To think this is a perfectly fine evening meal?

[IroningThrone]

Had porridge at about 7am this morning and have been busy all day. Have just made myself tea (see pic) and my aunt (who is staying with me for a few days) has made me feel really bad about it - apparently it's too much food and a "greedy meal"

Aibu to think it's fine as an evening meal?

It's four new potatoes, boiled and crisped in the pan with a little olive oil (not how I'd usually have them with a salad type tea, but they were still a bit hard!), two slices of cheese, a tablespoon of fat free cottage cheese/coleslaw, two slices of ham, and a bit of salad cream (plus the salad leaves)

Looks delicious OP and very similar to my lunch yesterday. I also had a dinner of salmon, rice and veg, plus 3 GF cupcakes at afternoon tea time, and some crisps and 4 squares of dark chocolate for supper. And I'd had 2 milky coffees and an avocado spread over 5 corn crackers for breakfast. I understand that everyone has different ways of eating, but honestly my mind boggles that your aunt would think that plate was too much when it was your only main meal of the day.

Please don't feel bad about what you've eaten. Your body is asking for good quality fuel, and that's what you're giving it. Absolutely crack on.

@IroningThrone

I made a chocolate mug cake and added a lot of custard!

Ooh - that sounds delicious!! 🌹

That's a massive plate of food! Two meals worth for me

The food is fine but big portion

Not sure it is really - hard to gauge the size of the plate as there’s nothing to show scale.

I'd probably just have had the one protein rather than three. Especially as there's coleslaw as well. Some cucumbers, peppers and tomato would be great with that. But your food, your choice. Your aunt probably has a smaller appetite. Not nice of her to comment.

@Rosscameasdoody True, bur assuming a normal-sized dinner plate, it is a lot (for me!)
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I was looking at the picture, and it made me really hungry. It's very rude of your aunt to say that.

Looks delicious!

That is a starter, what is the main course?

Well. Completely unreasonable!!!!

The stuff is like gold dust, why its so hard to find I do not know.

Curious why you think it's not fine?

Stomachs are not stretchy, this is a myth!!!

I’ve read quite a lot of this thread and find it so confusing. Apparently I have a massive appetite and each MUCH more than most people. But I’m a size 6/8 and always have been!

I guess I don’t snack, and I have a very active life running around after my kids. But even when I had a sedentary office job I ate the same portions and remained the same size (skinnier than I am now, if anything).

I also eat a healthy, home cooked and 90 percent vegetarian diet - no alcohol - but again this wasn’t the case 10
years ago.

I’ll be honest- it’s a small dinner for me 😆
It would be a fairly light lunch
(I’m not overweight by the way, bmi 24 and healthy. I enjoy my food, no issues)

Feeding my family of 6 on that! ( you know someone had to say it). I do my potatoes like that regularly. Yum. Not a fan of cottage cheese and would like proper off the bone ham. But I am being hugely picky. We all like what we like. I hope you enjoyed your not greedt dinner OP

On the (increasingly rare) occasions that anyone says things like that to me, Just pat my stomach and say "This wobbly-wobbly won't feed itself, you know." and get stuck in.

I don't police there people's food. I don't expect them to police mine.

You aunt is cheeky!

Love the sound of the potatoes - I may try doing some like this later this week

Fried boiled potatoes. - especially those little baby potatoes - are beyond delicious, aren't they @HideTheCroissants ?

Here at Chateau Viper I often deliberately cook extra so that I can slice and fry them a day or so later. Nomnomnomnomnomnomnomnom!

It's not confusing. You are eating what you need.
People have very different bodies.

Even if you'd only had a bowl of porridge at 7am?
You maybe have unusually low calorific needs.

I wouldn’t have the cottage cheese if I was having hard cheese too but that’s my personal preference and not because I think it’s too much food. It looks delicious, hope it was enjoyed

That's not much at all- if you've only had that and porridge your calories will be low for the day I'd think.

Yes! I am a bit weird; don't like being, what my grandmother called, 'over-faced' with food. Too much on a plate puts me right off!

How can it be THAT different
though?

We’re just mammals after all. I don’t think there’s such a huge variation in intakes in other species?

If it IS that different, then any guidance on ideal nutritional intake is basically bogus?

Dunno. I'm just going on what that poster said. She is obviously eating what she needs as she has maintained a healthy weight all her adult life.
There are always outliers.

I thought the stomach had huge capacity to stretch.
It's empty size is about the size of a fist and if you carry on eating and eating it will stretch, won't it?

I admit that I don't know what ED would result in a very small stomach w/o the capacity to stretch.