Originally Posted by
chgoeditor
I'm an oddity when it comes to food. I'm a very adventurous eater, but there's some stuff I almost never eat. The average American allegedly eats 71 pounds of ketchup a year, and I may use the equivalent of two or three fast-food packets a year (maybe a twice that if we make meatloaf, which we make very infrequently).
In a typical year, we might consume one bottle of ketchup. That’s maybe 1/2 pound each. This year was different. We bought a bottle every Air BnB stay, so now I have 4 partial ketchup bottles in the fridge. Good reminder to look at the expiration dates.