Portion sizes when you were young

ciderwithrosie_2

Definitely smaller portions when I was growing up in the 60s & 70s.

There was 5 in our family and my mum could stretch one of those pear shaped tinned hams between us with a jacket potato, peas and parsley sauce. Potatoes and other veg (often home grown) were plentiful though.

We didn't often have a joint of meat, occasionally a chicken. Liver, kidneys and heart featured in meals. My mum's corned beef pasties were a favourite, she could get 7 or 8 pasties out of one tin of corned beef (padded out with potato and onion), so there'd be some left to eat cold the next day.

Weekday pudding was usually a piece of fruit or if we were really lucky, something like Angel Delight or a giant Dundee biscuit (well the seemed as big as a plate when I was a kid). Sunday lunch pudding would be a crumble or lemon meringue pie.

A curry would only be made from leftovers, never from fresh meat and just using an elderly tin of curry powder and some sultanas chucked in.

LameWolf

dandy-candy wrote: »

OMG Suki! That sounds like a weeks worth of food on one sitting!

That's exactly what I was thinking.:o

FairyPrincessk wrote: »

Interesting about restaurant portions. I've never been one to order large meals but I was recently reminded of how much I hate being told off by restaurant staff for not finishing an enormous portion. We mostly eat out when we're 'away' somewhere and I can't take the rest with me. It starts with a 'didn't you enjoy your xxx?' and when I say, 'yes, it was lovely it was just too much for me' I get tuts and remarks of disapproval. The portions are usually around 3-4 times what I'd dish up for myself. I often wish restaurants would go with a 'small portion' option on their menus--knock a bit off the price, serve a half the normal portion and people who have small appetites or who are trying to exercise more portion control or don't like waste or excess then aren't face with either stuffing themselves to the point of feeling ill or wasting lots of food.

If I didn't finish my meal over stuffed and ashamed of not clearing my plate I'd be more inclined to have a coffee or perhaps a pudding.

Yes, yes, YES! I have a really tiny appetite, and I dread eating out for exactly the reasons FairyPrincess states. I find a plate piled up with a veritable Mount Everest of food is offputting before I even start, too.

THIRZAH

I find that a lot of restaurant meals are too big. Also so many starters these days contain meat or cheese which really fills me up. I much prefer to just have a main course and then pudding if I have room for it.