Something falls down - Naina picks it up and scrapes off the part that touched the floor and she keeps it in her pocket and later shares it with her siblings. The happiness, the joy!
Freya - The kind who'd pile up her plate when free food is available
Nana - The kind who instinctively don't want to impose her hunger on others. Takes the smaller bit of food. She wants the host to have enough for themselves and others. She also will wait to eat her last share of food in case someone else is hungry, so that she can offer it to them.
cabbage and bone stew
Not wearing my best clothes because I don't want them to get stained. Saving them for some special occasion that never comes
In my late teens my mom and I were invited to a upper middle class family's holiday dinner. About 10 minutes in we locked eyes across the table in horror to realize we both have about 3 bites left on our plates, while everyone else's plates were still FULL of food. We spent the duration of the dinner talking TINY bites of food, locking eyes and almost bursting out laughing at the ridiculousness of the bites we were taking.
scarfing things down, licking the plate
Grab anything that’s free.
May be Freya- My friend’s sisters and brothers would eat at the table, hunched over their plate, with their fork in one hand, and their other arm around their plate, ready to fend off anyone who might try to steal food from their plate.
And eating fast. And forcing yourself to clean your plate, even when you’re full. Had a coworker once who would eat unfinished food off OTHER people’s plates at lunch because “that’s good beef!” And then be be groaning all afternoon from stomach pain.
Once I stayed at my ex's and he's from a wealthy family but we were busy (college) so we didn't go to the supermarket, one night he was saying "there's nothing to eat in the fridge" so I went to see and, for me, there was enough food for one week. I made dinner that night and he was amazed that I "cooked something so delicious when there was almost nothing in the fridge" (baked potato with cauliflower and chicken strips, with a bit of cheese
