Everyone enjoys talking about food. We like to follow dietary ideas that are often based on something they have read or ideas we hold dear. People love photographing their food and sharing the images. Many are just food mad. It is a major part of our daily life and often speaks about our attitude to life in general. Are you lazy, creative, wasteful, greedy, fussy, non-caring or overly concerned? The way we are with food is maybe how you are like with relationships, work, your home etc.

 We need food to survive and getting it was a major part of our daily life when we were hunters and gatherers. Even now our work life is primarily about being “the breadwinner” and putting food on the table. Some families have for centuries been thanking their different gods for the food “they are about to receive. ” Maybe what they are actually doing is thanking their god for allowing them to be able to afford, or grow, or find/hunt the food they have to try and ensure they get it again tomorrow. That they do not lose their income or that the harvest doesn’t fail.

 Go on the internet or open a magazine or newspaper and we find countless recipes as well as endless and often conflicting arguments about salt, fat, sugar, carbs, meats, fish, cooking, raw eating, vitamins, alcohol, oils, superfoods, grains, chocolate, aphrodisiacs, animal treatment, farming methods, organic foods, GMO issues, 5 a-days, 7 a -days. Then there is food linked positively or negatively to certain religions.

Our drive to find and secure food has been replaced by a general obsession with it.  Everyone has different views and it can actually be quite hard to know what is right or wrong.

 Gives us your thoughts on food, your beliefs on what we should and shouldn’t eat and although many people's ideas will possibly be completely against your own – be open and friendly.

As some of you may know we are vegetarians. Something I had not considered when becoming a vegetarian was how it becomes very much a part of you. It isn't like a "I don't like spinach" thing (though I do like spinach) or "I don't enjoy westerns" (and I do enjoy some westerns) and it isn't even an "I recycle" type notion or "I don't drink and drive." It isn't even like giving up smoking and then becoming very anti-smoking.

After you have been a vegetarian for so long the idea of eating meat just becomes an alien concept. Something you just cannot fathom any more. Any logic, choice, taste or reason for doing it has long been replaced by a natural instinct. Being a vegetarian is just as much a part of me now as being a woman or breathing - it is an integral part of my being. It doesn't trouble me that people eat meat, but it does seem a very strange idea. When I chose to become vegetarian I never expected an emotional and mental change on that level.  

Hello all - Gives us your thoughts on food, your beliefs on what we should and shouldn’t eat and although many people's ideas will possibly be completely against your own – be open and friendly.