To wonder if people actually can eat a full takeaway?

[Inthenick]

I just got a Chinese takeaway for myself as its been a long week and DH is out for dinner tonight and I'm stuffed. There's two thirds of the rice left and half the pork dish. It's an obscene amount of food for one person. Does anyone ever actually manage the full portion sent and if not, why don't they just send a real sized portion or at least indicate how many portions are in each tub. I feel designated at how much I've had to throw in the bin. I wish I liked it the next day but never can face eating it in the cold light of day.

I'm sure my IBS is what keeps from being huge

Depends on the individual and on the meal size. Different people need different amounts of food. The same person's needs will vary day-to-day. If you are that concerned about oversized portions, only order something for half the people who will be eating it, or order a child's portion, or try a different takeaway, or maybe just cook dinner yourself?

Takeaways will be more concerned about people thinking they've not been given enough food rather than too much. Their regular customers are the mainstay of their business - the regulars who buy from them every week, or more often. The portion size is dictated by the needs of these people, people who by the very fact they are frequent customers of takeaways are probably overweight and have a larger appetite.

Worrying about portions being large suggests that your worries in life are rather small, so congratulations for that.

I had a lovely chicken and mushroom pukka pie, HUGE savaloy, half a small chips and a whole tub of ice cream yesterday for dins. Was stuffed but in a very happy place!

Never ONCE have me and OH shared anything from the chippie! he'd take my arm off if I went for his haddock!

Todays lunch was a cornish pasty (also from chippie) and dinner was a chip butty with the leftover chips. Waste not, want not!

Yes! But then I'm a hungry fat bastard lol! Xx

Sadly yes. I need to diet......

I think you probably do have abnormally large appetites Korma

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

korma I'm with you!!

Like hell am I sharing my fish anyway.

korma I'm with you. There's some typically MN portion competitiveness on this thread.

I feel like such a pig reading this thread. The answer is yes, easily.

I had a Chicken Tikka Masala, a portion of rice (to myself), two decent sized onion bahjees (sp) and two popadoms last night. And yes, I finished it all

This is really shallow but I'm always seriously put off men with small appetites.

I once went on a date with a guy who had a starter as a main as he thought the main courses were too big. That one was over before it began.

On my first date with dp we had nibbles, a starter each, a main each and a pudding each. March made in heaven.

Match even, not March.

I'm overweight, but can usually eat most of a main portion of Chinese and about a quarter of a rice portion. I do have a banana fritter afterwards though.

I was really shocked to find that a standard takeaway portion, is supposed to feed two people!
In my house, we always have at least one each, plus a couple of extras on the side.