Foods for Protection

The preparation of food, with a particular intention in mind, is old magick. Look at food as sacred, let the act of preparing, cooking and eating food be a sacred act. Your kitchen can be a place of powerful magick, work slowly and deliberately to hone your craft.

When preparing foods for specific magickal purposes, cook with purpose and care. Keep your goal in mind, love, money, protection, health, fertility, sex, strength, psychic awareness. Always stir clockwise, clockwise motion is thought to be in harmony with the apparent movement of the sun in the sky, and has been linked with life, health and success. Cut foods into shapes symbolic of your magical intention, such as a Pentagram for protection etc.

The following foods can be used, prepared, and eaten with protection as the intention, and used in conjunction with your protection spells.

• Artichoke
• Basil: (also love and money)
• Bay leaf: (also psychic awareness and healing)
• Black Pepper: (also purification)
• Blueberry ice cream
• Broccoli
• Brussels Sprouts
• Chili peppers
• Chili powder
• Chives: (also health)
• Cloves: (also love and money)
• Cranberries
• Fennel: (also strength and health)
• Garlic: (also health)
• Horseradish: (also purification)
• Leek: (also strength)
• Mango: (also sex and love)
• Marigold: (also happiness)
• Mustard: (also courage)
• Onion: (also health)
• Parsley: (also sex and money)
• Pineapple: (also healing,  money, love)
• Pineapple pie: (also love, healing, and money)
• Potato: (also compassion)
• Quince: (also love)
• Radish
• Rhubarb: (also love)
• Salt: (also grounding and purification)
• Soy: (also awareness and spirituality)
• Sunflower: (also success)
• Tangerine
• Tomato: (also health, money, and love)
• Vinegar: (also purification)
• Walnut: (also conscious mind)
• Watercress: (also fertility)

Source: Witches Lore