To think people eat one heck of a lot!

I suspect the lovely @BunnyRuddington with the Sweet Pea window sill constipation issues is a Southerner. I find they respond well to the softly, softly sausage chat.

I don't really know what many other people eat except my brother's family as we have stayed over with them. I can't say either of our families eat 3/4 large hot meals plus snacks per day.

Mind you, I don't think a bowl of porridge with berries is a particularly large breakfast. I do eat that often or Greek yogurt, berries and nuts for breakfast. A common breakfast for my brother's family is bagels with avocado. A full English would be an occasional thing at the weekend. None of us would be up for it at the early breakfast time we have during the week. My lunch is usually soup in winter and salad in summer, occasionally a sandwich or maybe an omelette, but I often miss lunch as I'm busy. My DC are actually bad at skipping breakfast and not eating much lunch either. My 13yo might have a snack in the afternoon. My 17yo will eat a decent dinner and sometimes some leftovers or a yogurt and fruit in the evening. My 13yo is quite picky so doesn't always eat a decent dinner- it depends what it is. My brother's family tend to have a good dinner in the evening too but neither of us have huge portions.

Sometimes dinners people describe on here do sound quite large to me but not really other meals. However, I was flamed for saying the portions you get in Hello Fresh are large. I buy a box for 2 but it feeds 3 of us. So maybe we aren't representative of most families.

Our family is vegetarian and my brother's is vegan so we do eat our fair share of 'rabbit food' - I have had the odd person make that comment but generally they were the kind of person that ate quite a rubbish diet. I would imagine the average 'omnivore' eats plenty of 'rabbit food' alongside the meat.

Well done on trying a sweeter approach there @fgswhywouldIdothat, luring her with sausages, good call. I went straight for @BunnyRuddington ’s jugular, thought the shock would tough-love her into doing it but I failed.

Then you can come back inside for some steaming sausage with optional other stuff you mentioned

PUT THEM IN THE GROUND DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT

Will that work? They're going to go all straggly if you leave them inside. Get them pinched out, and get them out there. Couple of glugs from the watering can. Enjoy.

Jokes aside though I once babysat a friends twins aged 9. Both of them were grossly obese, huge bellies etc. Those two mithered me all evening for snacks, cakes, chocolate biscuits. They'd eaten a big dinner before I got there. They had complete meltdowns when I said no. Their parents just let them eat all day.
I felt incredibly sad for them.

Just back to confirm that the Sweetpeas are still on the windowsill and I am indeed still on my Big Lazy Fat Arse! We had sausage chips and green beans as that’s all that DH can seem to cook these days. Have no idea why, he used to be a better cook than me.

GO AND PLANT YOUR SWEET PEAS YOU BIGLAZYFATARSE @BunnyRuddington WHAT ARE DOING SITTING THERE EATING ONE HOT MEAL AFTER ANOTHER LIKE SOME KIND OF 1950S NORTHERN STEELWORKER??? EH??

People will call you a dee-dar, could you imagine? You’ll be fired off the Dunkirk flyover.

Am writing this while tucking into my big ole plate of garlic butter chicken and sauté potatoes. Bloody lovely it is too.

Still not planted out my Sweetpeas. Will someone tell me to do it please.

Plus the opposite is actually true in reality. You can’t mindlessly eat a hot meal, you have to consciously cook it. Grabbing a slice of cake otoh requires no extra thought.

I suspect if most people only ate hot food they would actually be slimmer.

That is so cute! 🥰

This. I never understand the people who think that eating more than one hot meal a day is 'too much' or why people are overweight.

The temperature food is served at is nothing to do with how nutritious, calorific or 'big' a meal is. Hot food could be an omelette or soup with lots of vegetables and pulses. Cold food could be processed cereal, sandwiches, crisps etc. Anything could be in small or large portions.

I would happily eat that on a daily basis.

My average workday looks like this
Poached egg on sourdough
Banana
Homemade vegetable soup
Spaghetti bolognese made with lean mince pulled out with lentils and extra vegetables

Approx 1500 calories based on my portion sizes and ingredients but could be made less or more by tweaking the quantities, swapping the banana for an apple etc.

I should be eating approx 1500-2000 calories depending how much of a deficit I want. I am not overweight and can lose the weight on the scales but not really the inner fat. That has nothing to do with me having 3 meals that are hot though, it's all to do with what exercise I do and how much wine I drink sometimes..

Just now, at 607am? Wild!

My neighbour has offered to split some top soil. 🤗

Of course 🤣

I’m really thinking about this image @Lilyhatesjaz. Did you sit side by side with a bag of sprouts between you sharing nicely? Maybe with a Christmas special on the telly and granny half pissed ‘resting her eyes’ at the other end of the sofa?

Talk of rabbit food reminds how I used to share a bag of sprouts with my rabbit at Christmas, no one else would touch them.

I've definitely heard people claim that if a meal isn't of a certain temperature it doesn't exist haha.

And people call anything salady 'rabbit food' which gives a bit of insight into the state of their arteries I'm sure!

But yes, there is definitely a huge problem with gluttony and overeating in the UK, hence why such a huge proportion of people are overweight and even obese.

Porridge and fruit for breakfast
Jacket potato for lunch
cottage pie for tea

Yes they are 3 hot meals but what’s wrong with that eating that?! Some people don’t like cold food. As long as the Cottage pie was homemade and had some veggies on the side I’d consider that a healthy diet. Abit carb heavy for me but I wouldn’t bat an eyelid if someone ate that.

Cottage pie is also hardly a heavy meal. In normal portion size anyway. Unless you eat it with chips or something.

definitely would be if I lived on pulses.

life is too short to count choc chips! I do agree though that sprinkling any additions into the raw pancake batter once you have spooned it out is MUCH better than stirring into the batter in the bowl. You can make pictures too.

I made pancakes with strawberries and choc chips for a late dinner around 8pm last night. I cut the strawberries into very small pieces and carefully put some into each pancake in the pan after spooning the batter out along with 7 choc chips each. I used the tip of a knife to press them into the batter and submerge them. The pancakes turned out beautifully and we ate them with maple syrup.
I think 7 choc chips is the perfect amount per pancake. I used to put 6 choc chips in each, but took a chance at 7 and am very glad I did. I've tried putting choc chips straight into the mixing bowl, but the result is not good as some pancakes end up with too many choc chips, or clumps of choc chips, and some have too few.
Although a tad tedious, a much better result comes from carefully placing additions into the pancake in the pan.

I must be braver next year and sew outside