Food / Eating / Meal in Dreams: Meaning in Depth Psychology

What you're taking in. Food in dreams tends to be about nourishment of every kind: ideas, relationships, experiences your psyche is digesting. A shared table is connection. Spoiled or poisoned food can mark something you've been swallowing that isn't good for you.

THE CORE MEANING

Nourishment: what you're taking in, digesting, metabolizing. Food in dreams represents psychic nourishment: ideas, experiences, relationships, and content that the psyche is processing. A shared meal is communion. Poison food is toxic content being ingested.

VARIATIONS: CONTEXT CHANGES THE MEANING

feasting: Abundance: the psyche is well-nourished, taking in rich content, celebrating
starving: Psychic deprivation: something essential is not being taken in. The soul is hungry.
shared meal: Communion, integration, the bringing together of different parts of the psyche around a common table
inedible food: What's being offered can't be digested. The content is wrong, or the psyche isn't ready for it
cooking: Transformation of raw material into nourishment: the alchemical process applied to psychic content
poison food: Toxic content being consumed: ideas, relationships, or experiences that are harmful but being ingested anyway

CONNECTS TO

The Mother The Great Mother Integration Sensation (Function)The Self Feeling (Function)The Mother Complex

All of that is the universal meaning. But what does food / eating / meal mean to you? Your personal association matters more than any dictionary.