Portion Sizes !!!

spethmeister

We used to always have 2 chops each, with loads of mash and tonnes of veg.

Now we are both overweight, (borderline obese but part of mine is baby weight!) and I have decided the big portions, as much as we love them, have got to go!!

I now buy meat in packs but when I get them home I seperate it out into portions before freezing it so we're less likely to over do it. If we want more on our plates it's steamed veg and we're both losing weight nicely!

Just the one chop these days!!

purpleivy

I don't serve chops here as a rule, get pork steaks, or slice some pork shoulder OR when we get a lamb and there are chops, or more often cutlets, then I usually serve them one each as part of a 'grill' type meal, so might be sausage, liver, etc. I would do 2 lamb cutlets to a portion.

I don't think my OH has ever complained about the portions I serve, he wouldn't dare! He knows that I know what is good for him.:D He does overrule that often in the drinks dept!

Having said that, dh isn't big, in fact smallish. DS likes me to serve his dinner as I give him the right amount. He gets overfaced sometimes at his gran's when he does it himself! grandma's food is soo good though, isn't it?

shellsuit

Bogof_Babe wrote: »

Lol sorry was just out dishing up. Half each of a huge £1 Iceland pizza, oven chips (say 50p), a third of a gigantic Co-op cauli, on offer @ 80p so about 27p, big carrot say 10p, and to follow half a £1 Iceland lemon cheesecake.

Wow that is a lot for so little price!

I was thinking at first i could easily polish off one of those pizzas on my own, then I thought, yep, I could do half with chips, but I don't know if I could eat the veg too, then a pudding aswell!





I couldn't go without meat, wish I could though seeing how cheap a vegi can eat!

Bongedone

Bogof_Babe wrote: »

Lol sorry was just out dishing up. Half each of a huge £1 Iceland pizza, oven chips (say 50p), a third of a gigantic Co-op cauli, on offer @ 80p so about 27p, big carrot say 10p, and to follow half a £1 Iceland lemon cheesecake.

Is that cauli and carrot on the same plate as pizza and chips? That is just weird if that is the case. Unless you have turned it into colslaw.

misscousinitt

These days I always go with about 4oz meat each (with the exception of some roast dinners!!!) (in the past we would have double that)...just need to be full at the end of the meal...there are other things that they can fill up on.

hotcookie101

We would have 2 lamb chops, or 1 pork chop each. My OH would eat twice that though and if we bought lamb chops in a pack of 6-we might have 3 each (yum lamb chops)

I reckon on 200g ish per person if it is a chunk of meat on the plate, if its stew or chilli etc can be less (eg recently made chilli with 600g stewing steak, and got 6-7 portions from it, but also had 2 tins of beans and 3 tins tomatoes in there too)

I prefer to have a decent portion of meat, less frequently than have a bit I can't see on my plate lol

Bogof_Babe

Bongedone wrote: »

Is that cauli and carrot on the same plate as pizza and chips? That is just weird if that is the case. Unless you have turned it into colslaw.

Oh we have had weirder than that! We don't follow the "rules" - we make it up as we go along, and haven't suffered too much indigestion yet!

charliee_3

i would probably go for 2 chops but then I KNOW my portion sizes are waaaaay too big and have the extra stones to proove it... but my OH doesnt like meat on the bone so if i do chops i have to cut his off the bone (yes i know...) and it looks like NOTHING when its like that...

I really want to cut down my potion sizes, but i really hate feeling short changed. i was brought up to have a piled plate and with the motto that the last mouthful is the most delicious drummed into me so we ate it all up..

i think smaller plate are the answer but its really hard these days to find something plain, between a dinner plate and a side plate as all dinner plates seem to come in enormous or huge sizes only these days...

Welshwoofs

charliee wrote: »

i think smaller plate are the answer but its really hard these days to find something plain, between a dinner plate and a side plate as all dinner plates seem to come in enormous or huge sizes only these days...

Try a portion plate

I got the male version for my Father and he's lost about 3 stone so far!

MrsE_2

ALIBOBSY wrote: »

My understanding is a portion size of each type of food should be the size of your OWN fist. IE OH should get slightly bigger portions than me and the kids corresponding amounts.
So its a fist size bit of meat, and the same of carbs, and AT LEAST the same of veg/salad. Obviously you can have more veg/salad.

Thats a good way of measuring it.

I always thought it was 8 ozs is a portion.

Pork chops are fairly big (don't eat pork) so I would have thought one very large one enough, but I guess for £1 each they are not large?

Lamb chops are so expensive you need loads, one bite of meat on each chop:rolleyes: