Blessing of Food and/or Water

[Aum]

Do you bless your food and/or water? If so, what method do you use? Have you noticed this ritual change anything in your eating habits, the way the food and/or water assimilates with your body, or change the vibration of the food or waters energy?

[Sage Rainsong]

I usually thank the animals and plants for their sacrifice. I don't always remember to do it though.

[La Fortuna]

Hi there!

I usually offer water, incense, food, sometimes flowers, whatever, you think your deity might enjoy. Prayer is one of the greatest offerings. Try composing your own as well. I usually try to offer these all at one time.

The food is blessed on my Kemetic path through the offering of it and the prayers said over it. To consume it after is to "dine" with the deity and receive their essence and bring you closer to them.

Yes, I notice a difference, it is a divine spiritual connection.

Good luck
La Fortuna :wave:

[Windsmith]

Like Sage, I try to remember to thank the animals and plants for their sacrifice and celebrate their lives. I also thank the farmers and distributors for their efforts. If I'm really on a roll, I'll thank Sun, Wind, Rain, and Earth, as well. But I admit that I forget a lot, because it's fairly new for me. After years of associating "food blessing" with either saying God did all the work or casting out whatever "impurities" it might contain that I can't be sure of because who knows what unclean sorts have touched my food (*gasp!*), I was stridently saying anything over my food beyond, "Pass the salt" for many years.

I think that, as it becomes more automatic and I'm doing it all the time, it'll make a big difference about what I choose to eat. It's hard to celebrate the life of the animal that became my lunch if, for example, my lunch came from McDonald's, because I know the conditions those animals lived in, and there's not much there to celebrate.

It also helps me remember that the food that goes into my body isn't just a lump of digestible material but a collection of sacred elements. It's too early yet to tell what kind of difference that's going to make, but I'm sure it will, given time.