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

[PyongyangKipperbang]

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've only ever eaten cheese on toast as a lunch or possibly for tea if I've eaten my main meal at lunchtime.

1. I suspect the sense meant is 'snacky lunch, tea or supper, rather than bothering to cook a proper meal'.

2. You're taking something said by a largeish, youngish man, who, as a professional comedian, might not live a perfectly orderly, three-planned-meals-a-day life and who is probably summarising in his own words some not-entirely-scientific findings and applying an orderly, frugal female lens.

Predictably, as the thread's gone on, the 'eats like a bird' contingent have alighted to express their horror and disgust at anyone eating more than a slice of toast and some salad leaves. What a rabbit hole.

@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.

Bullshit that you are having a

It depends how you eat and how active you are. Child nutritionists recommend that toddler snacks aren't just crisps/biscuits etc because they need to get nutrition in so snacks should ideally be a balanced mini meal. It's totally reframed how I think of snacks now that I have a toddler.

Before I would have eaten cheese on toast as a meal. Now I might make a small portion of cheese on toast with added veggies as a snack.

Cheese on toast is a lunch because it's always two slices. The idea of just making one slice is plain weird.

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

Oh I really dislike cooked tomatoes- but a bit of red onion - now that's not a bad idea! Just have to overcome the fact I'm too lazy to make it now.

Surely it’s a light bite, somewhere between the two?

Just realised my post contains 3 of the most hated mumsnet words, snack, meal and veggies

I'd have cheese on toast when I was too hungry for a packet of crisps but not hungry enough for a proper meal. Although I would also have it for breakfast and consider that a proper meal, so I guess I'm just illogical.

howaboutchocolate Why not chuck in a huge salad and have a picky tea?

I think it's a light meal. If I'd had a big lunch and didn't want a heavy dinner I'd have one slice and maybe a piece of fruit.

I really, really want a grilled cheese now

Cheese on toast is a lunch because it's always two slices. The idea of just making one slice is plain weird.

If dc get wind of me making it though, there's always uptake. I'd never be making just one slice

Surely it’s a light bite, somewhere between the two?

When you see light bite on a menu its usually a smaller version of a main meal such as mac and cheese and garlic bread - larger than a child's potion but smaller than an adults or a smaller pizza, toastie with salad but not chips. So I'd say no to light bite for a slice of c&t 🤔

Depends on what life stage I'm at.

Normal life = Breakfast/Lunch

Pregnancy = Snack

Lockdown = Pre snack (to be eaten while I'm waiting for my snack to cook)

Lockdown = Pre snack (to be eaten while I'm waiting for my snack to cook)

that’s more than the salmon, new potatoes and veg I had for dinner last night.

😂 As if.

I wouldn't have it as a snack between lunch and dinner but it is an evening snack, after say, a workout or a night out.

Why are people so horrified at a 200-250 calorie snack? Better something a bit more nutritious than crackers or crisps. Some people eat three large meals, some three smaller meals plus snacks. Depends on your hunger. Neither is wrong or ‘unhealthy’!

Cheese on toast involves a bit of thought and preparation so to me it would be a lunch, just as a cheese sandwich would be. But if my child was making himself cheese on toast for breakfast at 11.30am and offered me a slice it would be a bonus snack and I would still want lunch too. And now I really really want cheese on toast with grilled tomato and brown sauce. Yum.

Why are people so horrified at a 200-250 calorie snack?

There are a lot of women on here with disordered eating. MN food threads are quite sad.

I love cheese on toast. I'd have 2 slices as a meal if I wasn't very hungry or couldn't be bothered to cook.

If I've had dinner and 3 hours later I make some cheese on toast, it's a snack. If I call it supper does it become officially a fourth meal, rather than a snack, because to me supper is a snack (unless you are posh and call your main evening meal supper instead of dinner).

Yes, the horror at cheese on toast from people who regard crisps or a chocolate bar as a worthy snack is plain odd.

Yes, you can't carry it in your handbag or keep it in your desk drawer but unlike those processed packs of empty calories, it does have some good nutritional value.

In my house we have 4 meals breakfast, lunch, tea and then we have dinner, and snack in between on crisps, fruit, chocolates or nuts,

Sometimes me and DH will have cheese on toast as a snack in between meals

Now reading this thread I feel guilty for eating so much it's no wounder gained so much weight

@AnnaBanana333

Why are people so horrified at a 200-250 calorie snack?

There are a lot of women on here with disordered eating. MN food threads are quite sad.

I know. Whenever I happen to wander onto a thread about eating/weight/dieting because it has come up in Active, I get the impression that almost every other woman on here is restricting what she eats in order to try and lose weight or to remain slim. I can't be the only one who eats whatever I want, whenever I want - some days a lot, some days not so much, depending how I feel.

every other woman on here is restricting what she eats in order to try and lose weight

I do (must! Obese) am on 1400 cal and even I am not horrified at that! It can be easily implementation into a healthy diet🤷🏻
I am however pretty sure that MN is very dangerous place for people who have eating disorders because there is obvious number of people with eating disorders in denial presenting it as a norm...