Portion Sizes !!!

MrsE_2

tandraig wrote: »

a nutritionist told my daughter that a perfect portion of meat is the size of the palm of your hand! just hope your OH doesnt have hands like shovels!.

Mine really does have hands like shovels, one of his is my two hands. His wedding ring is triple z.

MrsE_2

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.

I would eat pizza & chips together, thats a carb overload.
I wouldn't eat cauliflower or carrots with pizza or chips.

Mind you I'm one of those people who has set ideas about what goes with what & I don't step outside the box.

Penelope_Penguin

As this has fallen from the front page of OS, I'll add it to the existing thread on portion sizes

Penny. x

celyn90

I must admit I've had to be sneaky in the past and make meat look like more than it is - even though the portion size is right, some people don't think it isn't enough. With chops, I tend to slice down the middle and spread them out (or stuff them), thin steaks can be beaten out and rolled round a stuffing or sliced and served stir fry style, sausages can be cut up and made into mini toad in the holes, chicken and fish formed into nuggets - and so on.

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.

But this would cost the same if it was a meat pizza or a veggie one. I don't think I could eat half a pizza - let alone with all the other stuff and dessert. I would argue that portion control is important regardless of the type of food and that I would be more inclined to control the sugar and processed element.

I was a very strict veggie for many years (for no reason other than fussiness!) and found pulse dishes cheap to cook (once you had the right spices in) but fresh veg, tofu, soya milk (which I virtually lived on as dairy does me no favours) more costly. I buy tofu in my local Chinese supermarket and it's cheaper than the supermarket - but weight for weight it's not much different to meat cost-wise. Nuts are also horrifically expensive. I now eat very small amounts of certain meats and eggs as well (infrequently) - but it is still the veg that kills the food budget. I'm lucky OH isn't that fussy

Ambersuccubus

Making your own tofu cuts the cost exponentially - you can get just under a kilo of tofu AND the same of okara (soybean fibre - quite tasty when used properly as a bulker, enricher and binder) from about 500g of soy beans, which, being pulses, are not that expensive.

BexInLondon

Portion-wise I use a dinner plate for OH and a lunch plate for me. He plays loads of rugby and football and is Type I diabetic so very lean, so he needs to eat about double what I do. When we first got married I served myself the same as him, so he lost weight and I put it on.

Bogof_Babe

Actually I am not a veggie, but as OH is, when we eat together it is always veggie, as I can't be bothered to mess around doing separate meals. When I'm away at our flat I will have a (bought) chicken pie or a packet of ham, so I get my fix that way.

A condition of him going vegetarian after 15 years of eating meat and fish, which used to make my life much easier, is that he will eat whatever is put in front of him provided it has no meat or fish or extracts of these in it. He is perfectly happy with odd mixtures of meals, never complains and always clears his plate. We have quite a limited repertoire as I react badly to Quorn so can't eat it _pale_, neither of us are over keen on pasta, and don't like anything too spicy. Pizzas and eggs are our main stand-by, also the Linda McCartney range which is very good and tastes almost like real meat.

There are times when I would love to cook up a sunday roast, but it's too much hassle just for me. Anyway, we eat to live, not live to eat, so as long as we're fed we're not too worried what it is!

celyn90

Bogof_Babe wrote: »

also the Linda McCartney range which is very good and tastes almost like real meat.

Ohh I love some of this stuff, especially the pasties I don't like pasta very much either, I will cook it (normally really really badly :rotfl:) for OH as he loves it and I will have the sauce (whatever it is, as long as it isn't pesto or too meat/dairy heavy _pale_ ) with veg, bread or potatoes instead I'm also lucky in that OH will eat what he's given too - I would really pity him if he had to cook. It can be really hard catering for a mixture of tastes cel x

Rebekah24

I usually just use a 250ml tuppaware for myself, I use that as a serving guide- ie soup, rice, beans..go in there. Thats usually a fair serving for one

kazmeister

I havent read all pages of this so apologies if its already been said but I think this page is good

http://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/perfect_portions