577 Quotes About Eating

Part of eating well is making friends with hunger.

Of all the foods that we could give a child a free rein over, cereal makes the least sense. Parents let children choose cereal but dictate which vegetables they eat; it should be the other way around.

The first step in recovering from an eating disorder is recognising that there is a problem.

Structured meals, at which a wide range of foods is offered in a firm but loving way, are a key part of the cure for any eating disorder.

For people with eating disorders, food is both a poison and the remedy, but this is true for the rest of us as well. Food is an inescapable fact of life and the task for each of us is to find a way to make out peace with it.

When eating goes wrong, the antidote is not a life without food, but figuring out how we can bring ourselves to eat new food in new ways.

If you can improve the eating, the rest of life gets a little better too.

The needs of the eating disorder sufferer are like a warped version of the travails we all face when learning to eat.

Before addressing what to eat, the most urgent matter is how to eat.