Is this too big a portion?

I've had hearts - and brains! - in the past but wouldn't have them now. I like tongue and used to work in a pub where the landlady used to cook, press (and peel - yuk!) tongue. Not had the other stuff though I'd probably try them.

What is wrong with you!!!

No ketchup, just mayo!!

The rest I’ll go with……..

But I have a mad guilty pleasure (awaits to be massively judged), take away the cheese and replace with …. Creamed mushrooms (no sauces required) so think of the saved calories from the ketchup and mayo 😆.

Don’t ask me how I know and do not judge me until you’ve tried it!

I don’t think it’s that much and I’m someone that doesn’t eat a lot. My tiny 8yr old wld have a gd go at this. I’d give her 4 fingers an less potatoes.

Seems like a totally normal portion to me, not big! But I’ve been known to eat a Big Mac meal with a triple cheeseburger on the side so perhaps I’m not the best person to ask 😂

No it's a decent portion. Xxx

I don't think it's a big portion but I think you are serving your fish fingers all wrong.

You need
2 slices of white bread buttered, slathered with ketchup and mayo.
Put cheese on both sides of your bread
Add 4 fish fingers and some well salted homemade chips, quantity unknown, I do it by eye.

It's my absolute favourite way to have fishfingers and was one of my staple foods during lockdown. Partly why I gained weight but also the wine, the beer, the sitting around like a lemon...

Portion sizes are a great way to give people a rough idea of how much to eat but there really is no size fits all. Someone training for a marathon and having a very active will need to eat more than a couch potato with an office job.

The reduction in vitamin C doesn’t mean there is no vitamin C. The comment states ‘no nutritional value’. Even adding in UPF nasties there is STILL SOME NUTRITION. Even pure CHO is nutrition. If the person means ‘it’s not made of only healthy ingredients’ they should say that… not that it has NO nutritional value.

@Notmycircusnotmyotteralso two fish fingers and the veg is a meal of less than 200 calories. Either you’re massively undereating, lying or you are a major snacker.

By the time a potato has been deep fried there is less Vit C.

The other thing is the photo seems to show 'fries' more like waffles which are often coated in all kinds of stuff and would be classed as ultra processed food, compared to traditional chips, home made, either as oven chips or in a fryer.

Oh please stop shouting and getting hysterical. She didn't post about the thyroid until after I did.

Also fried potatoes absolutely have nutritional value… potato is the man source of Vitamin C in the UK diet. It also contains fibre, CHO (necessary for fuelling the brain) and potassium and some B vitamins. The oil contains fats which, while saturated is best in small amounts, is necessary for human survival. Every cell in the body has a membrane made of fats, vitamins ADEK cannot be absorbed without dietary fat, the brain is hugely made up of fats (myelin sheaths in brain tissue).

Honestly people say things have no nutritional value value when they themselves have no idea about the human body.

This makes no sense. ‘If you’re overweight it’s too much’…. So any calories overweight people eat is now over eating? OP is 5’11… her TDEE can absorb this 7-800calorie meal.

She’s overweight because she has hypothyroidism which fucks the metabolism. But that doesn’t mean she has to starve herself. She probably wouldn’t lose weight anyway because her THYROID is Under active aka her body doesn’t use up calories effectively.

Maybe too much for someone who generally isn’t a big eater or is quite petite. I’m 5 foot 7 and very active, I definitely wouldn’t say this portion is too big!

Agreed. We all have easy meal nights - and op prefaced the whole thing by saying that's what it was.

Yes, yes they are. I am loving this thread.

"I couldn't POSSIBLY eat even one whole fishfinger. You must be so fat you have to go through doors sideways. Wait - unless this was you first meal since January. Then 3 fishfingers would be ok."

An adult woman needs 45g of protein a day. There's somewhere between 13g and 25g on that place. The people falling through grates need to think about the nutrition their body needs.

I'd eat that easily. I don't eat meat or fish but when I used to, I'd definitely have a slice of bread with butter and sauce on top to make a sandwich out of some of those fingers (heaven)
If relevant: I'm a size 10, which I don't think is anyway overweight.
Enjoy!

That makes more sense! It's safety advice so you don't pour too many in at once and choke; I knew it couldn't possibly be talking about portion sizes.

And the winner of the most sanctimonious post goes to .....

I eat pretty healthily 99% of the time. I don't believe anyone who says they never eat anything that could be described as unhealthy.

😂😂
Yes, they are 😂

I think it means two mouthfulls? I mean you tip your head back and pour them in don’t you?

I noticed this the other day, who gets halfway through a tube of smarties and goes "ooh I'm stuffed, I'll save these for another day"?

It's actually really nice.

I wasn't suggesting other meals for @fishfingergate - I was pointing out that a much healthier (and far more satiating) version of her meal is as easily made as her fish fingers etc. I love fish fingers, but there's not much too them.

Fish fingers are white fish; sweet potato is nutritionally much better value for calories than UPF potato waffles; I prefer broccoli to sweetcorn & peas - so that bit of the meal is swappable!

All I was saying is that a much healthier & no UPF version of her meal is as easily made, as the OP mentioned it was the end of the week & she was tired.

I wouldn't eat that much, but my appetite is relatively small for an adult human. I know plenty of "normal" adults who would eat this much - it doesn't appear comment worthy to me.

Would you like to lose weight, OP? I only ask because you mentioned being over weight a few times.

If you would like to, reducing portion size is, in my experience, the best way to do so. You can faff around with fad diets, what you are eating, when you are eating it etc, all you like. But to lose weight you need to ingest fewer calories, and the easiest and most pain-free way to achieve this is to still eat the things you like, just less of them.

Not saying you have to. It's totally up to you. And I have no idea how you are defining "over weight", obviously.