For most of us, the holidays are a time of (over)indulgence. Our family recently took a tour where we witnessed a demonstration of hearth cooking. This was done over a massive open fireplace in the house in the same way it would have been done about 150 years ago. The docent explained that in the Northern hemisphere, the end of the year was a time of feasting to celebrate the harvest and prepare for the tough winter and spring months until you could harvest again in the summer. From those ancient rituals sprang holidays like Christmas and New Year. I had never really thought of it that way.
To counteract the holidays, many of us will start to watch what we eat. An important part of controlling our diets is to understand portion sizes and calorie counts. The New York Times recently put together a photo essay documenting servings at some popular American restaurants to show readers what 2,000 calories (approximately what a normal adult should be eating over an entire day) might look like. As you can imagine, there were single items that could sometimes exceed that limit! (Cheesecake Factory had a dish called Louisiana Chicken Pasta weighing in at 2,370 calories while Sonic had a Peanut Butter Caramel Pie Shake measured at 2,090).
Let's start a select tour:
One common chain, Subway, offers a relative feast for 2,000 calories:
Here is the link to the full article: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/22/upshot/what-2000-calories-looks-like.html?abt=0002&abg=1&_r=0
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