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AIBU to think bacon sandwich lunch is not greedy?

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AliceNotInChains · 22/04/2026 12:55

2 small slices of bread (from a 400g loaf)
3 rashers of bacon
1 small tomato
a slice of cheese.

a family member says it’s greedy and fattening. For breakfast I had 2 weetabix and have had nothing inbetween.

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Flossette · 22/04/2026 16:42

I calorie count with my eyes everything that I eat, and there’s no way I’d eat cheese and bacon in a sandwich because I’d get fat and I don’t want to get fat. Other people have different metabolisms and are not so fussed about being fat.

SassyButClassy · 22/04/2026 16:40

The comment sounds like it came from a person who is 300+ years old and probably eats a boiled egg a year. My MIL is like this. She's rotund but swears she only eats oxygen and comments on others eating habits.

1980isitjustme · 22/04/2026 16:38

Depends if you are burning off the calories riding your two bikes or lugging a borrowed keyboard around I suppose.

pictoosh · 22/04/2026 16:38

june7836 · 22/04/2026 16:04

I mean eating a bacon sandwich in front of someone on a liquid diet and doing you a favour is pretty sadistic!

Easily rattled aren't you?

EvilParsnip · 22/04/2026 16:34

You and your sister need to take a long break from each other.

likelysuspect · 22/04/2026 16:20

Delphiniumandlupins · 22/04/2026 16:17

Is a bacon (and cheese) sandwich suitable for someone with IBS? Have you sold your bike yet? I think it's lovely you and your sister are helping each other today.

However, there seems to be a link with all your posts:
Bathroom
Birthday cake candles
Bicycle
Blackbird
Bacon

OMG is it this woman again.

Callmeback · 22/04/2026 16:17

AliceNotInChains · 22/04/2026 13:00

She’s on a liquid diet at the minute 🙄

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Then she's just projecting

Delphiniumandlupins · 22/04/2026 16:17

Is a bacon (and cheese) sandwich suitable for someone with IBS? Have you sold your bike yet? I think it's lovely you and your sister are helping each other today.

However, there seems to be a link with all your posts:
Bathroom
Birthday cake candles
Bicycle
Blackbird
Bacon

Feelingstressedbutdoingmybest · 22/04/2026 16:17

Love a bacon sandwich and don't think that was greedy at all. I am trying to cut down a bit on processed meat though.

Calliopespa · 22/04/2026 16:17

wishingonastar101 · 22/04/2026 16:14

Cheese and bacon sarnie sounds well lardy!

Yeah it's potentially quite a lot of saturated fat in one meal.

Probably delicious though!

wishingonastar101 · 22/04/2026 16:14

Cheese and bacon sarnie sounds well lardy!

ConnieHeart · 22/04/2026 16:11

AliceNotInChains · 22/04/2026 13:04

She’s round here helping me unblock my drain, I think she was jealous that I had a nice sandwich whilst she had her weird milkshake thing

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Definitely this. I'd be very jealous too! A bacon sandwich is definitely part of a balanced diet

TedDog · 22/04/2026 16:10

Lomonald · 22/04/2026 13:00

What does your relative eat ? I know if I had told my mum i had breakfast AND lunch she would ask where do I put it all! She is 74 though and eats like a bird

Yes! My 81yr old mum is the same, she doesn’t have lunch either.

rainbowunicorn · 22/04/2026 16:08

Jollyjupiter · 22/04/2026 13:33

Well it's around 1000cals with cheese added.
That food intake for just lunch snd you will def get fat.

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It is nothing of the sort. 2 slices bread from a 400g small loaf around 150 cals for the 2.
3 slices bacon around 180 cals. Slice of cheese around 100 cals for 25g. Add about 80 cals for a generous 10 g butter if used.
Around 500 cals for lunch, perfectly fine, normal amount to consume and nowhere near 1000 calories.

cheekynamechang3 · 22/04/2026 16:04

BagaChips · 22/04/2026 13:44

Yes, and the one who blew out her nephews candles on his birthday cake

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I missed that particular thread

june7836 · 22/04/2026 16:04

I mean eating a bacon sandwich in front of someone on a liquid diet and doing you a favour is pretty sadistic!

HelloItsMeYourRobotVaccuum · 22/04/2026 16:03

Sounds delicious to me!

Calliopespa · 22/04/2026 16:01

Loomis · 22/04/2026 15:57

What are you on about, where did the OP say she was eating a doughnut?

Frankly a IGAF if a doughnut is healthy or not, it's delicious and if I want to eat one then I will.

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Well let's take this step by step for you then!

Your comment was that it is only on MN that people think carbs are unhealthy.

My point was that carbs exist on a spectrum of healthiness. White bread is less healthy than wholegrain bread, which in turn is generally less healthy than, say rolled oats.

The further toward the donut end you go, the less healthy they are. White bread is further down the unhealthy end of that spectrum than many people realise. It is also very different today from the sort of "white" bread that was eaten in previous generations, because of the way it is processed.

Plenty of people outside MN recognise that many carbs are poor food choices.

ETA I mean I'm sorry that they are, because there is no-one who loves a crumpet as much as I do! But I'm not kidding myself its a good choice.

Loomis · 22/04/2026 15:57

Calliopespa · 22/04/2026 15:50

But there are carbs and carbs. A sugar coated white donut is carbs. You can't pretend it's only on MN that that isrecognised as unhealthy.

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What are you on about, where did the OP say she was eating a doughnut?

Frankly a IGAF if a doughnut is healthy or not, it's delicious and if I want to eat one then I will.

Comefromaway · 22/04/2026 15:57

You are being unreasonable for contaminating delicious bacon with cheese but otherwise a bacon sandwich is top tier, only beaten by a bacon and tomato staffordshire oatcake.

And if you grilled the bacon instead of frying it it is even better.

This person sounds like they have an unhealthy attitude to food.

ThejoyofNC · 22/04/2026 15:53

Please lord let me never be the type of person who says they can only eat a bacon sandwich a few times a year.

OriginalSkang · 22/04/2026 15:52

Greedy is a weird word to use, anyway. It implies you're taking something away from someone else, not over eating on its own (I'm not saying you were over eating, but that seems to have been their point!). If there were two bacon sandwiches and you ate hers too then that could have been seen as greedy

Calliopespa · 22/04/2026 15:50

Loomis · 22/04/2026 15:39

Most people eat bread. Most slim, healthy people eat bread and other carbs. It's only on MN that eating carbs automatically makes you a seventy stone glutton.

But there are carbs and carbs. A sugar coated white donut is carbs. You can't pretend it's only on MN that that isrecognised as unhealthy.

Calliopespa · 22/04/2026 15:49

PullTheBricksDown · 22/04/2026 13:02

Why is anyone giving their opinion on what you eat for lunch? It's up to you!

Well, she's asked us now!

So here goes: probably not greedy OP, but if the bread was white, it's a fairly unhealthy lunch, as both the cheese and bacon are high in saturated fat. Add nutritionless white carbs to that and it's moving into heart attack territory (if you always eat like that)!

If you used grainy bread, then not as bad, but I would still personally choose cheese OR bacon for a workaday lunch. Different for a burger treat if you were having a family night out etc.

Not many things are too bad to have just every so often though. But yes, if this was a regular weekday lunch I'd say the family member has a point.

Mother1981 · 22/04/2026 15:48

This! Yum