to think that cheese on toast is not a snack?!

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To me snacks are crisps, biscuits, nuts, that kind of thing.

Cheese on toast is a light meal like lunch or tea if you had a big lunch.

Just watching the Ranganathon, which I think is improved by being online weirdly, and they mention that CoT is the nations favourite lockdown snack!

I have cheese on toast as a snack quite a lot. I have it halfway between lunch and dinner and it takes about 5 minutes to prepare and eat. A piece of cheese on toast being 'lunch' sounds like deprivation to me.

I think you can eat whatever you like for a snack tbh depending how hungry you are and what you fancy. I doubt one slice ( especially as we buy the smaller loaves of bread) is much more calorific than many snacks on the accepted list.

I just want cheese on toast now...

It can be a meal if you have enough of it but is hardly meat and two veg with gravy :-).

I imagine most would consider cheese on toast to be a snack. I love it! Also love Welsh rarebit and could live on it.

Who cares what people eat?

Cheese on toast whether one or two slices is a light meal to me. Bacon sandwich (depending on how big) is the same.

Snack is an apple or a packet of crisps etc. Quick and no effort.

1 piece=snack
2 pieces, with salad and coleslaw (or tomato soup.. 🤤)=meal.

But then I'm fat, sooo 🤷‍♀️

@Howmanysleepsnow

I just googled and 1 slice is 313 calories... that’s more than the salmon, new potatoes and veg I had for dinner last night. Anything with more calories than an evening meal (my biggest meal of the day)surely can’t count as a snack.

Well your biggest meal at 313 calories means a daily intake of under 1,000 unless you are snacking a lot. Either you’re on a diet, are a child or are dieting. That’s below the recommended daily intake for adult women.

It depends on how many slices you have.

I was flat baffled by how my friend had both 'tea' and 'dinner' after school. She'd eat what I had for dinner as her tea, then her mum would make something substantial later too.

(I'm as Northern as they come but I loathe the word 'tea' - I find it horribly twee)

midnightstar66 exactly. 1 piece of cheese on toast is about 250cals max. If you're not dieting and all your other meals are sensible it makes for a decent snack if you're hungry.

I just googled and 1 slice is 313 calories... that’s more than the salmon, new potatoes and veg I had for dinner last night. Anything with more calories than an evening meal (my biggest meal of the day)surely can’t count as a snack.

As a slim and active family, we'd be malnourished or at least extremely hungry if our main meal was 300 calories. However I imagine that's based on a pretty indulgent slice of c&t rather than a piece from a small sliced loaf and a thin layer of cheddar

It's something we'll have for a very light lunch or supper once in a while, definitely wouldn't have it as well as a meal due to the calories.

For me crackers and cheese can be either. A couple of crackers and cheese, snack. More than that, lunch.

So what’s the difference? 1 piece of bread and some cheese is a snack, more than that is lunch. “Snack” isn’t about what you eat, it’s about the amount.

Easy solution: if you don’t want cheese on toast as a snack, then don’t.

Mmmm, I love cheese on toast, but I’d have it as an occasional lunch/brunch on a chilled day. It’s quite heavy and would give me a slump rather than a pick me up. I like a snack to give me a boost of energy to get me to my next meal.

To me, cheese on toast would fall into the "light meal" category. Definitely not a snack.

I hate the concept of snacks. Snacks are small versions of actual meals. Either just have the actual meal or wait. Eating between eating (i.e. snacking between meals) is weird. Cheese on toast can just be a small meal. It's certainly substantial enough to make me not want a big meal a couple of hours later!

I'd say it's a light meal rather than a snack, to me a snack is a handful of nuts, crisps, piece of fruit

How many slices of bread are we talking about ?

Anyone else having cheese on toast for breakfast now? Breakfast a meal so ok have 3 slices right?

@Howmanysleepsnow

I just googled and 1 slice is 313 calories... that’s more than the salmon, new potatoes and veg I had for dinner last night. Anything with more calories than an evening meal (my biggest meal of the day)surely can’t count as a snack.

It didn’t take long for the MN competitive eating to start.

Hmm, one slice is a snack, my kids would definitely demolish as a snack and 2 slices with a bit of salad is definitely a lunch.

Yep. I'm having tomatoes on mine for health.
My body is a temple

One slice is a snack.

Two slices is a meal.

I would normally have 4 slices for a meal.

I just googled and 1 slice is 313 calories.

A slice of wholemeal bread is ~70 calories and 30g cheddar is ~ 120 calories so a slice of cheese on toast is less than 200 calories. A light pre lunch snack according to my skin and bones sporty teenager, a substantial snack to fill me up midway between lunch (12pm) and dinner (7pm) for middle aged and currently too sedentary mother.