… 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

Realistically, they have to make things big enough to justify £1.50 as it wouldn't be worth it for them to make smaller ones at 75p when you factor in all the overheads etc. The raw ingredients are usually the cheapest element of food production, so making items bigger so that they can actually sell at a profit is what they need to do.

@Bookmark1111

thats utter tripe! In 1993, no one had a 1/4 hit cross bun or 3/4 of a crumpet!

'Growlybear83 · Today 15:44
Rickrolypoly · Today 15:34
Honestly still cant believe people would freeze half a fucking bun.
😆😆😆me neither. I sometimes think I must be living in a parallel universe to most of the people who inhabit the Mumsnet world.'

We are advising the people who are thinking of wasting a bun. We would not necessarily freeze half a bun.
The freezing advice does not mean that I would not eat the entire thing. Preferably with a dollop of clotted cream, as it looks a little dry.

Chelsea buns are basically bread with just a touch of fat and sugar. Calorie-wise they're not at all comparable to a slice of Victoria sponge or a slice of tiffin, which have far more butter/fat and sugar.

I think going forward we will always need teaspoons for scale on food related threads.

Maybe the thread about the family who were scared of pâté would make more sense if we saw how big it was next to a teaspoon 😬

Enjoy it! (You could always just have the infamous Massive Salad for dinner if you think it's excessive)

Bookmark1111 · Today 14:00
For heaven's sake, it's not fat shaming anyone to point out that portion sizes have increased ridiculously over the years! It's a few years old now, but this graphic was in a newspaper article quoting Cambridge Uni experts on the subject and it showed how much more is dished up these days and how normalised bigger portions have become.

But I am finding the opposite! Sure my kitkat has shrunk, and my hobnobs, and my jaffa cakes

But who would waste freezer space on half a bun? What's wrong with chucking out half a bun if you're not going to eat it? The foxes in my garden would love it.

I said that. I googled the typical calorie count. Ones in bakeries are made full of air and with less sugar. Ones in supermarkets are smaller but more sugary and dense.

It might be a big ol' bun but jam doughnuts have DEFINITELY got smaller over the tears so it all evens out.

Looks a bit small for me

We split two ways and yeah, half a bun would be a nice little bread and butter pudding for me. I'd probably put blackberries in it.

Yanbu thats bloody rodidiculois. No wonder there is so much food waste in this country.

It costs pence to make and is oversized so that people feel like they have a bargain and can reason to themselves that it's "just one". It's not. It's about 4.

If that was a massive serving spoon I ‘might’ agree. But as it stands, I don’t.

Nobody gives a shit about your performative bird-like appetite, OP. Either eat the fucking bun or don't eat it; no need to make a fuss.

I knew when I skipped forward to page 9 there'd be a bun fight.

😏😏😏

But who would waste freezer space on half a bun? What's wrong with chucking out half a bun if you're not going to eat it? The foxes in my garden would love it.

You'd get the side eye from my fox. She is far more pernickety bun wise.

You've missed the point. In 1993, crumpets would be 3/4 smaller than they are etc. Food portions have been sized up in the passing decades and now there's an obesity epidemic.

I find the anger on this thread about fat shaming so hypocritical. Why is it okay for posters to shame OP and others just because they eat less???? My teen DD is very tall for her age, naturally lean and has a small appetite. Family members constantly tell her she's too skinny in a way they'd never dream of telling her obese uncle that he's too fat, and they try to force more food on her all the time – how is that okay?

That would be going straight down my Gregory 😆
The birds wouldn't get a look in!!

I freeze everything!
Local cake shop does great brownies so when I go I get 4-6 and freeze them. Parmesan rinds get frozen, 2 slices of bacon to use in a pasta bake etc or a few pieces of bread for toast

My dad went to bin a Parmesan rind and I was "noooooooooo"

Firstly almost all bakeries have a set weight of uncooked dough that goes into each and every bun. If you do not think to do this you cannot provide uniformity of product and it messes with your costs. They are finally shaped and then left for a final proving before being cooked. Chelsea buns include yeast as an ingredient and they are counted as a bread related product not a cake. hence the name bun.

In cooler weather the same weight of dough tends to produce a smaller bun as the yeast prefers warmth. In a heatwave the yeast gets rather busy and you end up with a far larger product.

Both products weigh almost the same (allowing for slight vagaries amongst bakers) but the heatwave made bun will look ginormous when set against a bun made in the colder winter.

You could use the rest of the bun to make bread and butter pudding. Or slice it up to make French toast.

It looks great!

I doubt it's 6 inches square, maybe 4 .Reminds me of the carrot cake we used to buy in the US, about 5 inches square and 3 inches deep, we used to cut it into 4 pieces! The bun will freshen up tomorrow with a few seconds in the microwave.

Crumpets were not 3/4 smaller in 1993. What rubbish.