Quotes About Food

Beware of the health halo. The better the food, the worse the extras. People eating 'low-fat' granola ate 21 percent more calories, and those eating 'healthy' at Subway rewarded themselves by ordering cheese, mayo, chips, and cookies. Who really overeats—the guy who knows he's eating 710 calories at McDonald's, or the woman who thinks she's eating a 350-calorie Subway meal that actually contains 500 calories?

We can turn the food in our life from being a temptation or a regret to something we guiltlessly enjoy. We can move from mindless overeating to mindless better eating.

Serving sizes start to make sense only when foods are individually packaged.

It Isn't nutrition until it's eaten.

Moods, however, do seem to influence what we choose to eat. People in happy moods tended to prefer healthier foods, such as pizza or steak. People in sad moods were much more likely to reach for ice cream, cookies, or a bag of potato chips.2

The beauty of impulse eating may be that you end up eating less—when you do eat—than someone who has been thinking about the food for hours. The more you think of something, the more of it you'll eat.5

We have been trained not to waste food in the garbage, but to waste it on our bodies. Either way it is wasted. In one way, we just carry the waste with us.

Didn't you know? Todd's vegan.

sweet potatoes in their jackets have a large comfort value built into them

Health food makes me sick.

Daddy, how come in Kansas City the bagels taste like just round bread?

Was the Buffalo chicken wing invented when Teressa Bellissimo thought of splitting it in half and deep frying it and serving it with celery and blue-cheese dressing? Was it invented when John Young started using mambo sauce and thought of elevating wings into a specialty?

Exponential increases in population will dominate any arithmetic increases, even those brought about by heroic technological initiatives, in the availability of food and resources, as Malthus long ago realized. While some industrial nations have approached zero population growth, this is not the case for the world as a whole.

If we have less time alive than the time we have lived, shouldn't it all be comfort food?

He finished the Cherry Coke, and when the hash arrived he ordered a glass of milk to go with it. He ate the hash and drank the milk without looking up. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught Josie Jackson looking at him as she passed down the counter.

It's only some rice and beans Captain. It's not like I'm giving you Cara's hand in marriage. - Richard

It was always a good idea to bring food when going to see Zedd.

HOROSCOPE: Today is a good time for making new friends. A good deed may have unforeseen consequences. Don't upset any druids. You will soon be going on a very strange journey. Your lucky food is small cucumbers. People pointing knives at you are probably up to no good. PS, we really mean it about the druids.

the food was good solid stuff for a cold morning, all calories and fat and protein and maybe a vitamin crying softly because it was all alone.

If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.

Do you think there's anything to eat in this forest?" "Yes," said the wizard bitterly, "us.

I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, he said, BUT I COULD MURDER A CURRY.

All Fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once.

That's what the gods are! An answer that will do! Because there's food to be caught and babies to be born and life to be lived and so there is no time for big, complicated, and worrying answers! Please give us a simple answer, so that we don't have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that don't fit the way we want the world to be.