Showing posts with label Food Facts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food Facts. Show all posts

Sunday, May 5, 2013

Floating eggs

If you fill a bowl with water and then lower an egg in it, if the egg floats, the egg is bad. A good egg will sink to the bottom and lie on its side. Bad eggs are also lighter. Good eggs are heavier.

Watermelon water

A watermelon is over 90% water.

Saturday, May 4, 2013

Beans eaten

If you eat 60 beans a week for 70 years, you ate 218,400 beans.

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Cans of food

If you buy five cans of food each week for 95 years, you bought 24,700 cans.

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Lifetime meals

If you have breakfast, lunch, and dinner for 95 years, you had a total of 104,025 meals in your life.

Saturday, April 20, 2013

Pounds of sugar eaten

If you have 80 grams a day of sugar, after 80 years you had 2,336,000 grams of sugar. This is over 5,000 pounds of sugar.

Calories a second

If you take in 2,000 calories a day, this comes to an average of 43.2 calories a second.

Monday, June 16, 2008

Meals eaten

If you have three meals a day; breakfast, lunch, and dinner, each year you have 1,095 meals. This is 10,950 meals every 10 years. If each meal is 250 calories, you had 2,737,500 calories after 10 years.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Cooking time

If you spend 15 minutes a day cooking, after 40 years you spent 219,000 minutes behind the stove.

This is 3,650 hours or 152 days of nonstop cooking.

Bread eaten

If you have a sandwich five days a week, after 40 years you had 20,800 slices of bread.

If each slice of bread is 90 calories, after 40 years you had 1,872,000 calories from bread.

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Thanksgiving turkeys

If you have a 15 pound turkey for Thanksgiving, you would still need 134 turkeys to equal one ton (2,000 pounds).

If you eat two pounds of turkey each Thanksgiving for 50 years, you would have eaten 100 pounds of turkey after 50 years. That is almost (seven) 15 pound turkeys eaten all by yourself.

If you weigh 120 pounds, it would take (eight) 15 pound turkeys to equal your weight.

If 10 million households buy a 15 pound turkey, that is 150 million pounds of turkey, or 75,000 tons of turkeys bought. If your car weighs 3,000 pounds, that is equal to 50,000 cars in weight.

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Calorie count

If you take in 2,000 calories a day, every 10 years you have 7,300,000 calories. If you live for 80 years, you would have had 58,400,000 calories.

Sunday, October 28, 2007

Sugar grams

If you have 40 grams a day of sugar, after 50 years you had 730,000 grams of sugar.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Millions of calories

If you live 80 years and you take in 2,000 calories per day for 80 years, you had 58,400,000 calories over an 80 year period.

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Pizza pies eaten

If you eat two slices of pizza each week, you ate 104 slices a year of pizza. This is equal to eating 13 pizza pies (eight slices are in a pizza pie).

Every 10 years you would have eaten 130 pizza pies.

In 50 years you would have eaten 650 pizza pies.

Friday, October 5, 2007

Gallons of water

If you drink four cups of water a day for 50 years, you will drink 73,000 cups of water over that period.

After 50 years, you drank 4,563 gallons of water.

If you can fit two gallons in each shopping bag, you would still have to carry 2,282 bags home.

Saturday, July 21, 2007

Hot dog size

At approximately six inches in length per hot dog, you would need 10,560 hot dogs to equal one mile.

You would need 16 of them to reach an eight foot ceiling in your home if you could stand them straight up.

In a football field which is 300 feet not including the end zones, you would need 600 hot dogs lined up end to end to cover the field.