Stuffing 5,000 calories into your mouth per day of processed food-like products is the complete opposite of truly mindful eating.  Right?! I love food. But it's an appreciation that comes along with knowing the ingredients in the things I'm eating. Appreciating all the life, all the death that came from getting the ingredients together. It's the past where I was tweaking recipes and trying this or that thing. Teaching and learning aspects related to cooking and preparing it. The balance of vitamins, minerals, protein and fiber. And evil as it makes us the (gasp) calories.  Which isn't to say that one has to make a meal to appreciate it. But 'someone' needs to have made it. Not something, but someone.  You can't be mindful of something that came from a black box system. Appreciative, sure. But not mindful. Mindful appreciation can come from faith in the person making a meal and their dedication to doing right by the people they're making it for. But that doesn't hold with corporations or something made at an assembly line. Being mindful of a meal means that someone, somewhere, must have been mindful of its preparation too.