OBC Food Rules Day 55: Eat meals

This recommendation sounds almost as ridiculous as "eat food", but nowadays it too goes without saying.  We are snacking more and eating fewer meals together.  Sociologists and market researchers who study American eating habits no longer organize their results around the increasingly quaint concept of the meal:  They now measure "eating occasions" and report that we have added to the traditional Big Three-breakfast, lunch and dinner-an as yet untitled fourth daily eating occasion that lasts all day long: the constant sipping and snacking we do while watching TV, driving, working, and so on.  (One study found that Americans ages eighteen to fifty nearly a fifth of all eating takes place in the car.)  In theory, grazing-eating five or six small meals over the course of the day-makes sense.  Keep your grazing to real food, stick to meals.