I was raised with the 'starving children in China'. Can anyone else relate? Were you made to feel ashamed if you didn't eat everything on your plate? Oh my. If you didn't "clean your plate", then your leftovers will have to be tossed into the trashcan, thereby, causing some child in China to be denied food. Yes. That was me. My wonderful well meaning grandfather that I love dearly was the one who guilted me into eating and eating until my plate was empty and my stomach was too full.
It's understandable, and I don't fault him for it at all. He was a raised in a very poor household, and he was a young father during the depression, trying to care for a wife and small child. Wasting food, or anything for that matter was considered sinful. He managed to bestow that same value (for better or worse) on his oldest granddaughter (me).
Therefore, when I go to a restaurant, because I know that I will not be able to eat all of the food I order, I tend to order only things that I can easily carry home to save for later. For example, I don't order sandwiches because I know that if I have to take part of it home for a later meal, the bread on a sandwich will get soggy. Yuck.
What naturally thin people know is that the starving children in China are not nourished by our leftovers, and throwing away food is not a sin. They can just do it and attach no emotion whatsoever. They Just Throw It Away.
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