Just One More Bite (Random pOST #3)

 The other day, my friends and I were talking about how when you open a snack, it’s usually easier to finish the whole bag than to close it.  The snack that brought up this topic was Sour Patch Kids and the reasoning was that the sugar would spill everywhere so it’s easier to just finish the whole bag, all the sugar included.  And this is all for the sake of your personal cleanliness of course.  At first I didn’t necessarily agree because first of all, who can eat that many Sour Patch in one sitting?  And second, if this is true then this logic would apply to everything.  My friends then clarified that this was in fact true to everything, a bag of chips, a bowl of pasta, a bottle of wine.  As they continued to discuss this, I started to get swayed and understand their reasoning.  When you save something for later or you try to portion something off, it is never as good it was the first day because air gets into the bag or crumbs will spill out or something like that where the quality of your food is degraded. 

            

If this is true though, would anyone actually buy the huge bags of chips from Costco or even the family sized bags of anything at the grocery store?  To me, buying a big bag of snacks is dangerous because you fall into a pattern of grabbing the snack, putting it in your mouth, grab, put, grab, put and so on.  And before you know it, you’re towards the end of the bag and there’s so little it really doesn’t make sense to save it for later at that point so you just finish it.  So does anyone else have this same problem of opening something and not being able to stop until there’s literally nothing left to eat?  And where does this problem come from?  Is it because we don’t want to create a mess with the leftovers or is it because we just have no self control?  Either way, is there a way to limit your snacking without downgrading to the smaller bags of snacks?