AIBU to wonder how a 30g portion is a serving size?

[IHaveBrilloHair]

When this is the whole 225g pack?
It's halloumi btw, surely 30g is a slice, who says just one slice?
Am I just greedy?

We share a pack of halloumi between 3 or 4 of us but it is never the main part of the meal. I wouldn't dream of eating the whole lot for myself in one sitting.

Oh OP. You should have had a quarter of a slice served with 2 Privett leaves. You greedy bastard 😂😂😂

@LolaSmiles
It was a coconut flavoured yoghurt, NOT some weird healthy freak thing made from coconut husks.
I'm not trying to be healthy, or unhealthy, or anything, just eating.

30g of cereal is about what I'd eat, which is ironic since I'm actually a bit overweight so I'm not a mumsnet competitive undereater.

But I'd definitely want more than one slice of halloumi!

I had halloumi this evening! Two decent slices, guacamole and roasted courgette, onions and green beans 😋

Also, a smarties portion is 16! Agree about the ridiculous breakfast cereal portions though...

If I have cereal it's two variety pack's worth, whatever that weighs.

Who is eating 1 or 2 slices of halloumi? What do they do with the rest of the pack? It won't keep for very long once opened surely. DH and I would share a pack with salad, roasted courgette, tomatoes etc. Obviously we don't have halloumi every day.

One slice is a serving OP. For a reason.

YANBU

They use 'portion size' to make it seem OK. Cereal is classic example. No one eats 30g cereal!

Always look at the 100g numbers so you can see % sugar etc. And it's usually sugar that's the issue.
Cheese is basically fat I mean no shit sherlock, but delicious and full of goodness, natural etc.

I've taught my kids to look at per 100g not the headline stuff.

The food industry pisses me off with the way they market though. No one should have to investigate the back of packet understand % etc to know what they're eating.

BrilloHair, your attitude to food is absolutely spot on: it should be neither friend nor foe, just pleasant enough fuel. Clearly that's working for you, so ignore the ascetic food police.

100g of halloumi is about 253 calories according to google. For the protein component of a meal, that's not too bad at all in terms of calories.

Probably good on a LCHF diet too

If it's your protein portion of the main meal then 60g portion is about right.

But it should only form a quarter of the meal plate. With half taken up by vegetables.

I agree on the cereal portions, 30 grams is tiny, the problem is I think the vast majority of people would not weigh their cereal or measure out their milk, so many people would assume that their bowl of cereal is ‘a portion’ and then wrongly assume it’s a low calorie breakfast when in fact it could be 2 or 3 times the calories stated on the box as these pictures demonstrate.

@Tallgreenbottle.
What is that reason?

I'd eat all that, and salad and 4 slices of bread. Probably have desert too....and be hungry later.Fuck it!

I could easily eat a whole pack of halloumi. It's delicious. Sadly I have to share with the husband.

Just looking at the nutritional information for Tesco's own halloumi. Their recommended portion contains 100 kcal, 8 grams of fat and 0.66 grams of carbohydrate. So I reckon their suggested 30 gram portion size is carefully chosen to make it appeal to calorie counters, fat reducers and low carbers. In other words, it's a marketing trick.

What do they do with the rest of the pack? Family dinner for four, or over two nights for two?

“Half the halloumi is an awful lot. Two slices at the most would be normal.”

“I agree one or two slices are a portion on a plate”

Seriously

I would serve one pack of halloumi between the three of us with a substantial salad.
I am not overweight, but I think one or two slices is really stingy.

I’d say 2 is a good portion but that’d also be with other things too. A spot of cold pasta salad or a Pitta bread and a large salad.
On its own it’s barely a snack!

I had haloumi with salad for dinner tonight. About a third of a pack. The rest will keep perfectly in a sealed Tupperware for at least a week. I weigh 9st2.

Guidelines state that adults should eat 3 portions of lower fat dairy and alternatives per day in order to meet requirements for calcium, a portion is 30g cheese, 200ml milk or 125g yoghurt. So 90g lower fat halloumi is 3 portions and not a problem if no more of that food group is eaten that day. Very simple really, it's called the Eatwell guide.

Him well I would never eat all that like that. Probably have a couple of the pieces with a salad or something else.

There's always one.

I think one slice of halloumi making two kebabs might be the new mumsnet never ending roast chicken.

4 slices of that with salad only (no rice etc) is still probably only 600ish calories which is great and on the low side for an evening meal for somebody not on a diet.