As amazing as food is, sometimes it’s easy for eating it to become a chore. This isn’t a surprise considering how busy our lives are, and grabbing a quick bite to eat can quickly become an inconvenience.
If you have lost your love for food, don’t worry, there are plenty of ways to get it back, from theming dinner to trying out a variety of different foods. If you are looking for ways to enhance your eating experience, continue reading to learn 6 interesting ways to do just that.
Eat Different Foods
One of the best ways that you can enhance your eating experience would be to try and make a conscious effort toward introducing a variety of different foods into your diet. Much like anything, if you do too much of something that is similar, that repetition will become boring, and it is the same with food.
As such, when it comes to food, you should always be looking to surprise your tastebuds so that they don’t become too accustomed to a certain taste. For example, if you had very savory foods for dinner the night before, you should consider having something slightly sweeter or even tangy for dinner tonight.
Try Cannabis
If the reason you are trying to enhance your eating experience is that you are struggling to eat, or because you have realized your appetite has diminished somewhat, then a great way to make food fun again would be to try cannabis.
There is a very good reason why cannabis is recommended to those undergoing chemo; aside from pain relief, cannabis stimulates hunger and makes food taste amazing. More than this, cannabis can actually be used as an ingredient when cooking and can be used to make some great meals.
Using a consumption method like joints, a dry herb vaporizer, or any type of dab rig would be best if you are looking to experience these effects just before eating since the onset time is quite short for these methods.
Be Present
Another great way to enhance your eating experience would be to make a conscious effort to be present during the meal. In today’s day and age, the idea of having dinner together as a family, or even having dinner by yourself, seems to be fused with the notion that something needs to be watched.
While of course there is nothing wrong with watching your favorite series, unfortunately when you do this during dinner or even lunch, you don’t pay attention to the food you are eating. This almost always leaves a person feeling unfulfilled, and not even really tasting their food. To avoid this, try to be present with each bite and appreciate the plate of food in front of you.
Make it an Experience
Another way that you could enhance your eating experience, especially as a family, would be to make it an experience. It’s very difficult to look forward to eating, or let alone enjoy it when you think of it as a chore or as something that just needs to be done.
By making eating an experience, you can introduce some fun into the practice, and make it something to look forward to. There are many ways to do this, for example as mentioned above, you could try to vary the foods that you are eating.
Another way that you can make it an experience would be to have themed meals. For example, this week you could have Mexican-style food, and the week after next you could have traditional Norwegian dishes. Not only will this make eating fun, but it will also expand your cultural knowledge.
Let Everyone Participate
Finally, the last thing that you could consider doing if you want to enhance your eating experience would be to let everyone participate in making the meal. This is the perfect way to enjoy food, especially as a family, since this also gives you the opportunity to bond, and catch up with everyone about their day.
You have probably realized that the food you have made yourself always tastes better, and if everyone participates in making the food, the feeling will be the same. More than this, you will begin to associate positive feelings with food if you do this.
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Monti Lawson is a farmer, land steward, and community builder whose relationship with food goes all the way to the soil. The founder and lead land steward of Catalyst Collaborative Farm and site supervisor and farmer-in-residence at WILDSEED Community Farm & Healing Village in the Mid-Hudson Valley, Monti spent over a decade as a community gardener and urban farmer in New York City before putting down roots in upstate New York. Grounded in the principles of agroecology, his work centers justice and equity — reimagining food systems as pathways for healing and empowerment, not just sustenance. A graduate of Farm School NYC, he has welcomed hundreds of community members from NYC to the farm through camping weekends, community work days, and seasonal festivals. He is a member of Black Farmers United of New York State, the Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust, and the NYS BIPOC Grower Support Network, and served as the inaugural USDA Farm Service Agency County Committee representative for Manhattan and Staten Island in 2023. At New York Street Food, Monti brings a grower’s perspective to the conversation about where food comes from, who tends it, and why that matters.
