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by dorfsmay 2731 days ago
And I believe this is were the clean plate mentality came from, only take what you need, the rest can be saved for a later meal.

Having said that, as a kid and teenager I always felt that I could it a bigger portion so always took "too much", and finishing it once I was no longer hungry was never an issue. In that sense, clean plate mentality was a problem.