… 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

I have a hearty appetite but wouldn't want yo eat all that. I'm sure I could but wouldn't really enjoy it. I'd eat one half day and half the next.

Who says all people with a low appetite are thin as well? It doesn't always work that way. I get sick of comments made to me like "oh you're thin, you'll not be able to eat it", "it'll be too much for you" etc etc. Why do people think it is okay to tell me what "I" can eat.
i went for a carvery with dh, and the man carving the meat gave me the tiniest slice, and dh tons. I was really hungry that day having had no breakfast, so ordered the large portion plate. Who is anybody to assume what you do and don't eat? I'm thin and I can finish my dinner faster than dh, easily eat the same portion size. It doesn't mean I always do, but I can. I am really active, and sometimes I get hungry, I also like a big cake!! I am the type of person that would much rather have one huge slice of chocolate fudge cake to overindulgence, than a tiny bit now and then. It settle my craving much better thank splitting it up over the week. It is the same with icecream, I'd rather eat a magnum tub over 1-2 days than the whole week/month. It is the same amount of calories by the end of the time period.

Well said. The shaming on here of women who naturally don't eat much or don't want to is so hypocritical, because fat shaming is never allowed in the same way.

Why don't you just freeze it into 'your size' portions..? Cakes freeze well.

I'd eat that easily. (If I liked them. More of a Belgian bun kinda girl.)

This is like the mythical Mumsnet chicken that feeds the five thousand over ten months.

I'd eat that bun easily in one sitting and I'm not even sorry 🤪

I'd scoff that in one go. But I'm clearly a big fat fatty unlike teeny tiny petite OP.

Because we all get fed up of the “Ooh, I eat like a bird, me! brigade who are actually passive aggressively commenting on those they deem to eat too much.

It’s not OK to comment on what other people eat at all.

It’s not OK to comment on what other people eat at all.

Oh the irony!

So it's okay for all the skinny shamers to comment on what OP and other posters eat but god forbid they tell the fatties to step away from the cake aisle?

I’d see that away no probs.

Why does it have to be "fatties" in the cake aisle? I'm in the cake aisle and I'm thin!
This was my point earlier. Just because you're fat/thin doesn't mean you can eat a large cake/meal in one sitting. Op could be overweight for all we know.

Except everyone has decided otherwise and that she must be a skinny "orthoroexic" c*nt sneering at everyone else.

that's not a great bun though. Not enough fruit or sugar

I can't remember it was a few years back I just remember this doughnut I was in heaven 😍

Half now, half later. 🤷‍♀️

What a disgusting way to talk about people

Standard size of a Chelsea Bun in the 70s. Where's the big crunchy sugar that's supposed to cover the top?

Yes, how much you can eat in one sitting isn't a weight thing. It is the calories you eat all of the time, whether they be all at once, or a million little spaced out calorific snacks. Obviously how active you are is a huge factor as well.

I'd personally just rather have my treat allocation all at once in a big fat slab of cake, and skip the teeny tiny treats. I also like a large meal rather than 3 small meals. We are all different, it works for me, and I'm healthy. People just assume people who eat a certain way weigh a certain amount.

In op's case though, I'm unsure why the need for the thread about a bread bun?

I think you can ask “why the need?” for so many threads on MN!

OP and her fellow performative undereaters are the ones shaming others.

So not ironic at all.

No, mine are for bumper BBQ packs from Morrisons. More meat than myself and my 16-person family could eat in a month 😂

Where exactly has OP has shamed others? She hasn't, and nor have others. If people are reacting as though they're being shamed it's because of their own insecurities with being overweight/obese and overeating, nothing to do with OP.

Can anyone manage a wafer-thin mint after that measly-sized bun?

*Before I'm flamed, this is a wee joke for people of a certain age who remember Monty Python 😂

'Teaspoon for scale' 😄😄. I feel like this post is the most English thing I've ever seen.

Dunno - been vegetarian for over 30 years.