When was the concept of eating 3 meals a day first started?

by Ameobi1
left4candy

A question from me aswell if I may. How much do we know about how they used to eat back in the days? One hearty meal in the middle of the day or several smaller ones across the day?

Searocksandtrees

There's lots of room for more input here, but fyi, you can get started here:

This may also be a question worth x-posting to our sister sub /r/AskAnthropology