and produce food for us.

Shopping in supermarkets takes away from this thought process. Chicken comes from a packet, vegetables are always there, milk is chilling on the shelf. But we don’t see the work that went into putting that product there.

I feel like everyone, from the bottom of the chain to the top needs to appreciate the work that goes in. We need to have a better understanding of the process and we will appreciate and respect the food more.

If we can do that, then food will mean more to us than something to fill a hole.

I have spent hours before preparing for meals, Christmas is the prime example, I can spend days getting ready for it. All that work, time and effort just for a few hours. I know that food is appreciated, the time for me is well spent.

So let’s all take a little more time to appreciate the process, remember what goes into our food and praise the unsung heroes of the food world around us.