to think cooking two fillets of fish for one person is a bit much?

[MarianneSolong]

I'm going out. Spouse is cooking two salmon fillets for himself. I think it's a bit greedy and he should either have just one - or save the packet for a night when we're both in.

If they are the salmon fillets in a vacpack packet from the supermarket then yabvvu . Its all very well cutting down on meat for ethical reasons but if you undo all those ethis by buying stuff with excessive and unnecessary packaging thrn you are just adding to the globsl crisi.

If it was two fillets from a fishmonger who ethically sources their products and wrps it in sustainable packaging then ywbu to not buy bigger portions.

There's not much to a salmon fillet, but I'm thinking of the ones from Tesco that are maybe the width and length of two fingers. I could eat two myself with some bread, butter and a bit of salad.

'What sad, joyless lives you seem to lead'

'Wow, it must be a bundle of fun at mealtimes in your house op '

Where is this parallel universe where over consumption of oily fish is what constitutes fun? That is indeed sad and joyless - I can list about 700 more fun things to do than scoffing two salmon fillets.

Do you all have 'meat sweats' parties as well?

TwoSmellyDogs I think it's more of a case that the op's husband can't get anything right. Poor man.

I think yes it is a bit much. I'd be annoyed if we were on a tight budget and he was expecting you to make sacrifices and efforts he wasn't prepared to. But if money / general attitude wasn't a big deal, I wouldn't care or give it a second thought.

I'd say 2 "typical" salmon fillets would be gluttonous. depends on his height, muscle mass, work and exercise level. My DH has a manual job and cycles 30miles daily with 80 plus at a weekend. He is not gluttonous. He is feeding his body to function.

I eat 2 sometimes with salad ..if I have no carbs I'm eating 2 might throw in some sauteed garlic mushrooms to finish ...

'meat sweats' parties

My dh is an adult. He is free to consume whatever he wishes in our home. I would be pissed off if my partner thought he/she had a say in what or how much I chose to eat.

I think if he's taking all the good stuff whilst refusing to let you fully boil a kettle and preventing you from having things your family considers to be a treat food then that's pretty nasty.

If that is not the case then the man can eat what ever he wants because he's a grown up same as you.

2 pieces each for us and I'd we're a busy hungry family.
How can you tell him how much he can have? And the kettle thing sounds bonkers.

The other week I'd bought a packet of two sea bream fillets while he was out and cooked one for myself. It was small but delicious and I thought how my partner would enjoy the other one. In fact my husband who had said he'd eat while he was out, but came back late not having eaten and I fried the remaining fillet for him, and he really did appreciate it.

And yesterday I'd bought a couple of pastries - we don't tend to have much cake around - and saved one for him.

So I suppose I felt I was sharing the good stuff I bought with him and/or saving him half. Whereas he was buying good stuff and eating it all himself.

Not that it matters hugely.

Anyway it's interesting to know how much other people do or don't eat.

My very skinny kids would eat 2 fillets i.e. 2 x 100g. If you have agreed to scrimp on food then YANBU but I think for the average person 2 fillets is pretty normal.

I'd want the salmon eaten ASAP leaving it for another day means that you then have one fillet to eat between two and it's a day older, which is never great when it comes to fish.
Sounds like you have bigger issues than the fish though - you don't seem happy with they way he treats you?

Salmon portions these days are so tiny yet so delicious so two would be heaven... mmmm... I like a nice thai spice crust too.

Oh you are naughty, OP, teasing us with tales of double salmon and small yet delicious sea bream fillets and shared pastries and teeny steaks. Its like a parsimonious M&S advert.

Is Additional context the new accepted way of applying a drip feed when initial responses don't look promising?

It's a bit of fish. Unless you're struggling money-wise, just trust that he's aware of how hungry he is.

I can understand why you'd be miffed if you are on a tight budget.

Otherwise if he wants to eat 2 bits of salmon then just let him get on with it. Although I personally couldn't eat that much.

Kind of depends what he was having with it, big side salad and jacket spud, YANBU, just a handful of peas and sweet corn you are.
Best I not comment on the stingy 4 ounce steak. But yes, salmon fillets are getting smaller each, they are going the same way as wagon wheels which used to be massive!!!!

If I gave everyone two fresh salmon fillets it would cost loads- about £1.50 each is it? So £18 just on the fish (6 of us) plus the rest of the meal.

And a 4oz steak is a quarter pounder which were a normal size burger when I was small.

I would happily eat two. YABU. Sounds like spouse is not entirely on board with the limiting meat/fish regime.

I don't understand this approach at all. I try to eat a mix of foods, including veggie, fish etc. and not too much red meat. That said, when I'm having a steak, I'm having a steak. All of it. Mine.

I would rather eat an 8oz steak less often than a tiny portion of meat when the meat is the focus. Obvs if you're stir-frying / currying or similar it's a bit different.

OP I think YA probably BU in policing the food intake of a grown man (unless additional context if that the fillets were giant, not those teeny tiny 4oz ones you tend to get in the supermarket). YANBU for being peeved that he's shovelling loads of fish down his gob but not letting you have a proper cup of tea (Water must be freshly drawn and boiled damn it. And we'll have none of that milk in first nonsense )

This is bonkers as most packet salmon fillets are bloody miniscule :$