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Your favourite competitive under-eating thread

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StillCoughingandLaughing · 30/11/2019 14:06

We’ve had a couple of doozies lately - the woman who was told her Morrison’s jacket potato should fill her up for the rest of the day and was unreasonable to cook a roast after a ‘treat lunch’; the woman who thought her husband was ordering too much pizza and

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dontalltalkatonce · 30/11/2019 15:16

All MN food threads are batshit! NO ONE is ever a size 14+ or has sturdy kids, they are all serious athletes. My favourites are the 'a bowl of porridge made with water (no salt or sugar, those are MN faux pas) should keep anyone full until lunch' or any containing the words 'greedy' or 'cheating' when it comes to food. It's not heroin, people, it's food.

nokidshere · 30/11/2019 15:17

I love when people say “oh I just had a massive salad”

I just had a massive salad Grin

But my salad consists of mixed leaves, tomatoes, cucumber, celery, hard boiled eggs, crispy mushrooms, bacon, a can of tuna, coleslaw (homemade of course Wink) and, before I stopped carbs recently, would have been accompanied by half a stick of french bread with butter.

dontalltalkatonce · 30/11/2019 15:18

Never a side salad, or just a salad. MASSIVE SALAD.

And 'plenty of veg', no one ever has just one side of say, green beans, it's always green beans and kale/spinach/some other virtue signalling veg, it can't be corn or carrots.

Branleuse · 30/11/2019 15:18

A whole tin of soup just about fits in a mug, so im surprised if most people couldnt manage that with a roll. That would be maybe 250/300 calorie light meal.

As for pizza, I always think I couldnt manage a full pizza when I go out as they look enormous, but somehow, it just disappears into my belly without too much trouble.
It probably depends on the pizza. I wouldnt eat a large dominos by myself, but pizza express or zizzi, no bother at all

MrsFoxPlus4Again · 30/11/2019 15:19

@doritosdip no mention of the magic chicken yet Grin

Ihatesundays · 30/11/2019 15:20

I have a friend who just not interested in food, she understands others are. (She’s also very religious and doesn’t push that on others too).

My MIL thought she ate nothing because she made tiny meals - she would graze the rest of the time. Meant she could spent a whole meal going on about what disgusting gluttons we were blah blah (after eating loads of sandwiches and biscuits).

kateandme · 30/11/2019 15:20

oh god this also means we have more christmas disordered eating threads to come.

DrMadelineMaxwell · 30/11/2019 15:22

I was on a residential trip with school and one of the instructors at breakfast bemoaned that no, they didn't deserve beans with their toast as they hadn't run more than 5k the day before.

fligglepige · 30/11/2019 15:24

O I love the ones about cereal, 'I don't count it as food' ok then Hmm

Christmas ones are fab, when someone goes to visit the rural dwelling in laws and are held in a hostage situation with people who eat one slice of turkey and half a roast potato all day on Christmas Day and beyond.

Borgen · 30/11/2019 15:24

I always remember one thread where a poster said that she only ever allows herself to eat fruit on holiday, as it's such a sugary treat.

I also hate-love the used-only-on-MN phrase "unlimited access to the fruit bowl". I can't help but read it in the voice of a pompous 2* hotel manager.

Oh and also "My DD is a real fruit bat"

(Turns out I only remember fruit-related things Grin!)

cricketmum84 · 30/11/2019 15:25

@Mistlewoeandwhine omg my MIL is exactly the same!

She delights in recounting just how little she has eaten that day (think a strip of chicken, 2 new potatoes and a tablespoon of peas) and loves to show me SILs ironing that she does for her so she can hold up her size 6 clothes to show me how tiny they are.

She has a hospital appt and was telling us that the doctors had said her weight loss was amazing and to keep doing the same things. FIL jumped in at that point and said "tell them the truth!! He said your weight is too low and you must not lose any more!"

We are all quite worried to be honest!

spacepyramid · 30/11/2019 15:27

We buy lots of fruit and vegetables in this house - my youngest is currently munching his way through a cucumber for his afternoon snack and did the same with some broccoli this morning, he'll be begging for more this afternoon as he loves them so much.

