To think tha more than one carb for dinner is unnecessary (and will probably make you fat if done regularly)

[HackerFucker22]

Just back from a friends and had a very interesting debate over dinner.

We all had homemade pizza and garlic bread which was bloody lovely but I made a comment about having a "carb on carb" meal to be met with blank stares... I explained further and not one person seemed to think there was anything odd about eating so many carbs at once.

There were 6 of us and I am the only fat one.

Half of the group said they have more than one carb with dinner "quite often" examples were jacket spuds served with Lasagne, some type of bread with pasta dishes and curry with rice and Naan - one friend has very posh bread on the table with every evening meal

We're all in our 30's, mostly have kids and jobs so no time for excessive gym attendance.

AIBU to think they are all talking utter shite?

"To be honest I'm surprised that so many people do eat double carbs. It would never occur to me to serve chips or a baked potato with something like lasagne."

Same here.

No but presumably you'd serve garlic bread?

That reminds me of a pub I used to go to for lunch with that used to serve jacket potatoes garnished with crisps!

I don't serve anything with lasagne except salad or veg (kids don't like lettuce so sometimes easier). Unless it's a bit small for the number of people.

I do often do rice and naan though with curry.

i I suppose I do occasionally serve garlic bread with pasta but it's not the norm. Too much stodge.

Would be too much stodge for me.

I enjoy low carb meals- meat with veg.

I agree with you OP. Never understood bread and potatoes or pasta and bread/chips....too bland and too much stodge

The other really wrong thing for me is macaroni cheese pie!?! Or pie on a bread roll?!? I moved to scotland in my late teens and was horrified by the double carb snacks

We do a lot of long distance cycling so high carb meals are fairly frequent. I've never paid much attention to how many different types of carb there are just whether the total amount is right for the amount of activity we're doing. My husband is Scottish though and my family are from NE England so multicarb backgrounds. My thin as a pin nanna used to serve mashed potato and roast potato and yorkshire puddings. This was regarded as normal. One type of potato only was definitely not trying hard enough.

Sunday dinner is the exception that proves the rule though! For any other meal double carbs are not required!

"No but presumably you'd serve garlic bread?"

Not usually, no. It is too filling and stodgy. I normally just do salad with lasagne. IMO some people must serve really stingy portions of lasagne to require another carb with it.

The other really wrong thing for me is macaroni cheese pie!?! Or pie on a bread roll?!? I moved to scotland in my late teens and was horrified by the double carb snacks

macaroni pies are the food of buddha Gods

It's not that you "require" another carb with it, it's just that many people including me think that garlic bread and lasagne go well together. I would eat a smaller portion of lasagne if having it with garlic bread though, and I like salad too, a proper salad not just a wet lettuce leaf and a tasteless tomato. I'm really in to my salads these days and have made several fruit vinegars this summer.

We often have rolls stuffed with crisps (and butter) for mid-morning snack at work. I love macaroni pies too. Our local baker makes a wonderful pie that contains sausage, egg and black pudding. That's probably my favourite pie ever.

hackerfucker technically anorexic is the adjective, anoretic is the noun (person who is anorexic is an anoretic. Cutting up food into tiny pieces is anorexic behaviour). Not really something that matters though since most people use anorexic = both.

You're probably right OP but your thread title sounds a bit "tut tut" disapproving in food-bore fashion. I wouldn't want to be enjoying a meal and have a person at the table bring up "carbs on carbs" topic. Couldn't you just have enjoyed and appreciated the meal, particularly as you weren't hosting it? Better that, than to instigate a debate about food surely.

People have different metabolism some can get away with eating carbs regularly, some can't. Im one who cant as it sends my weight sky high so I stick to my limits which drives me up the wall Just do you and leave your friends to what suits them presumably they're fairly happy with the way they eat.

The word "carb" really has me reaching for my trusty service revolver. Surely I'm not alone..........

You are not alone. But as I said down the thread, once it's reached a GCSE mark scheme as an acceptable alternative to carbohydrate, we arelooking into the abyss...

Has anyone mentioned a chip sandwich yet?

...or jam/marmalade on toast?

(Bert/Fallen - waste of syllables saying carbohydrate when carb will do.)

White processed carbs are laden with calories and very little in the way of nutritional content, and pretty much instantly turn into sugar once you've eaten them. They also don't taste of much unless you smother them in fat, salt and/or sugar, so what really is the point?!

I'm not a massive carb fan and probably only eat a portion of carbs once or twice a week.

White carbs taste lovely. Particularly when combined with lovely saturated fat. The problem isn't that they are easily converted to sugar. On a biological level that's an efficient way of providing energy. The problem is that many people are too sedentary/lazy to utilise the energy. Hence its a too inactive lifestyle that's the issue, not the carbs. If that means practically some individuals do need to eat low carbs, that's fine. But bear in mind it's not the metabolic qualities of carbs that are the issue, it's the fact you don't have the healthy activity levels.
mackerel for me the point is they are a great form of energy, like they are supposed to be. And are therefore eaten in large quantities regularly to match. And as said they taste lovely.

White processed carbs are laden with calories and very little in the way of nutritional content, and pretty much instantly turn into sugar once you've eaten them. They also don't taste of much unless you smother them in fat, salt and/or sugar, so what really is the point?!

Because smothered in fat, salt and/or sugar they're bloody delicious?

at the risk of being really harsh, a fat person should not lecture others on healthy eating.

not that a normal weight person should either unless it is their job.

"at the risk of being really harsh, a fat person should not lecture others on healthy eating.

not that a normal weight person should either unless it is their job."

Nobody should lecture anyone on healthy eating. But a fat person might know as much, if not more about the subject as a normal weight one. So the weight of the potential lecturer is immaterial.