The analysis of the present situation of population’s food security in Romania is made from the perspective of its fundamental dimensions, namely access to food, food availability, agricultural supply stability and food utilization. In this context, the paper intends to address the issue whether the Romanians’ worries with regard to food security are justified on the basis of objective reasons. The first conclusion is that the food security of the population in Romania has been vulnerablized by an extremely unstable domestic agricultural supply. Agricultural production on Romania is much more volatile than in other European countries due to the structural factors and low input consumption. This implies a deficient self-sufficiency in certain categories of products, for instance in vegetables, fruit, meat and in many years for cereals. At the same time, the access to food is restricted by the low purchasing power of the categories of population with low incomes, with many children or with many family members. The food consumption of these population categories and mainly of children from the respective households can be lower than the minimum level recommended by nutritionists. At the same time, the rural population’s food consumption is influenced by the subsistence economy, selfconsumption representing almost half of the food consumption expenditures on these households.