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To think this is a perfectly fine meal?

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QuestionableMouse · 30/12/2017 16:53

My main meal of the day. I've had a cheese scone so far all day. Aunt just wandered past and made a comment on what I'm eating. Apparently it's greedy.

She's now sulking in the living room with my parents because I told her it wasn't greedy.

It's about 50g turkey, 50g cheese, five or six slices of beetroot and a tablespoon of pickle. Bread is about half an inch per slice.

Its all delicious and I'm really enjoying it too.

To think this is a perfectly fine meal?
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Original poster
QuestionableMouse · 30/12/2017 18:47

Beetroot is lovely.

I had a big bowl of fruit salad for afters.

For the poster who said it was more than 50g of turkey, it really wasn't. I bought two slices of turkey that came to just under 100g and only ate one of them.😂

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Bowerbird5 · 30/12/2017 18:50

Yeah, who cares?
It looks delicious. I love Christmas leftovers.

Confesses: I ate the ham...mmm lovely ham sandwich for lunch. That's it all gone no waste at all this year. Debating whether it is worth cooking something on NYD as only me here now😩 DH away, sons working DD and cat gone home today.
Going out tomorrow night for steak and haggis and music😄 and I don't have to drive!

NeedsAsockamnesty · 30/12/2017 18:53

I dont each much but I would be happy with that as a meal

noeffingidea · 30/12/2017 18:54

Completely normal meal, to me. I don't eat meat but I eat similar meals with cheese or some other non meat things. I prefer this sort of meal to hot food.

demirose87 · 30/12/2017 18:56

That's a light lunch, not greedy at all. I hate when people comment on others food, its none of their business. Maybe your aunt wanted a bite of it herself.

Goodgirl7 · 30/12/2017 18:57

Ummm I just ate a little bowl of chilli with a huge stack of crackers and what can only be described as most of a tub of coleslaw. Sorry not sorry. You’re not greedy. I find that these comments either come from someone who has been a serial (unsuccessful) dieter or someone Uber skinny with no idea how to eat an adult plate of food.

Goodgirl7 · 30/12/2017 18:59

Interesting comment actually, would it have been made if you were her nephew eating the same? I fear not.

PeonyBucket · 30/12/2017 18:59

I bloody love pickled beetroot

There's enough room in the world for people who bloody love pickled beetroot, and those who like it hot as a vegetable and without acidic adulteration. It's a trigger for me. Being fed pickled beetroot and potted meat sandwiches as a child, for Sunday tea, still lives with me.

I'm almost NC with mil because I once told her I liked beetroot.
She bought some fresh raw beetroot, boiled it, cooled it in the fridge and then sprinkled it with vinegar. From her pov she went to a lot of trouble to please me. From my pov she ruined it. I ate a meagre amount and she was obviously majorly pissed off with me.
Next time I visited I took one of those small vacuum packs of plain boiled beetroot to go with the salad. She sprinkled it with vinegar before she served it up. This time I was pissed off with her.
It's still the elephant in the room whenever we meet. I haven't the heart to explain it to her. Too much time has passed.

On the upside, I'm quite happy to let her continue to think I'm just an awkward sod. As a dil I quite enjoy a bit of disharmony of taste and custom. Mil's favourite pudding, rennet, (however that horrible salty mixture became favourite as a pudding) is a case in point.

Salty yucky messy pile of sicky jelly stuff. I had to rush off and spit it out at my first xmas with the in-laws. It did not endear me to them.

Chienrouge · 30/12/2017 19:01

I’ve never had rennet but it sounds vile.
When I was a skint student I used to snack on jars of pickled beetroot. Then wonder why my wee was pink.

Bowerbird5 · 30/12/2017 19:03

Have you had it roasted Q mouse?

LoniceraJaponica · 30/12/2017 19:04

Peony don't you mean junket? My mum used to make it using rennet. Rennet in itself is not a dessert. It is complex of enzymes produced in the stomachs of ruminant mammals. It curdles the casein in milk and is used to make cheese, and junket.

