I, just as hilarious Hilary, I'm also a big fan of snacking.
I prefere small bites of everything instead of meals throughout the day, one big meal is enough for me, I thrive and live for snacks too, just like our main character.

This is also a concept I've been thinking about and investigating lately; the concept of 3 meals a day.
I recently saw a video about it's colonialist roots which made me go into a rabbit hole. I love challenging white people's colonialist standards hence my detest for the 3-meal plan, if it works for you, good for you.

This book challenged modern eating, behaving, looking and thinking ways and I'm all here for it.

For those who love reading Hilary Campbell’s cartoons and comics, be prepared to go through all the pain that is around in modern society, for those who don’t eat the way everyone else does. In this graphic memoir about food, and love, and family, Hilary goes through how she was a picky eater as a child, and continues to be so as an adult.


The problem is, the man she is seeing is a foodie. He just doesn’t get that she has issues around food, and just seems to think if she would just try the food, she would like it. Why won’t you try it?


Meanwhile she goes through all the comfort food she loves to eat, and that while the two of them share many loves, liking the same food is not one of them. She keeps saying that part isn’t important, but as she goes through telling all the food that she learned to love, and things she refused to eat, you see that it is a big deal.


The story goes back into her childhood, and early adulthood, and then back to the present. She compares and contrasts how she felt then with how she feels now.


Some bits are hard to read, such as when she goes into having such anxiety around food, that she starts to be bulimic. But then she will mix all this with the humor of recipes, such as how to make a grilled cheese sandwich, or how to make fruit snacks. (You buy them.)
If you can make it through the sad bits, you will enjoy the funny bits. A little give and take.


Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review. This book is coming out on the 7th of October 2025.

Interesting and enjoyable. I did think there would be more about snacks and less memoir, but I did love the story.

I liked this graphic novel but I did not finish it. I wasn't fully invested and I think my own food problems made it hard to read about these ones as they're fairly similar. I think there are definitely people out there who would really like it though! I liked the non-perfect illustrations that are somehow still perfect though!