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 had cheese on toast for my dinner last night, it's definitely a meal!

Depends how you make it, innit.

1 slice of bread with bit of cheese and splash of worcestershire sauce? Not a meal.

2 slices of it with cheese and salad? Meal

to me (vastly overweight due to illness / steroids / low mobility) cheese on toast / bacon sarnie is a lunch but not a dinner.

This is just reminding me of the horrors of women's magazines suggesting that if you're hungry between meals, eat an apple or a handful of almonds...what the hell is that going to do? Give me cheese on toast!

Toast by itself = snack
Anything on toast = meal

*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 always wonder if people commenting do actually eat 300 calorie main meals daily and are slim as a bean (and probably lacking in energy) or if they are overweight and in denial about how much they eat - or if they are just saying this to try and sound superior on a board of strangers and they actually eat normally. Or they have no idea that their salmon, potatoes and veg is actually more like 700 calories due to portion size, because a diet recipe that intended a morsel of each claimed to be a 300 meal and again they are wondering why the diet unsuccessful. Maine a mix of all of it!

I always think it's better to snack on proper food like toast/ cheese on toast/ mashed avocado on toast. Can you tell I like toast? Rather than endless biscuits/ crisps as they're unsatisfying. Toast fills you up.

I think it's the denial @midnightstar66
I had the same.
300 cal meal of salmon potatoes and veg would be something like 100g of salmon, 100g of young potatoes and then... Like 20 cal left for veg. That accounts for no oil whatsoever (tbf it's not needed with good pan).
That's not main meal🤷🏻

just googled and 1 slice is 313 calories

That depends on the type of bread and cheese you use.

Big snack not really a meal, but it took so long to make with the rubbish grill that came with the last house, that cooking a proper meal was actually quicker.

I would totally have grilled cheese as a meal, so YANBU. However, it could be made as a snack - it just depends on the volume of food used. I think, as a rough guideline for most ages/genders, "snack" is circa 200 or fewer calories and "meal" is circa 200 to 600 calories. The actual food used to construct the snack or meal isn't important. (Unless it's a fish supper aka fish-and-chips, as everyone pretends that discarding some of the batter from the fish means that the 3,000 calories didn't exist.)

We always had supper when I was a kid - we ate around 5 so quite early. Dad would go into the kitchen and make toasted cheese or french toast or something for supper at about 9 o'clock. If mum did if you got a slice of toast so my Dad was only allowed to do it a couple of times a week . Just thinking about it has made me realise how much I actually miss those evenings with us all sitting round the gas fire, eating toasted cheese!

@womaninatightspot

I always think it's better to snack on proper food like toast/ cheese on toast/ mashed avocado on toast. Can you tell I like toast? Rather than endless biscuits/ crisps as they're unsatisfying. Toast fills you up.

You win for most usage of the word toast in a single post

It's a light meal, supper after a big lunch sort of thing but snack no

How much cheese do you people put on a slice of bread that you consider it meal😂

eat an apple

Not just magazines, my mum and grans said it me, and now I say it to DS1

I agree OP I’d have that as a lunch. I have a friend who feeds her children meal type food as snacks through the day, like pizzas and sandwiches then a large portion at actual mealtimes, and I just can’t get my head around it.

I made cheese on toast as a snack the other day - 90 calorie wholemeal bread with added calcium, 30g of the cheese was approx 120 cals. So for the calorific cost of 2.5 chocolate digestives I got a balanced meal with calcium and fibre. As it kept me fuller for longer my dinner, as a result, was lighter.

Snacks should be mini meals. This idea of gorging yourself with crisps and chocolate regularly everyday ‘because it’s a proper snack’ is a bit foolish if you want to live a long and healthy life.

Cheese on toast with salad sounds horrible. Doesn’t the salad wilt? A handful of cherry tomatoes would work though.

Cheese on toast, with L&P, bowl of Heinz tomato soup - perfect lockdown lunch here. It would be two slices of toast, sometimes made into a sandwich with a bit of smoked ham in between.

I would provably have a piece of toast with peanut butter as a snack, but tbh am doing a lot less snacking now I am not in work.

Yes for me it is a lunch food

@ShaunaTheSheep

Cheese on toast with salad sounds horrible. Doesn’t the salad wilt? A handful of cherry tomatoes would work though.

It’s usually on the side

If it's just one slice then it could be a snack. More than that is definitely a meal though

I suppose I think of a snack as something that requires no (or minimal) assembly. Cheese on toast has various stages and items of assembly or used for assembly. So I would vote "not snack".

We sometimes have it for a meal with a tomato and spring onion side salad or tomato soup. It's perfectly filling especially with some fruit for pud.

I do concur with people who say that nuts, chocolate etc can have more calories (depending on amount eaten) but no prep, see, so "snack".

It's easy to go too far the other way though. My parents think a meal isn't a proper meal unless it's hot. So cold meat with a potato salad is "not a proper dinner" as if the calories and nutrients have drained away along with the temperature. Bonkers!

I also had a boyfriend at uni who could spend all day scoffing sandwiches, crisps, toast, cereal, chocolate, biscuits and pasties but if he hadn't had a meat and two veg hot dinner would insist "I haven't eaten today".

300 calories for dinner!! Unless lunch is your main meal and you have a smaller dinner, that is ridiculously small.

Cheese on toast for me would be a lunch or light dinner, but I would probably have two slices, some ham on it, Worcestershire sauce, nice thick bread etc.

For a snack I would have one slice with some cheese slapped on top.