There are gaps on the shelves, queues snaking round supermarket car parks, tips on how to use up leftovers, and arguments over stockpiling; food is a bigger issue than it’s been for a long time.
We’ve always talked about food in our house (from laughing at my burnt sausages to praising my son’s curries), but in these days of insecurity I’ve started to wonder if we talk about food a lot, but hardly ever about eating. Recipes, flavours and tastes are easy to talk about, but appetite, habits and diet seem almost taboo. Why is it that we avoid discussing something we all do every day?
It’s ironic really, given that so much of church life involves food, that we sweep food problems under the carpet. But these problems are real: overeating and undereating, secret bingeing and obsessing over calories, self-hatred and habits that seem unbreakable are live issues for very many of us. They form some of our deepest struggles and reveal our broken and sinful nature. And disordered eating isn’t always just a symptom of problems though, it can be part of the problem itself.
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