Eyes bigger than belly

I wish, Bags but alas my belly area is much, much bigger than even both eyes plus various other parts of my anatomy put together

A little of what you fancy does you good!

Hi Bags

When I go to a restaurant generally I order a soup and a main course and then decide if I want anything like apple pie.
Often I am full with just the 2 courses.

Frank

Most people do order starter and main before they order pudding, don't they?

I think it depends what sort of restaurant you go to.

At a local restaurant I go to they try to get you to order all your food at the same time.

Frank

I like the option of a starter and a pudding - that way you often get lots of variety - some starters are more exciting than many mains and you can still have a pudding (without total gluttony alert). Result!

I sometimes have 2starters, I find that plenty.

(And then a pudding?) I really need a sweet taste to round off a meal, although sometimes a liqueur coffee will do it.

Me too Galen.

No, I prefer savoury.

Me too, gracesmum. A couple of local Italian restaurants do starter or main size versions of the same dishes, so I can have the same as others, with room for panaccotta or tiramisu.

One of the reasons I have gone off "going for an Indian". DH always wants a starter and then always orders too much. Even with just naan and no rice. Yeuch. Far too filling.

I would happily graze on all the chutneys, poppadoms and titbits that are set in front of us before we choose our meals. By the time the curry arrives, I'm full!

So much for starting to lose the 3 lbs. I have put on over Christmas. I have just been to a children's birthday party at Odile's house and I have vastly overeaten carbs. Four small potatoes , two huge hunks of French bread, a big salad and two helpings of melted cheese, known as raclette. Plus three glasses of wine.
I am pinning my hopes on my daughter - I have asked her to be firm with me and not let me finish up all the unused food in the pan.

When I lived in Germany, I often met a friend for 'lunch'. Lunch was two jugs of coffee and two cakes! Somehow the cakes were less sickly-sweet than those in Blighty, but it was a specialist cake shop! I certainly couldn't do the same here.....

I like to graze lots of little nibbles.

If I eat pudding at all, it's the entire meal. Just as well I don't eat puddings often then!

I don't count biscuits with coffee/tea between meals as pudding

Bags, now you're talking! Puddings have to be 'proper'. I've got visions of my lovely Mum's steamed blackberry suet pudding. Biscuits just don't compare!

I think a starter spoils the enjoyment of the main meal. And leaves no room for the essentialpud The latter can be ice cream.

Especially banana and pecan.

One of our local Italian eateries offers 3 course lunch menus for £6.95, £7.95 or £8.95. What to do but have all three? And the quality is very good too! Now don't all rush at once.