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!

Nope, understand it perfectly.

Just find it ridiculous. Luckily it's a free world and we're all allowed our opinions!

Depends if you like the components that make it up, I guess 🤷🏻‍♀️

@fishfingergate Your dad's is the one with lamb on the patterned plate...that's my guess, anyway.

Exactly - I had bigger portions than that at primary school.

Two fish fingers indeed, lol.

I mean it’s edible. I would prefer freshly cooked veg and a meal someone else had made for me but here we are!
I didn’t eat all the fish fingers in the end as the cat demanded one

Yup!

Depends on a few things. Have you just had a workout? Are you on day 1 or 2 of your period? Are you cold? All this sort of stuff makes me need more food.

If no to any of the above, then it might be a little much for me, but it isn't so much that anyone should be gasping and asking if you're "eating all that??"

Why even bother with the fish finger?

They are already fried when you buy them aren't they?

If you are overweight then that's probably too big a portion, yes, though I understand the difficulties, and possibly unwise choices.

I’d eat that for dinner, no problems. I’m not keen on fish fingers but I do like breaded frozen haddock (weird I know, they are basically the same) so I’d have a chunky bit of breaded haddock. It’s not a lot of volume or calories?
I have a healthy bmi.

I wouldn't have as many of the fries, but probably max three fish fingers and veg (minus the sweetcorn, I don't like sweetcorn x)

That’s a huge portion to me. I would only eat half of that

I’m cold all the time as work is cold and have an under active thyroid! No periods, no workout tonight

I would probably have 3 fish fingers not 5, but I'd have pretty much all of the rest, and I'm not a huge eater. That's not a massive amount of food.

How rude to comment on what you're eating. I HATE people who do that.

Comparing food and portion sizes with anonymous strangers is pretty pointless - some people will pride themselves on how small their dinner is and then eat 800kcal worth of digestive biscuits afterwards without even noticing. Which is fine. But everyone is different.

It would be too much for me personally, but my husband would say it’s not enough, everyone is different! And depending on energy levels, what else you’ve eaten in a day, level of exercise etc its just not possibly to reliably comment really.

I’d eat all that!

Now I want a fish finger sandwich!

Looks fine to me,a lot of it is veg. Of course they'll be people posting saying one fish finger a teaspoon of veg and one of the potato things is more than enough for them. They'd be absolutely 'stuffed' 😂

Are you on a diet?

Yeah it was either that or eat nothing and as I’ve previously had an eating disorder I try to eat. If I’m tired I go with protein, veg, carb in whatever combo

maybe next time I should just have the veg but I didn’t want to bin the fries I’ve already bought

You will get a lot of comments on here saying they'd eat half of that, but yes OP, it's a normal portion. I'd just have one less fish finger I like the number 4 more than 5 😂🤷

This is Mumsnet so you’d be best saying you just sniffed the fish fingers and it’d fill you til Christmas

I would have fewer waffles - but apart from that - I don't see what the big deal is about!

I'd eat that much