Nash: The hunger games — Small meals have benefits, but aren't easy to find on the menu - Local News Matters

Nash: The hunger games — Small meals have benefits, but aren't easy to find on the menu - Local News Matters

AS MY FATHER got older, he took to negotiating his restaurant orders with the waiters. My dad wanted half-size meals, even of things that don’t typically come in halves, like hamburgers.“Just put half the burger on the plate and leave the other half in the kitchen,” he would say. “I’ll pay for the whole thing.”This usually required some back and forth about how he really, really didn’t want the other half wrapped up to go.Susan Nash is a recent …