Is this too big a portion?

[fishfingergate]

Context that my dad said he couldn’t believe I was eating “all that”
don’t judge the oven food, it’s Thursday and I’m tired!

So you answered a question no one asked.

Well done you.

🤣🤣🤣

Too many peas. I don't like peas.

She was just mad I wasn’t a 5ft size 6 ballerina type
frankly given her brother was a heavyweight boxer and her dad a wrestler, I’m not quite sure why she expected me to be tiny
I look perfectly normal if I stand next to family, we are all broad shouldered and tall

A lot of fish fingers but overall thats a normal sized meal

Dear lord you can never have too many fish fingers. All the people saying they'd only have 2. It's not worth turning the oven on for two...

It's the perfect amount of fishfingers. I'd have more veg and fewer waffle things. But broadly speaking, anyone judging portion size can naff off.

Looks fine to me.

My, just turned, 2yr old DGS has 3 fish fingers.

If you’re overweight (be honest with yourself), it’s too much. If you’re normal weight and body fat %, it’s acceptable. It’s that simple.

I could easily eat 5 fish fingers. I might have less potato in the interests of 'being good', but in reality I could polish off the meal in the OP photo with no trouble.

That’s not true though is it? The calorie count on it isn’t that high. Depends what else you’ve eaten and what you’ve done whether it’s ’too much’ but it’s very unlikely it’s going to be as the main meal for an adult.

The airfryer has been a boon for that, I can only eat around 2 fishgingers, saves wasting the oven.

Fish fingers aren't exactly filling, I'd eat 3 just snacking out of the air fryer on the way to dishing up. I'm 5ft and a healthy weight and thing if I ate your dinner I'd be snaffling around the kitchen in hours time feeling peckish.

We do homemade fish fingers and chips and my 1yo would eat that without any issue! Honestly no idea how the public are so overweight when most of this thread are adults claiming 2 fish fingers is all they'd eat!

No, not too much, I could (and would) easily eat that

You can’t possibly know if it’s ’too much’, overweight or not, without knowing what else the OP eats in a day and how active she is.

This thread is making me crave fish fingers!

If I wasn’t in bed I’d be making a fishfinger sandwich.

Is that too much for breakfast? Do I have to wait til lunch?

I don't think most people are judging. OP asked whether we thought it was too much so people are just giving their opinions.

5 fish fingers is less than 300 calories. The waffle fries maybe 400. Veg, another 100 maybe. 800 calories for an evening meals allows you another 1000 calories for everything else, more if you're young, big built and/or active. So depending on what you've eaten the rest of the day, that's about right, possibly even on the light side.

I have five fish fingers, with chips and peas. I don’t eat desserts. I think your portion size is ok.

Entirely normal. Yours sincerely someone size 8 👌

Do you have an eating disorder?

No ethnic British women should be eating with the aim of being 7 stone. We are going to go back to were women were bent over post menopause and died from falls/fractures. If you are doing weight bearing exercise and are naturally light, fair enough, but I've never met a woman who is fit/strong and anywhere near that light. Bone density matters. All the research shows that being slightly overweight, or at the top of the recommended wright is good as women age.
For the posters declaring that they have one fishfinger, with salad, you need to nourish your body with good fats and protein.

I can eat 8 fish fingers in one go so your plate looks fine to me and I'm size 8.
Your dad must think women live on thin air.

There's only about 600 calories on your plate.
This would not fill me up for dinner.
I'd be straight onto desert and probably a snack in a couple of hours.

I would probably cook 4 fish fingers, out of habit 'cos that's what I'd put on a fish finger sandwich!

I am trying to lose weight at the moment so chip amount would depend on what else I'd have had throughout the day, and I'd have had at least double the veg. If I wasn't trying to lose weight, that's an absolutely fine portion (with the extra veg).

But, we do eat big portions - I'm also a volume eater. Hence loads of veg. I dont really have an "I'm getting full" sensation until I'm stuffed due to childhood eating so struggle with portions and trying to fill myself up.

In fact, you've just unlocked a memory whereby I was at the lower end of my BMI and was eating a chicken and veg pie (with filo pastry) and half a plate of veg for lunch and someone said how do you eat so much? Was probably around 500-600 cals for the whole thing and was my main meal of the day.

I've always had people commenting on my weight and what I eat, so I sympathise. I grew up being told I had to eat everything on my plate (that I hadn't served and was too much) cos there were starving people abroad and then I had an aunt telling me that I looked like I had 2 bums because I had a belly. And then another aunt, when my daughter had an ice cream as a treat, saying "if she keeps eating like that, she'll be like a barrel". Actual fk them.

Lets face it 3 bites of a fish finger and its gone! Hope you enjoyed it OP