AIBU to think bacon sandwich lunch is not greedy?

[AliceNotInChains]

2 small slices of bread (from a 400g loaf)
3 rashers of bacon
1 small tomato
a slice of cheese.

a family member says it’s greedy and fattening. For breakfast I had 2 weetabix and have had nothing inbetween.

This is hilarious.

It's really not rude to eat lunch, at lunchtime, while a friend does you a favour.

I offered her a sandwhich, didn’t have to be bacon she could have had a cheese and tomato, tuna and mayo … anything! I’m not going to go hungry just because she’s refusing to eat

We obviously have different standards of manners and consideration. Weird.

WTF have just read?? 😬

The OP isn't responsible for anyone else's diet, weight or choices.

She's entitled to eat what she wants in her own home.

Your take is utterly bizarre.

Food can't be described as greedy so for a start shes taking rubbish and fattening is also meaningless

Engage with stupid if you want, I'd be ignoring her

She could choose to be supportive of her sister who is doing her a favour? Idk that just seems like basic manners to me

Oh my. That’s a bit ott.

Anyone helping with a blocked drain is a kindness. What a nice relative.

Unfortunately people aren't one dimensional.

She has issues with food and probably body image/self esteem: liquid diet, commenting on your food etc.

She is projecting her own insecurities onto your choices. Try not to let it get to you.

She probably feels like she's doing 'all the work' unblocking drain, eating a shit shake while you're lounging and eating a bacon sarnie.

No it's not fair to look at it that way either but try to just set it aside and move on.

I'm not sure I'd eat a bacon sandwich for lunch. Not because it's greedy but because it wouldn't fill me up. I need more than that.

Delish!

That would probably be a starter/entree for me!

Nom. Nom. Nom.

Your 'family member' needs to mind their onions!

Two words for them, the 1st beginning with F and the 2nd ... O ...

Don't give their stupid opinion another thought OP and who the F*CK are they telling you what you can and cannot eat!

I love a BLT on Sourdough and have mine with a mix of Mayonnaise and Salad Cream and Gem Lettuce ... and now I want one too!

Ridiculous.

Assuming she didn't make her sister fat by forcing food into her mouth and moving her jaw up and down, the sister has no say in what the OP or anyone else around her eats.

She must shit kittens every time she walks down the high street if she can't handle food smells.

Next you'll be advising her to report her next door neigbours to the council, if they dare to light the BBQ! 😱

People actually thinking they're promoting healthy eating by banging on about the evils of one bacon sandwich 😅

You are the actual problem.

It’s not ‘very unhealthy’ depending on what else the OP’s diet contains. And being overweight doesn’t affect whether it’s a good choice either - perfectly possible to eat bacon sandwiches for lunch every now and then (or every day, but that might start to get into unhealthy territory) and still be in calorie deficit.

I can’t stand the prissy moralising of describing food intake as ‘greedy’ unless you’re leaving someone else short or you’re a small child learning about moderation in terms a small child can understand. Greedy is helping yourself to three of the four tapas you’re sharing with a friend or demolishing half the chocolate cake someone brings to the office before everyone’s had a chance to try it. It’s not an adult eating their own food.

Whether food is ‘too much’ comes down to health, finances and whether you feel like it. Moral judgement doesn’t come into it. I’d have no time for someone tutting over a sandwich.

No one food or one meal is ‘fattening’. Is it higher in calories than some options? Of course. It’s also lower than some.

Whilst I love and often have a BLT for lunch (including a bowl of soup if its a 400g loaf😱), I would probably choose a less torturous smelling filling than bacon if my family member was trying to lose weight on a liquid diet; and, I might add, doing me a big favour. Even the odd vegetarian has been known to crumble at the smell of bacon, you sadist 😂

Thanks for the inspiration OP.
I just went to the shop and got some bacon.
BLT for lunch.
Well, B, rocket and T.

If someone is struggling with weight issues (which I assume the OP’s sister is if she’s on a liquid only diet) it’s kinder to be supportive surely?

The sister was helping the OP so why not be kind?

The OP and her sister seem to have a history of arguments that OP then shares on here. Frying up bacon in front of someone who is probably starving is rage baiting in my opinion.

Obviously the sister was wrong to say what she did.

I'd swap out the cheese for some lettuce leaves and add a light smearing of mayo to the bread so you have a fairly virtuous BLT. 😉

It's not weird to have different opinions about what constitutes reasonable social interactions.

Your opinion is the slightly outlying one, for want of a better phrase. Most people wouldn't consider eating lunch at lunchtime a particularly rude thing to do. The friend was doing a somewhat unpleasant favour for the OP, but that doesn't mean that the OP 'owes' the friend not eating. The fact that is is bacon is irrelevant. Some people like it, some don't.

What exactly is rude about eating lunch at lunchtime, while a friend does a favour, if she's choosing not to eat? Why do you think it is somehow 'good manners' to NOT eat?

I'm with this poster., not that I would say this in person . When i worked i had the same lunch daily, chicken soup and a roll and the comments about "are you having that again Lazy" i kept saying i like chicken soup and it's not bothering anyone.
The last person to ask i did say that they must tell me if they think my memory is going because I don't recall asking anybody's opinion on what I ate and to pass that on to everybody. They stopped commenting.

Is it heck
2 slices of bread (assuming medium sliced as OP specified small. Could even be thin sliced) about 200
3 rashers of bacon (assuming back bacon and not think sliced) about another 200 (could be less or more)
A ‘slice’ of cheese is hard to define but a small chunk of cheddar is 150
1 tomato - about 11
I don't put butter on bacon sarnies, but if OP did a Pat that’s 1inch square and 1/2 inch high is 36
So a total of about 600 absolute max

In the afternoon I do, it’s a chocolate covered custard cream today and it’s glorious!

I think you are being unreasonable for adding cheese on it !

I see contispation and not an ounce of fibre OP! Your sandwich looks fine and delicious but please for the sake,of your colon add some veggies and/or fruits to your lunch