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?

It's funny isn't it. 30g of halloumi seems really tiny- half a pack easy as a salad. Yet if I was to have 100g+ of cheddar it would seem way too much. yet they are both just cheese.

@IHaveBrilloHair that looks lush 🤤

I have the same problem with Coco pops god knows how many grams my overflowing bowl is 😂

@AnAC12UCOinanOCG
Don't you mean half a gram

For cereal, get some of those "1/2 cup, 1 cup, etc" measuring scoops.
Measure a good portion, weigh it, decide if thats the portion you want, adjust as needed.
Then in future you can scoop it in instead of freepour and its much easier to keep track.

@whothedaddy

Halloumi, to me, is a good replacement for both the protein and fat elements of a meal with meat. I would usually consider it the main part of a meal. I'd never have an incy wincy bit of halloumi on the side, and I'd never eat a big bit of meat with it.

Cheddar can either be a component (ounce portion) or a main part (4 ounce portion).

Works for me!

I like Halloumi but 3 bits would be enough because I find it so so salty. To me it is a side dish.

Portion sizes do tend to seem more about marketing than what people are expected to eat.

I've never eaten halloumi in those kinds of slices, my DH always dices it up and mixes it in things, so I'm not entirely sure how much I'd normally have in a meal. I do agree though that it depends on whether you're using it more as flavouring (30g / ~1 ounce makes sense then) or as the main protein portion of a meal.

@Comefromaway

I wasn't really going to eat the whole pack...(hastily hides wrapper and prepares several portions of loo roll)

@vampirethriller - ''I take a deep breath beside some lettuce once a week and find I don't need anything else til the following Easter."

Really lolled at that

A pp up thread mentioned her MIL. Mine too is like a tiny bird. 5 foot nothing and could hide behind your finger. She's always on about how she must watch her weight, how she must be careful because the salad looks fattening ect. Honestly. She's not a well person for all her healthy eating. She was underfed as a child and has many medical problems which i believe are related to that. But she's still doing it to herself :(

It's very odd though when she makes a thing of doing it loudly in front of very obviously much bigger women. ''I mustn't eat that i'll get soooooo FAT!''

Happened to dd once when she ate a pack of sugar free mints and to ds when he went on work experience and the shop opposite was a health food store and he bought a bag of sugar free sweets!

Depends what sweetener they used. the pack should have a warning on if laxative.

Intend to have it as a dessert and I'll have 100g which is less calories than a pudding anyway

35g is the Slimming World "healthy extra" portion that I'm used to.

Food manufacturers do this on purpose for high calorie foods imo. They claim a tiny amount is a portion so the nutritional information on the packet looks better because it's per portion

Spot on!

Ha ha , OP - you may be triggering a competitive under eating thread! Personally I think 10g is a more than adequate portion

50g of chicken is 120 calories, if you are eating it instead of meat then you can go higher than 30g - it is not vastly more calorific than chicken ffs

Everyone's caloric needs are different and the suggested serving is just that.

I do eat about 30 to 50g of halloumi when we cook it though.

55g was a weeks cheese ration during ww2. wow. And I'd happily eat a whole halloumi block.

I wouldn't be able to eat that much in one sitting.

You also got one egg a week in WW2, but oddly half a pound of sugar, which is less of a ration and more of an abundance.

I'd have been trying to find a way of swapping about ten times the amount of sugar I needed for about a dozen eggs that I'd want each week.

keep chickens! Barter! Mum told me that powdered egg was an abomination.

I'd have 2 slices in a pitta bread with a load of salad for lunch. approx 350 calories.

My great gran used everyone's sugar ration for fruit pie filling and jam. Where she lived everyone had apple trees/blackcurrants/gooseberries/rhubarb/raspberries - they were never going to starve.

I used to live near a Greek run fish and chip shop which did a delicious halloumi kebab, there was probably a whole block in each one, it was delicious! Disclaimer - I am fat 😆

The funniest thing was when I got given a box of chocolates for my birthday. The box contained 12 portions , each portion was 2 chocolates.
Yeah, sure hun. That was one big portion as far as I'm concerned.

I don’t eat it but if I was serving it I’d serve one slice with around a third of that salad plus some grains.

I would be furious. ONE slice? I'd wonder why you bothered.
Mumsnet never fails to amaze me when it comes to a competition over how little food a person eats.

one teensy wee slice?