Friends with young children tend to wolf down their food.
Other people I know probably eat breakfast and lunch fairly quickly, maybe taking a bit more time over dinner.

My father and uncle would chew every mouthful and take an age to eat any meal, unfortunately this is how I eat. A sloth would be faster. It’s a bit frustrating to say the least.

I dont eat, I hoover! I may do that “chew” thing now and then, but you have to be careful with such antics as it can cause unnecessary wear on teeth and delays the yummy bits from hitting my cake belly

I used to wolf it down. now I chew a lot more and take my time.

Friends with young children tend to wolf down their food.

This is me..it’s the only way to actually finish a meal!!

DrP

Worry not ..you aren’t alone and I have always been told that this is the correct way to eat & digest your food ..a sloth is a good analogy for me too as my name is Neil ( dfs advert )

I think we need a scale of quick using McDonalds cheeseburgers for example.

So lets buy 5…. see how quick 5 takes using normal eating.

Too fast according to the wife and she’s probably right….

I think I eat at a normal speed. I am surrounded by slow eaters though.

depends how hungry I am.

I try to eat more slowly – I know it’s better for you, and it seems silly to go to all the trouble of cooking a nice meal, pouring a glass of wine to enjoy with it – and then hoovering the lot up in about 3 minutes with 98% of the wine still in the glass…

Another vacuum cleaner with occasional chewing here.

My brother-in-law is a super slow eater, he’s been known to need a mid-way trip to the microwave to reheat it as it’s gone cold.

I’m fairly quick, but slow enough to enjoy what I eat. I have on occasion been known to put my knife and fork down though usually when picking up a wine glass.

I eat with my mouth closed though, which is the important bit.

I eat as though I’m scared someone’s going to take my food off me 😯

we go out to a restaurant and my plate is clean before she has even started!

im not much of a foody though, relate it to filling my car up with fuel!

i always say if they developed a pill that would give you all the nourishment you need and eliminated your appetite id sign up to a course of them!

I eat pretty quickly, but more importantly I rarely stop eating, I think this probably accounts for my round waistline!

Slow eating isn’t a bad thing, provided you are enjoying the food.

I do eat more slowly than my wife though, she was one of 3 kids and I think they needed to eat fast in order to get to finish their own meals.

I have been known to fit an entire pack of ginger biscuits in my gob in one go, and then eat the lot without spilling any precious ginger crumbs of joy.

*I am the human personification of Shreks’ dining habits 🙁

Another hooverer of food here, friends often ask if I taste the food whilst eating.

For me it all developed when a teenager, out of me and my brothers whoever finished first got first pick of the seconds…

I generally finish before the OH, but she does talk an awful lot eat quite slowly 😆

Very quickly, my other half eats very slowly.

I should probably slow down a bit and chew more. Saying that, I know someone who chews, actually chews, porridge 😯

I’ve always been a terrible wolf-er of food and its gotten worse of late. Since I started working in film the lunch hour is a really valuable opportunity for my department to do any work thats noisy so I’m the habit of chucking a meal down me then getting on with work that I’ve been anxious about all morning.

The last couple of jobs that hasn’t been necessary and I think its the first time I’ve experienced a whole lunch ‘hour’ uninterrupted. Lunch itself barely occupied a few minutes of it still.

I try to eat more slowly – I know it’s better for you, and it seems silly to go to all the trouble of cooking a nice meal, pouring a glass of wine to enjoy with it – and then hoovering the lot up in about 3 minutes with 98% of the wine still in the glass…

I see your problem. You need to drink faster.

Fairly quick, I don’t do much masticating. 🙂
My stepson however, just seems to inhale his food.

My eating has been described as ‘inhaling’ by parents and past girlfriends. One of my regrets in life was not attempting to capitalise on this by entering speed eating contests.

I have a 16 year old, …eat quick or starve.

If i’m in a group I’m nearly always the last to finish.

Way, way too fast.

Terrible way to gain weight too I’m told – by the time the ‘I’m full’ single reaches my brain I’ve finished, had desert, done the dishes and sniffing around for chocolate.

If i’m in a group I’m nearly always the last to finish.

Amateur Porn thread is over there —->

Surely then, far from terrible that’s a great way to gain weight? (-:

i’ve always eaten too quickly, and it’s definitely why i’m overweight too. despite knowing this, i find it almost impossible to change. i need to make more of an effort to be better. at everything.

I used to wolf it down. now I chew a lot more and take my time.

Me, too, though I can still forget and just go ballistic on something like a block of cheese and a large bag of crisps, or the apple crumble pie I made a few days ago – meant to eat a small spoonful but polished off three slices.

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i’ve always eaten too quickly, and it’s definitely why i’m overweight too. despite knowing this, i find it almost impossible to change. i need to make more of an effort to be better. at everything.

This is me to a T.

Mrs P is much slower so I’m always waiting for dessert, but then somehow she nails her dessert in half the time I eat mine.

I eat as though I’m scared someone’s going to take my food off me

+1 and I don’t like food served on hot plates – slowes me down a second or two . 😆

So slow I have to get my plate really hot to give me a chance of finishing my food..

Nettles – I actually sort of chew my morning porridge, but slowly learning to swallow down whole.

Much like many other women, puddings seem to be consumed faster, especially anything with chocolate in the ingredients.

I find I’m the last to finish when out with work mates yet with family it always gets commented on how quickly I eat so I can’t win :p Personally I think I eat too fast, I’m sure I’d end up eating less volume if I slowed down and gave my brain a chance to register my stomach was full.

Infuriatingly slowly, according to most people.

I can’t remember finishing a meal where the second half was warmer than room temperature.

You sound like this guy

From memory of the film (Nuts in May) each mouthful had to be chewed 100 times. ANd god help anyone who didn’t do as Keith says.

May sounds pleasantly accommodating.