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?
Honestly it’s probably way closer to the true neolithic diet that humans evolved to eat than scheduled meals are. And you’re even describing the right things to eat that way, nuts, berries, a lil jerky. There’s a lot of cultural variance too but honestly what our comes down to is that humanity’s biggest strength that has allowed us to become as powerful as we are is our fundamental versatility.
Even just in terms of food: koalas can’t even recognize the leaves of the one plant they eat their entire lives if they’re not on a tree but humans can walk to the other side of the planet and look at a plant or animal and be like “wonder how I’m gonna cook that.” That is AMAZING and you’re saying you think that’s bound by a schedule? You think humans spent time on the migration path going “nah I’m gonna skip that berry cuz it’s not lunch yet!”
You made me smile with that line on the humans looking around and thinking in different ways to eat the landscape.
You are correct, our ancestors ate whenever and whatever they could but we are not our ancestors. We’ve developed and went above and beyond those constraints.
And this is not to deny your point. I can easily withstand an entire day with a single meal, like many others, but it is not pleasant. And it is very well understood how keeping a schedule for eating, properly, is benefitial.