To think people eat one heck of a lot!

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See it all over, online, on here, in real life.
People have to have three pretty substantial meals per day or they think they'll starve or not get enough nutrients.
A good amount of people, men especially, think a cold meal or salad based meal is not a real meal, or anywhere near enough to pass as one.
If it isn't huge, or hot, people often think it isn't value for money.

It isn't uncommon to hear 'rabbit food' or such when people choose cold or salad based meals.

Myself, I love both, and eat a warm meal most evenings, so don't have much of a horse in the race, but I do think it's a thing.
Not sure how other cultures go about it, would be interesting to find out.

Is it a UK specific thing, to always need a large hot meal several times per day?
A typical example is:
Porridge and berries of full breakfast english style etc for breakfast.
Baked potato with tuna, or salad for lunch, or soup with whatever and copious amounts of pulses.
Then cottage pie or something equally large for dinner.
Then, often, a later meal, give or take.
And a lot of us are still hungry after this, or snack in between, so WTF is going on!?

But big hot meals really aren't a thing.
Far far far more people eat cereal and cold milk for breakfast than eat porridge - as evidenced by the entire aisle of cereal boxes versus the single shelf of porridge oats you'll find at most supermarkets.
And I'd bet the most common lunches will be sandwiches (cold), or a salad (cold), perhaps soup at a push in cooler months. Soup is often lighter and far less calories than sandwiches despite it being (the horror!!) warm.
I'd say most people I know only eat 1 warm/hot meal a day, in the evening?

Besides which, it matters not if the food is warm or cold. Plenty of cold food is nonetheless high in calories!

Toilet goblin!
genius.

Do slugs like them? I have loads of the buggers and I have to be careful what I grow.

One of my sons earlier today put 2 entire blocks of halloumi in the air fryer for a snack. Not sure it’s at all relevant but I’ve got nobody else to tell so I thought I’d drop it here.

Bet the OP didn't think their thread would turn into a gardening thread 😂

Sunday is a day of penance dear child. You should ask for forgiveness.

I do think the majority of people eat too much. We think that we are eating what we need, but we actually need a lot less than we think. There are lots of studies which show that eating less or intermitent fasting extends life. Wild animals spend their lives in a state of hunger, whereas humans often eat because it’s ‘lunchtime’ or ‘dinner time’. How often do people feel really hungry before having a meal?

A few years ago I read a book called ‘Don’t sleep, there are snakes’ about a missionary who went to live with a tribe in the Amazon. He commented about how little they ate. He brought couple of indigenous people with him to America and he mentioned how surprised they were whenever they were presented with food even though they had already eaten that day.

Last year I had to take some medication for 2-3 months for a health issue. The side effect was lack of appetite. Although I barely ate during that period, I was alert, didn’t feel too tired or hungry, didn’t have tummy pains and I didn’t lose much weight. On the other side, this year I feel constantly hungry (must be peri-menopausal). Which version of my ‘body’ do I listen to when deciding how much to feed it, the one from last year who was doing very well on 30% of the food I eat now, or the current version who asks for food all the time?

1. Love sweet peas, glorious
2. Don't mind the word meal (sorry)
3. Do not care for copious amounts of pulses, with or without hot soup

That is all.

Hey @BunnyRuddington, you’ll like this story. Years ago I had a new colleague, she moved to the area for the job, sort of job when we were on the road a lot. She couldn’t understand why everyone in the company seemed to know the same couple, took her nearly two years to realise what people meant when they said ‘go out past Bert and Joyce’ 😆

Preparing garden snails for human consumption sounds like a right ball-ache -- you're supposed to put them in a bucket and feed them with loads of green stuff like lettuce for about two weeks to purge them in case they have eaten any toxic plants.

And they will constantly try to escape from the bucket too.
I've seen live snails on sale in markets in Spain, they are continually on the move, making weird clicking and clacking noises with their shells as they try and climb over each other. It's a bit ...unsettling.

I agree, especially the way my Mum used to make it - a huge gooey lump in the middle of a bowl surrounded by a sea of cold milk.

You’re right we bow to @BatchCookBabe user name checks out

Not especially, at least in my cold clay soil. Mice bloody go mad for them though. Bastards.

I prefer the dwarf varieties which are almost self supporting. You plant them in cut figures of 5 dots, like on the face of a dice. And then replant them when they've been eaten

Unlike carrots and onions etc they end up being much cheaper than the supermarket.

Since having kids I barely ever eat a hot meal. After they are fed and settled, my partner and I get to enjoy a cooled, slightly dried out shit version of what they got to eat 😅.

That's frustrating, isn't it?
The rosemary I planted last year is half dead (dead, I said) and upon examination of the needles (?) it looks as though it has a disease of some sort. They're spotted brown-ish 🧐😥
I'm in Zone 8b. Haven't planted anything yet this spring, but I plan to this coming weekend. My neighbours have been at it, though. (Gardening, that is). 🤣

Needed plenty of sugar with it too.

I hope he got a chance to pack his bags before you slung him out. The HALLOUMI???

This is the only thread where you can get told you’re greedy and get gardening advice - women multi tasking as always I see

I think this is a new Peak Mumsnet moment, "copious amounts of pulses."

As you can see from my name change I was too slow so someone else got there before me. Anyway, I ate a bowl of porridge for breakfast today, I won't need dinner tonight.

Don't think DH has sown his yet so you should be ok.
Most things catch up.
We are in Cambridge

What is zone 8B? Is this some stealth extension of London Underground?

Who is getting too thin? Not the UK population anyway.

So I’m gathering that I can plant out my sweet peas, leave the sunflowers and tomatoes (aka triffids) on the windowsill and sow some sugar snaps or French beans this weekend?

I think it’s a pencil?

Have you tried warm steamed milk? I cook up steel-cut oats and add a bit of brown sugar and cinnamon in the bowl then some warm frothy milk left over from making a cafe latte. It's quite nice that way.