please critique our dinner

[WhereTheFuckIsMyFuckingCoat]

I'd be really grateful if you lot would critique our dinner tonight, to see how healthy/nutritious it is.

Each plate had:

55g rump steak
2 X baby potatoes roasted in olive oil
1/4 pink onion, roasted with pots
60g champignons, sautéed in butter
130g mixed salad
10g crispy noodles (on salad)
Approx 3tbsp mustard gravy, made with steak juices, tbsp wholegrain mustard, and a few gravy granules

Oh and the crispy noodles are chow mein noodles, shallow fried until crisp, then stored in an airtight container until some are needed for salad, or on a Chinese meal.

Tiny portions of protein, particularly for such a small portion of carbs. What's the point of the noodles? I'd have one or two extra spuds, particularly for the bigger members of the household and forget the noodles.

It sounds nice and I understand that the sauce on the steak wouldn't be touching the salad.

But I would need portion sizes of steak and potatoes to be doubled.

I was gobsmacked to read a PP saying that she would be 'stuffed' after eating your potion sizes but maybe that's how people stay slim. I think I'll just stay a size 14!

People getting uptight about "gravy" it's commonly used as a term for sauce outside the confines of the UK.

110g of steak sounds far more reasonable (and what I'd have for an everyday meal), but I'd still up the spuds (nutritious) and forget the noodles (not)

I think the crispy noodles are out of a packet. They're dried things that you often put on Asian soups, for example, for some crunch. They're not freshly deep-fried.

The gravy/sauce would be on top of the steak. Just a bit, not pooling on the plate.

The salad doesn't touch the sauce.

HTH.

Remove the champignons
Remove the gravy
Remove the potatoes
Remove the noodles

and you have a healthy dinner. Can I ask which dressing you put on the salad? Olive oil and vinegar + healthy, otherwise -- healthy

Ha! Cross-posted with OP.

I don't think the meat/potato servings sound abnormally small at all.

Huh? Why would you need to remove all those things, Firie?

Should nobody ever eat a potato, mushroom or scattering of noodles?

Sounds lovely and the right portion size for me. DP would want a few more baby potatoes.

I thought the same, Koala. Banning food groups is not the way to eat healthily in my book...

Sounds fine to me, although not sure about the noodles!

I thought that it was quite usual to have salad as an accompaniment to a meal?

Are mushrooms on the latest Banned List?

I think 110g of steak is tiny. I think 130g of lettuce would be very bulky for a dinner plate. The combination is, in my opinion con'fusion'. The type of meal you'd put together to finish up what's left in a fridge before you go on holidays, it's probably fairly healthy...I hope you enjoyed it though.

And I hate that potatoes have basically been brought down to junk food status. It's nonsense.

"The salad doesn't touch the sauce. "

Or you can use a side plate!

The OP asked if this meal was considered healthy or not. In my opinion it is not.
Too many sauces,
highly processed food (dried noodles) and gravy,
Potatoes cooked in butter.

Tasty, certainly, healthy not so much.

thanks OP. do you cook them first, or fry from dry?
I remember crispy friend noodles as a kid, but not had them for years.

I still don't why you want to ask and the answers will all be so hugely different that it's a pretty pointless exercise.

But, since you asked ...

I would never think to put crispy noodles on a salad. I would prefer my new potatoes to be steamed and I would probably eat about 5 small ones. I wouldn't have gravy or sauce with the steak, I would have some french mustard.

Hth.

It's just steak, pots, veg & & side salad!

I think that I would have had the mushrooms raw in the salad.

I suppose it depends how much oil/butter was used?

Firie - there's one sauce - made with pan juices and mustard (not cream or oil).

The potatoes are roasted in olive oil, not butter.

There is about one tablespoon of noodles. Not even a mouthful.

Obviously you're entitled to your opinion, but am not sure you read the OP properly!

This is the strangest thread I've ever read!
Very odd meal. I think I'd actually be offended if someone served that to me.

Everything sounds nice individually but not as a combination. I would either have:

• steak, mushrooms, potatoes
• steak, salad, potatoes
• steak, noodles, salad

But I wouldn't have noodles and potatoes in the same dish. Seems a bit overkill to me.

I love that the knee jerk response of some mumsnetters that anyone else's meal is huge and "I would be stuffed if I ate all that" was triggered even though the OP got it wrong and said her steak was 55grams...

Neither DH or I usually eat carbs with our evening meal, just the protein and salad or veg, as long as the sauce wasn't running all over the plate its fine... last night we had two chicken thighs each diced and cooked with a teeny bit of bacon and some mushrooms, dollops of crème fraiche and some smoked paprika and salad...yum! Would much rather the saucy bit than carbs! Tonight is pork steaks with a seeded mustard, cream cheese topping with a little breadcrumbs and parmesan mixed in on top and we'll have veg tonight. Been eating like that for a few years now and no bother, don't miss carbs at night at all. I am a day hungry person, once I eat evening meal I don't eat again until the next day, not by any great willpower just the way my body works.