Elphame · 30/11/2019 15:28

@nokidshere - sounds like one of my salads ( minus the bacon and tuna but with hummous and probably red kidney beans!)

I'd find that much easier to eat than pizza

TruffleShuffles · 30/11/2019 15:30

In all fairness I am always stuffed after soup it’s absolutely nothing to do with that half a loaf worth of cheese sandwiches I make to accompany it

NoIDontWatchLoveIsland · 30/11/2019 15:34

nokidshere
"and, before I stopped carbs recently"

See this i find a bit mental. Surely its not healthy to stop a whole food group Hmm

Portion control for normal day to day meals = sensible

Thinking its normal to never/rarely eat lunch etc, exclude a whole food group from your diet, never ever have sugar/a treat = bordering on disordered imho.

egontoste · 30/11/2019 15:34

Hands up all those over a certain age (like me) who are convinced that tins of soup used to be bigger than they are now.

And hands up all those other folks who still have vintage dinner plates knocking about and can prove that plates are far bigger now than they used to be Grin

RitaMills · 30/11/2019 15:35

The one with the roast dinner after a cooked breakfast. One poster said she would only eat the tomato and beans off of a cooked breakfast and it would fill her for the entire day.

Another one where she said she walks down the junk food isle in the supermarket and will occasionally buy something out of curiosity.

I love when someone mentioned going to McDonald’s... they always follow it or start it with a big paragraph about why the family ended up at McDonald’s (usually time constraints so quick option). I had plenty of time this morning to make smashed avocado and poached eggs on granary toast but DS and I still went to McDonald’s instead! I feel like I should be kicked off MN.

Roominmyhouse · 30/11/2019 15:37

@RhiWrites a large dominos pizza is about 250 calories a slice, so the whole pizza is more like 2000+ calories.

Mind you I can still demolish and entire one if the mood takes me Smile

BobbyNewport · 30/11/2019 15:37

There was one a couple of years ago that featured the MN chicken. A poster was moaning that her husband whinged when she cut two slices off the chicken for him, then put the chicken aside (to be made into casseroles, curries, risottos and stock for the next decade, obvs).

Apparently he shouldn't be moaning because more than two slices of chicken will fill you to the rafters and there was a whole host of sides to choose from. 3 kinds of potatoes, 6 types of veg etc. Which I find unbelievable if you're that stingy with the chicken but anyways. It's only a 'fuck you' if you decide you'd like more meat.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 30/11/2019 15:40

NoIdon't, why are you judging? And with a stupid humphy face too?

Some people don't eat lunch every day for myriad reasons. Some people don't eat many cars, for various reasons. Some people are managing their food intake via intermittent fasthing. What's it to you?

This is exactly the sort of judgemental crap I'm talking about.

nokidshere · 30/11/2019 15:40

@NoIDontWatchLoveIsland
See this i find a bit mental. Surely its not healthy to stop a whole food group

I'm sure it's not and thankfully there's plenty of carbs in the food I eat generally. But I've been trying eliminating things in order to combat a health issue I have and not eating bread, pastries, cereals and potatoes seems to be helping sadly. Nothing I like more than hot buttered toast Grin but sadly it appears not to like me

PapayaCoconut · 30/11/2019 15:41

My family eat like birds and I cook accordingly when they visit or it all goes to waste. Last time they were here I made an oven ready lasagna intended for two people for my parents and sister, as I wasn't very hungry. (No point making nice food as they don't appreciate it.) They didn't even finish that, and then offered my DH the two spoonfuls that were left when he got home from work. "We saved you some dinner". Embarrassing. Especially as DH's family is the opposite and have been known to offer a steak, a large piece of pasta bake and potatoes in the same dinner...

Clearnightsky · 30/11/2019 15:42

I just don’t get why people talk about food so much!

I love food but I don’t want to talk about it all the time.

DrinkSangriaInThePark · 30/11/2019 15:43

my youngest is currently munching his way through a cucumber for his afternoon snack and did the same with some broccoli this morning, he'll be begging for more this afternoon as he loves them so much

This is EXACTLY the painful type of post that annoys people so much!

The irony Wink

spacepyramid · 30/11/2019 15:46

This is EXACTLY the painful type of post that annoys people so much!

Oh, did I forget to say that he's a rabbit Grin