To think we don’t need that much food

[Moonpiecake]

I feel portions in restaurants and takeaways are bigger than most of adults need and also majority of people buy and eat more food than is necessary for our bodies.

If you are over 30, fit, healthy and manage to remain within the healthy body weight for your age and height how much do to eat.

I want to save money on food but also loose a few kilos and look and feel good so looking for advice

Everyone is different.

I do intermittent fasting and try not to snack so I eat a relatively low volume of food now. But then I worry I don't get enough fibre and probably only just manage 4-5 portions of fruit and veg.

I'm pretty sure you didn't read the full thread or you would have read, the many people questioning it. You would also have seen that she clarified HER mistake. You just look like a dick now 😂

Still stand by what I said, you can't live well on £10 a week or £7.

I'm wondering what the agenda is that would be benefitted by advising people to eat more vegetables. Are there some deeply malevolent brassica farmers out there threatening research institutes?

I for one am sick of being controlled by Brussels (sprouts). Take back control, say I.

I haven’t RTFT but I’m like the above poster. I always finish a restaurant meal. I make sure I go there hungry and I devour my meal which is often 2 courses (starter and main - I don’t do dessert). There’s often sides of veg, and bread, and usually wine. I pig out, basically.

BUT I exercise 6 days a week and eat ‘clean’ 90% of the time, so one unclean meal out of 21 meals a week is not something I’m going to spend time feeling guilty about.

Price me a month of food for 80 quid a month for 2 in any one of the shops which is "healthy and filling". Let's pretend I have absolute basics at home like spices, flour and condiments.

The poster came back and said it's week.

We spend on average £80pm on food for two people

Yikes, I spend about £280 a month on food just for me. I also cook everything from scratch.

@BeachBeerBbq some of us did this costing a few months ago. If you follow a workhouse style diet it is almost possible. Prices are a little bit out of date.
Bread is pretty much the cheapest calorie source in the UK.
A tenner a week is doable but boring and not that healthy.

£20 a week should be doable and healthy, maybe?

I find restaurants serve tinchy portions and you end up going to McDonald's afterwards, so I just cook myself, that way I get the amount of food I want and I can fill the fill the plate right up. I normally have 3 meals a day and snacks too. Here's a pic of my dinner tonight.

Just get one big chicken and you can feed a family of 5 for a fortnight according to this place.

Need to start weigh lifting

Derailing, but where did you get that lunchbox from?

I'll be slaughtered for this and told it's an eating disorder but as you asked...

I'm size 12. Currently not walking much due to weather and long hours WFH (10km a week) so I've cut back to one meal a day which is dinner. I eat as much as I fancy and its normally something like stir fry, curry, meat and veg style, "massive salad", unlimited soup and 1 thickly sliced bread. Saturday I'll make a 3 course meal. Sunday is a big roast.

I'll regularly have a treat food during the day or after dinner like a flapjack or brownie. But I only eat homemade, so even the flapjack is quality oats and seeds, the brownie is 80% chocolate. I appreciate brown sugar is still sugar.

When summer comes, I'll be out doing 30km a week walking and active weekend days and back to big brunch and dinner at the weekend and the standard B/L/D so I'm not bothered. I just see it as adjusting my intake to reflect my activity levels.

It’s actually advice my DP got from his GP when he wanted to diet and try to lose weight to reverse his type 2 diabetes. It’s also advice my friend who is wheelchair bound and very overweight received from her consultant - she can’t exercise and can only eat a reduced amount of calories before she gains weight, as her metabolism has changed since she started to rely on the chair. It depends on the circumstances and in some cases it’s valid. Medics will also add the caveat that this kind of diet is extreme and shouldn't be followed for more than a few weeks at a time.

I agree OP but a lot of people are greedy fuckers and would complain if they received a normal sized portion in a restaurant. Past two days I’ve been out for dinner (unusual, two birthdays to celebrate). First one I got a lasagne with came with chips and a salad. It was HUGE and I hate wasting food so really tried to eat all of it but I was beaten half way in. Just far too much. Make mysen feel sick with the effort too.

Last night - same thing, gigantic portion which I ended up having to leave half of. There’s just no need.

I eat out a lot and have found portions have become a bit smaller recently.

The cheaper the restaurant the bigger the potion.

If you’re doing a heavy manual job, or running miles every day you need more calories and dividing those into 3 meals a day is probably sensible.
More sedentary job you could have 2 meals or spread that food into 3 if you like socialising at meal times or family meal time is important to you.
I eat lots of fruit and veg as I don’t eat meat or fish and try to limit carbs like bread. But if I was still working 12 hour days like I used to I’d step up the carbs to keep me going.
It’s just a case of knowing a bit about nutritional needs, food values and adjusting to suit yourself.
Can’t comment on size of takeaway meals as I’ve never eaten one. Did order in a pizza once but size options were given so I knew exactly what’d be delivered.

We actually need at least 7 portions of fruit and veg a day. Authorities set it a bit lower because they thought most people couldn't manage.

The amount of food you need to eat varies, depending on your size, muscle mass, and also how good your digestion is.

I'm skinny (and was underweight for a very long time) and need to eat much larger portions than most people my size, because a lot isn't absorbed. I only started to gain weight about three years after quitting gluten. I'm undiagnosed, but coeliac's destroys your villi where many nutrients are absorbed, hence it tends to make you underweight.

I try to stick to;
3 meals a day, 1 snack at most
Cook from scratch every day
Avoid UPFs and sugar
Keep fruit and veg content high
Breakfast and 4/7 lunches are veg based, 3/7 have some fish/meat
5/7 dinner are some meat/fish with veg, the other 2/7 are veg/vegan
I drink black codlffee.once a day, green tea and water

That's why I asked the poster for costing on "healthy and filling". While what you posted is filling I would not call it healthy really if all week is similar.

Some of us do! I eat between 2300-2500 kcal so the bigger the portion, the happier I am :)

Im 40 and have been intermittant fasting for18 months and have lost 2 stone. I eat 2 meals a day, lunch and a light dinner. I focus on whole foods and I eat to satiety and am rarely hungry these days.

Yep sure let me write it all down so you can spot check me, oh internet god 😂

I said most. Not all. Most.

Generally known and breakfast, lunch and dinner.

You don’t have to eat them but it’s not uncommon too. Hence use of the word “most”.

YOU can feel what you want. You're not forced to buy in restaurats and takeaways. Don't come on here with your passive undereating comments.