Born to love food?

It is commonly stated that the lifestyle habits which we display are adopted due to learned behaviour, and influences we experienced as a child. This must also apply to the relationship we have with food. The aim of this blog is to explore how our childhood experiences and influences effect our relationship with food, by incorporating my own food memories from growing up and how they shaped my attitude towards food as an adult.

It is certain that we don't really begin to appreciate food until we are able to feed it to ourselves. By all accounts for the first two years of my life I just used to throw my food at the walls. Or maybe, as babies, we are secret food snobs and are perfectly aware that the mush we are being fed is far from a delicacy and are waiting in vane for the day we can devour real solids? Let's face it, if any of us were served this now, we would refuse to pay...

When it all began... 

As children we go though multiple phases with regards to food, from refusing to eat it at all as a baby, to choosing a particular food which we favour over all other food, having to be bribed and persuaded to consume parts of our dinner which we deemed as healthy and therefore disgusting, and eventually reaching a point of maturity where we begin to appreciate food. But which factors and responses to this journey help shape a relationship with food that will stick with us forever?