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The author offers a thought about how everyday life objects, among which food, can be considered as part of the patient’s private sphere, at home as well as within the institution. In this matter it withholds a social and ritualized meaning, as well as sustaining a transference meaning that can help enlighten certain malfunctions in caregiving and open up to the unexpected, helping thereby to get out of a deadly ritual. Based upon his clinical experience within various therapeutic settings such as day care hospital, full-time hospitalization, private practice or even house hospitalization, but also institutional psychotherapy theories, the author questions the relationship with food and what it hides as transference / counter transference matters.