In many fields of action of social work it is increasingly reflected that social work has to deal with hunger or food issues on a daily basis, which go beyond the satisfaction of basic needs. The provision of food by institutionalized people to be taken for granted in this context has been applied in total institutions for disciplinary purposes and with normalization justifications. Punishment and humiliation were used as a matter of course as a means of hardening or education. Deprivation of food, withholding food, force-feeding, or making inedibles be eaten are among the many possibilities that were abused in total institutions. Social work fields of action take responsibility for the development of conceptual differentiations that deal with the natural need for hunger in a way that is neither “educative” nor disciplinary, humiliating or power-abusing.