• 2017-10-09

Only 59,4% of the respondents have breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. Since reaching adulthood, a
64 year old person has spent 174 days of their life on having breakfast, 219 days on having lunch and 202 days on having dinner.

In the scope of the survey conducted in Georgia, 500 respondents were interviewed and data was collected on their on dietary regimen.

As a result of the survey it was revealed that for 59,4% of respondents, three meals a day are a part of everyday routine. 8,7% of population usually doesn’t have breakfast. Most of them are people between the ages of 18-34.
It turned out that lunch takes the most time – about 18 minutes. Among those who say that they usually don’t have lunch, the majority are men. In contrast, women eat dinner more rarely than men (see Chart #2). On average, people spent about 3.7 days a year on breakfast, 4.7 days a year on lunch and 4.3 days a year on dinner.
If we compare these findings to the results of a similar survey conducted in 2006, we’ll see that people used to spend more time on all three types of meals in 2006. In particular, on average people used to spend 4.1 days a year on breakfast, 5.2 days a year on lunch and 5.2 days a year on dinner back in 2006.
Since reaching adulthood, a 64 year old person has spent 174 days of their life on having breakfast, 219
days on having lunch and 202 days on having dinner.
The difference between times spent on eating is even starker if we compare these results to the ones of
the survey conducted in 2006. According to the data from 2006, a 64 year old person had spent 194
days of their life on having breakfast (20 days more than now), 243 days on having lunch (almost 25 days
more than now) and 241 days (40 days more than now) on having dinner.
In the end, nowadays a 64 year old person has spend 595 days of their life on eating all three meals,
about 85 days less than in 2006.