I keep to my three meals a day: breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Meanwhile, I am constantly seeing people munching away on dehydrated fruit bits, protein this or that, fiber supplemented cookies, etc, to the point they overlook proper meals.
Did I miss a memo?
There’s been a snack culture for a while in some places. For a while the generalized “healthy eating” suggestion was to snack throughout the day so you don’t consume 1,000 calories at once in a single meal before bed. Not sure if that’s really the case still, or what.
At least here in Finland, officials recommend a snack between breakfast and lunch, and between lunch and dinner. We also have an “evening-snack” which is like breakfast but eaten an hour or two before going to sleep. Some officials, mostly dental-related, do think snacking is bad for your teeth or something, but we Finns do use xylitol quite often so I don’t think that consern is too important. When it comes to snack, its often fruit, maybe coffee and a bun. But definitely not chips or candy bars