Chili Food

A portion of food or the act of eating a portion of food is considered a meal.

Often named and patterned, meals play a role in an important social occasion, such as the celebration of many key cultural and religious festivals.

A meal can be used as means for feeding a single individual or shared and eaten simultaneously by two or more people.

The number of meals consumed by individuals in a day, their size, composition, when and how they are prepared and eaten varies greatly around the world. This diversity can be attributed to a number of local factors, including climate, ecology, economy, cultural traditions and industrialisation.

In societies where the availability of food has risen above subsistence levels and beyond staple foods, meals are also sold pre-prepared for immediate consumption in restaurants and other similar retail premises.

Food eaten in smaller quantities between the culturally normative meals is regarded as snack food.