I used to love it.

Original poster
QuestionableMouse · 30/12/2017 19:13

Yes, I love beetroot roasted too, especially with plenty of black pepper.

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April229 · 30/12/2017 19:32

Looks lovely - not big enoug( for a main meal. Essentially a cheese and turkey sandwich with pickles that has been organised on a plate.

Enjoy and go back for seconds!

PeonyBucket · 30/12/2017 19:34

Peony don't you mean junket

Yes, I probably do. The pudding was unfamiliar to me at the time and I was expecting something sweet. My in-laws are Cornish, I was visiting them for the first time in St Ives. I'm from the north ish of the UK (York) and I just picked up on the word 'rennet' when they were explaining what it was that they had lovingly prepared for me.

In return, I made them some hot pork pie and mushy peas. They were doubtful as to whether this was a feasible combination
They ate it and they liked it, so all good. However, I doubt I'd choose to eat junket again. It really depends on what you are brought up eating.
Desserts, pudding, afters, whatever you want to call them, were not a part of my upbringing. You just ate your one course dinner or tea.

Dinner is what you eat at 12 noon.
Tea is what you eat when you get home from work at 7pm.
(Even if it's a roast, it's still tea)
Supper is some toast and jam at around 10pm.

And junket as a pudding comes as a shock, to some.

specialsubject · 30/12/2017 19:34

Beetroot is food, and therefore good.

Smoothies , cereal bars, diet food, similar crap are not food and the cries of revulsion should be directed at those.

BumWad · 30/12/2017 19:36

Looks fine

—although far too boring for me—

AlexaAmbidextra · 30/12/2017 19:44

Ffs. I just knew there would be one on this thread who commented on the lack of fruit and/or veg. I have not been disappointed. Hmm

FoggieFishieCarpeDiem · 30/12/2017 19:48

Alexa

Oops Blush 🙊

(But it is kind of true, isn’t it? Or AIBU?)

mywayalltheway · 30/12/2017 20:18

Really pisses me off when people comment on how much someone is eating, tell her you're not a child and can decide for yourself how much food is too much. Certainly doesn't look a lot to me.

Chienrouge · 30/12/2017 20:20

FoggieFishieCarpeDiem YABU. It’s one meal. There’s nothing to say the OP hasn’t had 10 portions of fruit and veg across the day (she says she had a fruit salad afterwards).
It’s pointless to comment on the lack of veg in one meal, in isolation.

Zatsuma · 30/12/2017 20:26

Why on earth is that not enough for a meal for some posters? If you don't tell people that their plate is too big and they eat too much, why should it be acceptable to tell them the plate is too small?
Some weeks you eat a lot, some weeks you eat little, what's the big deal

FoggieFishieCarpeDiem · 30/12/2017 20:30

Chienrouge well, she said that it was her main meal... but anyhow, ok.

It just looks a bit... unhealthy to me. And right after Christmas and before NYE? But that’s just how I personally reacted when I saw the OP’s plate...

Chienrouge · 30/12/2017 20:31

And right after Christmas and before NYE?

Why is that significant?

She said it was her first proper meal of the day. And that she followed it with a fruit salad. Bread, meat, cheese, beetroot and fruit. Hardly the worst meal in the world.

FoggieFishieCarpeDiem · 30/12/2017 20:38

Chien

Yes...but my comment about the lack of fruit and the small amount of vegetables was made at 17:46:25. Before the OP made the update about the fruit salad, I think?

Anyhow. That was just my reaction.

(And it’s significant because many people eat too much / unhealthy things on Christmas and NYE... but as I said, that was just my personal reaction. I might have been 100% wrong...)

Amanduh · 30/12/2017 20:44

😂😂😂😂 at people saying it does look like a large portion 😂😂😂