It is easy to regulate ourselves if we think of Krishna’s pleasure in everything we do. Our rising time is determined by His rising time. Similarly, our eating schedule should be arranged around Krishna’s eating schedule. We are meant to cook for Krishna’s pleasure and not to please ourselves. Then we are meant to offer what we have cooked to the Deity. Krishna kindly eats at the same time every day. We can regulate our eating around His offerings so that we are always honoring His prasadam. We should not think, “I’m not hungry, so why should I cook?” We are not cooking for ourselves but for Krishna. Only those under the influence of the material modes will cook only when they are hungry.
(SB 1.12.54 Minsk, 3.23.1991)