In our last post we talked about “mindful eating.” With that in mind, consider what the “Average American” eats. I was a little surprised myself. Maybe these stats will make us all a bit more mindful of what and how we eat.
The average American eats about 1,800 pounds of food per year, or about five pounds per day.
The average American eats:
- 64 pounds of beef per year
- 57 pounds of chicken per year (about 27 chickens)
- 50 pounds of pork per year
- 14 pounds of turkey per year
- 236 eggs per year
- 200 sandwiches per year
- 60 hot dogs per year
- Refined white sugar – 100 pounds
- Fats & Oils – 55 pounds
- Soda – 300 cans/bottles
- Chewing Gum – 200 sticks
- Ice Cream – 80 quarts
- Candy – 18 pounds
- Potato Chips – 5 pounds
- Other Snack Chips – 2 pounds
- Doughnuts – 63 Dozen
- Cookies & Cakes – 70 Pounds
The average American eats fast food seventy-two times a year, drinks 9 and a half pounds of coffee per year and eats about 35,000 cookies in their lifetime.
Now, here’s the thing about "averages." My favorite example: “If you stand with one foot frozen in a block of ice and the other foot submerged in a bucket of boiling water, (although why you would, I don’t know) on average your feet are quite comfortable.”
How do you measure up as an Average American? See anything on the list you might want to change? It is “food for thought.”
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