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If you were having a sandwich/sandwiches…

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Soooootired77 · 21/03/2023 22:20

For lunch, how many would you have/how many pieces of bread?
I came home at lunch from work today, I’d had no breakfast as rushing in the morning, so was hungry and had what I’d call two sandwiches, four slices of wholemeal, cereal type bread with tuna salad on. My mum was over and was saying how a sandwich at lunch was to her just two pieces of bread and a filling.
Mum is v slim, naturally but also doesn’t eat/want to eat much. I admittedly do need to lose a bit of weight, but I was hungry and aside from an apple afterwards, I don’t then eat until dinner.
Is this excessive/not that normal?
How many would you have for your lunch?

OP posts:
Longsight2019 · 21/03/2023 23:06

As a 6ft 14st male I’d have two slices, well filled with a little fruit and standard bag of crisps. This would be sufficient to keep me satisfied until dinner regardless of breakfast.

Sorry, it sounds a bit greedy to me to think you needed/deserved 4 slices (so a double portion) and then eat it in front of your mother. And then feel the need to discuss it on mumsnet because she seemed a bit shocked about the volume you ate.

maddy68 · 21/03/2023 23:07

Soooootired77 · 21/03/2023 22:24

@IamSmarticus Just that? No fruit, yoghurt etc and if you’d not eaten until 1pm?

I never have breakfast , a sandwich would be two pieces of bread. Unlikely to have fruit or yogurt as well

TomatoSandwiches · 21/03/2023 23:07

Lemonandorange · 21/03/2023 22:51

Everyone on this thread is either very good at self discipline or full of shit.

My lunch usually consists of some sort of pasta dish or stir fry, a sandwich or two, crackers or something sweet and in full transparency I'd probably then munch on some chicken bites or cherry tomatoes. I would then eat a normal dinner a few hours later.

I have no poor/negative opinion on what others eat at all I just can't eat a lot in one sitting. I quite often have to eat my dinner in two parts and it's the same portion as my 11yr old, I feel really full quite quickly.
I really miss being able to have a good scoff actually.

ETref · 21/03/2023 23:07

Lemonandorange · 21/03/2023 22:51

Everyone on this thread is either very good at self discipline or full of shit.

My lunch usually consists of some sort of pasta dish or stir fry, a sandwich or two, crackers or something sweet and in full transparency I'd probably then munch on some chicken bites or cherry tomatoes. I would then eat a normal dinner a few hours later.

No, a sandwich plus a snsck is a normal lunch for the vast majority of people.

^ This is an unusually large amount of food to have for lunch. I don't know anyone that eats pasta, a sandwich plus multiple snacks for lunch. You like to have a big lunch, and that's fine, but it doesn't mean that everyone else is full of shit.

MrsDoylesDoily · 21/03/2023 23:08

Natty13 · 21/03/2023 23:05

A sandwich is 2 slices of bread with a filling to me, that's how you buy "a sandwich" from a shop isn't it. Sometimes I'll have half a sandwich as a snack at home i.e. 1 piece of bread.

I know this isn't the point of your post but you won't lose weight skipping meals. Women's bodies need constant fuel in a way men's don't.

I know this isn't the point of your post but you won't lose weight skipping meals. Women's bodies need constant fuel in a way men's don't.

Not necessarily true.

Cutting out one meal a day does mean that some people lose weight, especially if that meal was quite a calorific one.

Easternext · 21/03/2023 23:08

2 slices with filling and a pack of crisps I don't eat breakfast either and don't eat again till home from work so 6ish.

CementTrucker · 21/03/2023 23:10

Are the ready-made shop ones not made with larger slices of bread? They already look pretty big to me. Might be a weird question, but I don’t like chilled sandwiches and make my own from the small sliced loaves. A ‘sandwiches’ lunch portion of that bread is four slices / two full sandwiches for sure, and I have six slices when hungry.

ComtesseDeSpair · 21/03/2023 23:11

ThuMuClu · 21/03/2023 23:05

Two sandwiches at lunchtime then dinner is not “greedy” or “piggy”. There are as many calories in a slice of bread as there are in one apple. Once you factor in people eating crisps etc in the side, it’s no different. a lot of people here are having a single sandwich for lunch then eating crisps and biscuits in the afternoon because that wasn’t enough. If you have 600 calories of sandwiches, and an 809 calorie dinner, you are still only on 1400 calories. Is someone who eats 1400 calories a day a greedy pig?! Honestly. And before anyone tries to come at me, no matter what MyFitnessPal says, adult women should not be aiming for 1200 calories.

Except OP says she is overweight, so is clearly eating too much food on a regular basis. If she was slim and maintaining it, and eating double portions wasn’t affecting her weight at all, she’d be eating the correct amount of food.

ThuMuClu · 21/03/2023 23:11

I don’t understand why no one seems to grasp that one person eating two sandwiches and nothing else, and one person eating one sandwich, crisps, fruit and a yoghurt are likely consuming the same amount of calories

MrsDoylesDoily · 21/03/2023 23:11

Also this thread has made me realise I'm not alone in my crisp addiction Blush

I'm trying to give them up due to rising blood pressure but I just love a crunch with my sandwich.

