Christmas Lunch... Everyday?

[OceanEyes28]

Haha... by vegetable, do they mean green beans and mashed potatoes? Green beans are already a veggie lightweight, but canned? Useless. And white potatoes... you could do so much better than white potatoes. Now, sweet potatoes are good for you.... but not covered in butter, brown sugar, and marshmallows.

I'm sure their intentions are good, but I'm afraid I'll have to disagree with this... Christmas lunch every day suggestion.

But do I think families should eat together at the table? Yes. We do it all the time. I do it with my roommates. It's nice.

[Shan'do Spike]

Whatever study you were seeing cited really needs to have its facts checked.

Firstly, one of their arguments is that it would mean we have plenty of leftovers. Christmas lunch leftovers last for more than one meal. If you had Christmas lunch every day, you'd waste so much food that you could probably feed most of Africa with the wasted food.

Not to mention so much of Christmas lunch is extremely unhealthy. Yes, there are some vegetables, but they're not even the healthiest vegetables, and mashed potatos with tons of butter don't exactly qualify as healthy.

Plus, it's good for people to get a break from each other every now and then. Don't get me wrong: families should eat together frequently, but they don't need to do it three times a day.

Oh, and it's almost definitely not cheaper. Christmas food is usually of a higher quality than other food you eat: even if you were to eat the same quantity of food over that stretch that you normally do, because the food is of higher quality, it costs more. Not to mention there have been scientific studies that show that flavorful food tends to make you want to eat more, whereas less flavorful food causes chemicals to be released that make you want to eat less. So, not only does the food cost more per unit, it makes you want to eat more as well.

That study, uh, has serious holes.