What do you eat when you’re alone?

Write about what you eat when you’re alone.  Is it any different from what you eat when you have friends over, or even when you’re eating with your s/o or kids?  Why is that?

It is an interesting thing, eating. We have to do it to survive, even though many of us have a love/hate relationship with food. Our most beloved traditions are nothing without certain meals, and life isn’t the same without our favorite snack. Why does food play such a large part in our lives?

I admit that when I eat alone it is a completely different experience from when I cook meals for my husband, family or friends. When I am alone I do not sit down for formal meals. I rarely eat what would be considered a “balanced meal”. I think the term most fitting would be “grazing”.

When I am alone I don’t generally think about food until I am about an hour past ravenous, then I search the cupboards for that one thing that sounds “good” at the moment. I eat whatever I find with my head buried deep in a book, a paper, a computer screen or an art project. A while later, when my body has decided that “good” food didn’t quite fill me up, I venture out again to find something else.

Repeat this cycle over the course of a day, week, month… and there you have it, one horrible eating pattern.