I've tried to get the 'crunch' from cucumber or carrot sticks but it's not the same as a lovely salty crisp.

TiredandHungry19 · 21/03/2023 23:11

Lemonandorange · 21/03/2023 22:51

Everyone on this thread is either very good at self discipline or full of shit.

My lunch usually consists of some sort of pasta dish or stir fry, a sandwich or two, crackers or something sweet and in full transparency I'd probably then munch on some chicken bites or cherry tomatoes. I would then eat a normal dinner a few hours later.

I should think I’d be dreadfully fat if I ate all that for lunch, seems excessive unless you’re very active

Lifeadjustments · 21/03/2023 23:13

I’d usually have 4 slices but that’s because I don’t really eat breakfast on work days. On days I’m off I don’t have l7nch so only breakfast and dinner.

PMAmostofthetime · 21/03/2023 23:15

I'd have 4 slices if if was hungry ( 4 sandwiches cute diagonally)

And a yoghurt and some crisps.

ThuMuClu · 21/03/2023 23:16

that doesn’t make any sense. Your calorie intake is calculated on your weight. As a 10st woman, my basic calorie intake to stay ok is about 1600 calories. My partner’s, 14st man, and a builder is over 2500. If I was eating double portions and it wasn’t affecting my weight, it’s due to a quirk of my metabolism not because it is the “right” amount of food. It’s just that we equate slimness with health and fatness with poor health, irrespective of actual diet.

BreviloquentBastard · 21/03/2023 23:17

I'm going to ruin everyone's day by saying I have a single slice of bread and fold it in half around the filling, which apparently makes me a godless heathen.

Enko · 21/03/2023 23:17

MasterBeth · 21/03/2023 22:26

You said it yourself: you were hungry.

Eat when you are hungry. Perfectly reasonable.

Agreed

BadNomad · 21/03/2023 23:20

If I'm having just a sandwich, then that's 2 slices of bread with filling. If I'm having soup or something else with it, I'd have half a sandwich (1 slice of bread).

TomatoSandwiches · 21/03/2023 23:20

Nothing wrong with having 2 sandwiches (four slices of bread) but doesn't it get a bit samey in your mouth? If I could eat that much in one go I would get bored of the taste/texture and need something like crisps or switch to something sweet?

mumda · 21/03/2023 23:21

Albiboba · 21/03/2023 22:26

A normal sandwich is two slices of bread. Surely you’ve seen the 1000’s of sandwiches on the market in pret/Tesco/boots etc to be aware of that.

Yeah but no but yeah. That's why I always used to have the three sandwich pack from boots.

SunshineAndMonsteras · 21/03/2023 23:22

Greedy and piggy say more about people who write that than about someone eating 2 sandwiches

Natty13 · 21/03/2023 23:23

Longsight2019 · 21/03/2023 23:06

As a 6ft 14st male I’d have two slices, well filled with a little fruit and standard bag of crisps. This would be sufficient to keep me satisfied until dinner regardless of breakfast.

Sorry, it sounds a bit greedy to me to think you needed/deserved 4 slices (so a double portion) and then eat it in front of your mother. And then feel the need to discuss it on mumsnet because she seemed a bit shocked about the volume you ate.

I'm 5ft2 and 53kg, and that wouldn't be ebough for me until dinner. Bodies are different.

Don't take nutritional advice from social media.

JudgeRudy · 21/03/2023 23:23

@Longsight2019 Sorry, it sounds a bit greedy to me to think you needed/deserved 4 slices (so a double portion) and then eat it in front of your mother. And then feel the need to discuss it on mumsnet because she seemed a bit shocked about the volume you ate.

She needed double sandwiches because she had missed breakfast. And was extra hungry. She chose this instead of something nearly everyone on this thread has mentioned...including yourself....1 x round of sandwiches and a packet of crisps. She didn't consider whether she 'desrved' it. What an odd choice of words...deserved....Also, what on earth is the relavence of eating it in front of her mother got to do with it? She's not shooting up heroin! I'd say it's you that has a wierd relationship with food if you feel eating 2 sandwiches is a deviant activity that should be done in secret...if at all.

grumpycow1 · 21/03/2023 23:24

Two slices of bread, filling and some fruit/crisps. Never would think of having 4 slices for lunch! Sometimes I do have 2 breakfasts though - ie cereal and toast.

Albiboba · 21/03/2023 23:24

ThuMuClu · 21/03/2023 23:11

I don’t understand why no one seems to grasp that one person eating two sandwiches and nothing else, and one person eating one sandwich, crisps, fruit and a yoghurt are likely consuming the same amount of calories

The OP is also having an apple.
So it’s second sandwich vs a packet of crisps and a yoghurt. Generally about 250 for both in a multipack size.
You’re close to 100cals each for the granary bread, then filling which could easily be double that again if it’s tuna and Mayo.
There is every chance the second sandwich is adding about 150 calories.

SocksAndTheCity · 21/03/2023 23:26

Telling somebody they should consider whether they 'deserve' food before eating is very weird indeed.