Articles about Food
13 free articles, newest first. Every one is a few minutes long, written in plain language, and open to everyone with no account.
When Your Appetite Disappears
Food has stopped appealing and you forget to eat. Why appetite goes when you are struggling, how to eat by the clock instead of by hunger, and the signs worth seeing a…
After You Ate More Than You Meant To
The eating is over and the hard part has started: the self-attack and the plan to make up for it.
Ordering Something Different From Everyone Else
Saying no to the wine, the shared platter or the dessert can feel like making a scene. How to ask for what you actually need at the table without a speech or an apology.
Cooking for One Again
The recipes are for four, the portions are wrong, and the point of making dinner has gone. How to feed yourself properly when the household has shrunk.
Deciding What to Eat Every Single Day
Three meals a day, every day, forever, and the deciding is the exhausting part. How to take most of that decision off your plate without turning it into a project.
Grazing All Evening Without Noticing
Dinner finished at seven and you have been eating ever since. What is usually driving the evening grazing, and the small changes that work better than willpower.
Eating in Front of Other People
Work lunches, restaurants, family dinners: sometimes being watched while you eat makes your throat close.
Eating Well When Money Is Tight
Food advice usually assumes a budget you do not have. A practical, non-judgmental look at eating on very little, and where to get help without shame.
Cooking When You Have No Energy to Cook
On a flat or exhausted day, cooking can be the thing that does not happen. A lower bar, a shorter list, and a way to eat that does not require you to be at your best.
Slowing Down the First Three Bites
Most of us eat while doing something else and barely taste it. Paying attention to three bites is a small practice with an odd amount of effect on the rest of the meal.
Feeding a Child Who Will Not Eat
Dinner has become a standoff, and you are negotiating with a four-year-old over broccoli every night.
Eating Alone at the End of a Hard Day
You get home depleted and eat standing up, or not at all, or in a blur in front of a screen. Why the evening meal collapses first, and small ways to make it something…
Eating When You Are Stressed
Reaching for food when the day gets hard is one of the most common ways people cope, and it is not a character flaw.