Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the meaning of food consumption practices in maintaining intergenerational relationships between young university students and their parents. Design/methodology/approach – Student food consumption has been mainly studied through quantitative...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to understand the meanings young people give to their food consumption practices in the mealtime interdependencies at home or at school. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses an interpretive research strategy and adopts a multi‐method approach...