If you were having a sandwich/sandwiches…

[Soooootired77]

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?

Two slices of bread, plenty of filling then fruit, crisps if we had any, maybe a couple of biscuits or a slice of cake depending if we had any.

Dp takes a sandwich (two slices of bread) plus 2-3 pieces of fruit for his lunch. There's biscuits at his office - he's certainly not underweight!

Depends on what I had earlier in the day.

If I hadn’t had much or nothing, two sandwiches. If I had something, I would have one sandwich and some fruit. I tend to eat more during the daytime and light for dinner anyway.

1 sandwich. I try to eat before I get really hungry though. I'm failing at the moment but I normally try to have something in the fridge to microwave so I dont have to think about it.

If you are wanting to loose weight, try one a slice sandwich plus a portion of salad with low calorie dressing, the munching on salad fools you into feeling fuller. Alternatively carrot and cucumber sticks with hummus is another munches thing

I'd make one initially with two slices. If I was still hungry, I'd have another.

Two slices of bread with enough filling to serve my hunger..
The filling differs if I am more hungry or I might add a cup of soup too. Then a piece of fruit and a cup of tea.

I quite often have two sandwiches for lunch (or more likely two wraps as I prefer them to sandwiches). I don’t eat breakfast and my job is physical.

I don't get what you're asking - you refer to what you had as two sandwiches(4 slices of bread with filling) therefore you know what a "normal" sandwich is - 2 slices of bread with filling! Where's the angst?

It's hardly the unhealthilest lunch in the world, who cares what your mum says? If you were hungry you needed something filling - an extra sandwich is better than a packet of crisps or a chocolate bar at 3pm when you got hungry again.

2 slices of bread plus filling, maybe piece of fruit or yoghurt

I eat if I am hungry until I am full. Would only eat differently if I was calorie counting. I on occasion will have 2 sandwiches or two rolls and don't feel bad about it. If you are concerned about bread then maybe have a thick soup instead or salad or sushi etc

It would depend on what else I was having. I would have four slices of bread with just an apple, but I might have two if there were also some crisps, a side salad or some other element to the lunch.

I think of the term "a sandwich" as meaning an individual unit that you can pick up, so half of a 2-slice portion, but that's irrelevant to how much you "should" have. The whole meal sounds pretty healthy to me and I don't think anyone, however closely related, should be commenting on how much you ate. It's none of anyone's business!

2 slices plus filling if it’s normal sized bread.

I don't eat chocolates...

I’d probably only have one sandwich as I don’t really like them enough to have two (regardless of filling).

However I’d probably have something else as well - maybe crisps, fruit, or something else “sidey” (made up word)

To me who unfortunately has to watch what she eats, that's a lot of calories. One sandwich with butter/mayo plus a filling would be around 400 calories. Throw in a small bag of chips and that's 500. Two sandwiches would mean I'd have very little calories left for dinner where I do like a proper meal. I try abs broadly stick to 1500 calories most days to maintain .

But maybe you can eat way more than that or naturally have a very light dinner.

For a healthy weight it really is calories in v calories out so we're all different in that respect .

Two pieces of bread.

This is a storm in a teacup. You said yourself, you had two sandwiches. it's just that your Mum had one sandwich. She's being a bit off to try and tell you it's unacceptable to have two sandwiches. It all depends on how hungry you are, how active you are, what you've already eaten, what else you are eating at that meal and when you next expect to eat. Whether you have one or two sandwiches at lunch is none of her business. It's amazing how many people are rigid thinkers and try to make everyone else like them.

I don't eat breakfast.

I am overweight. Trying to lose weight so in my packed lunch today is:

One cheese sandwich (2 slices of bread), chopped up cucumber and carrots, handful of grapes, small portion of melon and an apple.

Probably not actually fewer calories than two sandwiches but I find the fruit and veg keeps me full for longer - I think it's the fibre.

I don't think two sandwiches if that's all you're eating is excessive - if you're also having crisps and then a yoghurt or fruit, maybe.

But then I am not the anti carb police..

A normal reduced carb diet with 4 slices of bread at 9 carbs per slice (smaller loaf of bread) or 17 per slice for a normal wholemeal with no added bits, and a healthy filling with no junk like chocolate or crisps and no breakfast is a reasonable intake. Not everyone eats breakfast anyway.

That is based on the bread with no added seeds, extra sugar, oats etc. Just plain wholemeal like a small Warburtons or a normal sized Lidl loaf. And no, I didn't go and look specially to add this info. I buy those because they have less carbs per slice.

If you have no weight or health or weight concerns you can eat what you want and if you are still hungry after one sandwich then have another one.

Get this:
<clears throat>

DH has EIGHT pieces of bread (4 sandwiches) for dinner 😃

2 slices of that 'big' ham with a breaded crust per sandwich, plus mustard.

He's not fat. He's tall and muscly. He's a builder. He eats about 3 billion calories per day and burns all of them off.

No food is 'good' or 'bad'. Eat what you want OP - just tailor it roughly to what you're burning off.

Depends how hungry I feel. Usually these days two slices but sometimes three or four (three doesn't work so well if the bread isn't an even shape).

It also depends how thick the bread is sliced, sometime I get two slices of bread that are so thick they're probably equivalent to four normal slices. I had some from Morrison's the other week that barely fitted in the toaster it was that thick.

Two slices of bread for me

Depends what my body/appetite tells me I’m hungry for. Sometimes that might be 2, sometimes 4.

Two slices of bread with filling and usually something else on the side - salad, fruit, crisps. I couldn't personally eat two sandwiches in one go - and I am not slim!

But if I hadn't eaten since breakfast, I'd have a sandwich, which would fill me up, but I'd likely be hungry again before dinner, so I'd have something else mid-late afternoon. Another sandwich, maybe, more likely something like toast, cheese/crackers, noodles, etc.

I wouldn't eat two sandwiches if I hadn't had breakfast, I'd increase the filling in one amd have fruit or crisps as well