Add a glass of milk, and you've got the all the basic food groups covered. I'd rather have raspberry Kool-Aid, but I'll the drink the milk just to keep the nutritionists happy. I can't get any arguments about my theory at home. I suppose that's what a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on whole wheat bread is for me. I'd probably have to become a partner in a clothing store, but that's what I would choose.
Meals fill our stomach and reveal our identity.
The food we prepare can also mend or strengthen a relationship. You have to be pretty close to someone before you'll share an ice cream cone with them. It's not a potluck unless everybody brings a dish to pass. In the Bible, offering food is also a way to heal differences, or to honor someone. And after the resurrection, the breakfast of bread and fish that Jesus shared with his disciples by the Sea of Galilee was a meal of reconciliation with Peter and the others who had denied Jesus in other ways.