… to think this is ridiculous. (portion size)

[Elphame]

I fancied a Chelsea bun from the bakery this morning so asked for one to be added to my bread order. Didn’t really think much about it.

When I got it home I was staggered by the size of it.

Is this really what passes for the one serving of cake for one person? I’ll eat about a quarter. It will be stale tomorrow so the birds will get the rest.

Teaspoon for scale

But everything is getting smaller, shrinkflation, the size of a regular mars bar today compared to the 70’s and 80’s are tiny and that’s just one example, there have been threads about how products are shrinking and we are still being charged the same, so no I don’t believe food products that we buy from supermarkets are increasing in size, completely the opposite.

Only bored and/or moody MNers could pile on an Op about Chelsea buns 😂

This is true. But people did walk more. Never mind that, though: Mumsnet's disorderly eaters have a few lively threads going on how exercise has no impact on weight. This is excellent for them, as it means they can back up their dietary obsessions with The Latest Science proving that overweight people are, indeed, greedy gluttons eating All The Wrong Things.

Personally, I tend to suspect that someone with a physically demanding job could eat quite a bit more (including Chelsea buns) than a paraplegic in a wheelchair before getting fat. But the teeny-tinies can always find some Science!

Also, I now want a Chelsea bun but the bakery's closed 😭

Is this competitive under eating, OP? A bun the width and height of a teaspoon is not massive!

This. If it's so huge cut it in half.

Nowhere near enough icing on that for me.

Could you manage that after a massive salad OP?

Are you French sized OP? IYKYN

I could easily eat that, no problem at all. I could eat one right now after seeing the picture.

I like big buns, I cannot lie.

Why not give some to a neighbour/friend if you dont want it all.

I can just imagine my neighbours perplexed face if I turned up at their door with a half eaten Chelsea bun, they would think I had lost the plot.

I mean it's big but it's not that big. It looks too dry for me.

Ahh, perhaps the park street kitchen was where the sourdoughnuts were made. I'm sure they are doing them again now though - Pinkmans - but I have had to unfollow their Instagram as it just makes me long for cake all the time 😁

I remember once buying a doughnut abroad that was the size of my head. It was a great day 😁 and yes I did eat it all as I'm normal 😋 and it was a treat

The giant ones?

I'm very slim and I could demolish that within seconds and be ordering a couple of pizzas for pudding before you could say massive salad.

Yes, was it Euro Bakers, or a man on a beach? My first time a broad with my friends there was a man on the beach, selling huge doughnuts I'm sure it was all above board 😂

It won't be stale by tomorrow wrap it

Struggling to see how anyone would be anything other than delighted about a much larger than expected cake

Well I'd have to take a run at it but I reckon I could see it off in one sitting ... o that's a teaspoon! I thought it was a spade.

I'm a certified fatty and I think that is too much for one person!
Could I eat it? Definitely!
Should I eat it? Absolutely not!
I really think we need a massive shift in our thinking in this country with regards to food.
Instead of council planners approving more takeaways on every high street they should be left to dwindle away with each shop closure. We need less apps such as Just Eat and Deliveroo available, not more.
We also need a better work/life balance to allow people time to cook fresh healthy meals for themselves and their families (ie not just the upper middle classes being able to have a parent at home or working part time to be able to be home in time to make a decent meal)
Lastly, we need to get back to lots of seasonal fresh products being available at a price everyone can afford, butchers and greengrocers on every high street (Instead of sodding takeaways!) Most supermarkets are full to the brim with UPF's and the fresh fruit and veg take up a tiny corner with minimal choice.
Obviously fresh healthy food is available if you make the effort to get it but with everyone working at full capacity, extra curriculars for the kids, trying to maintain a social life and everything else involved running a family people take the easy option, is it really surprising we are all getting fatter.
The technology that has meant to make our lives easier is slowly sucking the life out of us and few of us have the energy left to do anything about it.
Rant over!

This is so offensive! People who aren't overweight are constantly being shamed on Mumsnet for eating like birds but if you dare to insinuate someone's fat it's considered rude. I'm going to dare to presume that most people making mean comments about 'competitive under eaters', 'eating like a bird', slim people only eat salad, 'skinny' people wouldn't do so in real life, wouldn't like to be judged about their own seemingly gargantuan appetites or the fact that they are indeed fat.

I'm sure some people will pile on and say 'I'm fat and proud', 'I'm fat but I eat nothing' but it doesn't change the fact that there are constant threads where posters shame people of a normal weight. This is an awful thread full of people who want to normalise eating too much. 68% of adults in the UK (22-23) are overweight or obese. This thread sums up why.

Haha! I know!

And the logic of people saying stuff like this while also saying "wagon wheels and curly wurlys have got much smaller! Remember when a tin of quality street was massive?!"

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Gosh I can't believe that anyone could possibly eat all of that bun. My son is 6'5 with hollow legs and would struggle.

Not that he would eat a bun though of course!. We go for a walk to our local artisan bakery once a month to stand outside and sniff. All the joy without the calories.

No wonder the NHS is on it's knees.