Banning large portions ---- money making for the companies

[KangaMummy]

I think that if they ban large choc bars large bags crisps that people will just buy 2.

OK I do realise that children are too used to getting big portions of everything.

I remember when in USA last time we ordered a large pizza in pizza restaurant to share as a family of 3. It was HUGE and we couldn't eat it all and they said we could take a doggy bag if we wanted. The waiter said that customers from UK often order large to share and not be able to eat it all as they don't realise how much bigger it will be.

I think it is all a big con and that they will just alter the prices so we end up spending more money.

OK rant over what do you think?

they wer etalking about htis on loose women about 5 mins ago

agree, agree, agree Kangamummy. Had a conversation with my dss's about this over the weekend and my youngest dss said exactly the same that people will just buy more chocolate bars rather than just one large bar

if a kid goes into a sweet shop with their pocet money, they will spend the same amount on sweets, regardless of the size of the bars/bags.

Us Americans also order large pizzas to share, so I'm not sure what that waiter was talking about!

I do think that you're less likely to eat 2 smaller bags of crisps than one big bag of crisps. (At least, I am.) To actually finish the one bag and then make a conscious decision to open a 2nd. I would really have to be doing some major comfort eating to do that, whereas if it's just one bag, you easily sit there until it's all gone.

i'm not too fond ofchoccies, (Except thortons vienesse truffles, but a bag of them last me a week). but i know dh would eat huge bags of crisps if i let him which is why we have stopped buying multipacks of crisps.

sorry Kate I did not mean to say that in USA they are too fat and eat too much.

I am very fat BTW

I am just repeating what he said. It was a much bigger than we had expected. It wasn't in a chain like pizza hut.

I didn't think that was what you had said, KangaMummy! Maybe I misunderstood you. Is a large pizza in the US bigger than a large pizza in the UK?

It looks like the companies may be trying to act now so that it seems that they are tackling the obesity issue in the country, before the government try to make them. And doing this is a small step for them, that may even increase sales.

I don't think people will buy 2. Like Kate says, I'd eat a whole bag, but I wouldn't open another one. And TBH, I don't mind if they charge more for high fat foods - if it re-trains people regarding portions, then that's a good thing. No-one's being forced to buy chocolate and crisps.

no course they're not but there is a bit of a mental block for a lot of people in that if it's sold in the shops, and you 'trust' that shop or that brand name, people somehow equate the product with being ok. i.e. 'if it's on the shelf, then it must be ok'. So if bars of chocolate are sold in ginormous jumbo packs, then someone, somewhere is giving us the go-ahead to eat it. Yes, it's up to us not to be so stupid, but generally we do seem pretty stupid when it comes to believing the marketing, buying and bingeing.