Embracing the Sense of Taste

Every day, if we have the resources to do so, we eat three (or sometimes more!) meals. So many flavors and textures pass through our senses – but are we paying any attention to their complexity, savoring their diversity, taking pleasure in our capacity to sense them? If not, now’s a perfect time to start! Our relationship with food can be multilayered and sometimes fraught with the cultural and social messages we’ve absorbed over the years. It can be a challenge to quiet our inner monologue enough to re-experience the simple joy of eating attentively! I encourage you to practice. This challenge offers a chance to reconnect with your senses of smell and taste, and rediscover the pleasures of nourishing yourself.

Habit:

Try a new food or combination of foods

Enjoy a familiar food or meal

Daily:

Savor a flavor with attention

To Do:

Share something tasty with someone you like

Create something about food or flavor (a recipe, photo, poem, essay, whatever!)

Reflection:

Revisiting this challenge was just as fun and nourishing as the first time around, and there was a lot of positive feedback in the guild.