Feeding your family = weighing 20 stone ??

jalimall08 Smoothies look nice, I have a friend who puts oats in as well before whizzing it up.. An "on the go" breakfast.

silverlining48 Thank you. They are a joy.
As an encouragement to never give up hope I shared this story of reunion on the estranged Grandparents thread. They were very positive and interested.
Then suddenly certain people tried to mix me up in their row about which was the genuine thread. Apparantley there are two.

Personal messages arrived in my gransnet box.
I withdrew from the thread.
Anyone know what that's all about?

oopsadaisy Great advice all along. Thank you. I had not thought of hypnosis. Oh and yes plates both dinner and side are much bigger. I remember my Grandma buying a full dinner service in the early seventies. She was puzzled to receive two sets of circular dinner plates in two sizes. She deemed the larger size "disgusting because no one would be rude enough to eat so much " They never saw the light of day, confined to a dark cupboard for life.
Since then plates are even bigger.
Bowls are cavernous now. I collect crockery, as old as I can find (and afford). Dessert bowls were miniscule and very shallow. That's how they fitted into those corsets! I love your name oopsadaisy.

nelliemoser you made me smile. "Maybe it's time for cake". Brilliant attitude.

missadventure Flowers. How lovely, thank you.

bluebell Thank you. I've really been the same as you, don't have food in the house. That was easy when I didn't buy for little grandchildren and very hungry adult son. Hence the revived interest in cooking and baking.

I'm getting by in front of them at the moment by cooking , from scratch, nice healthy meals for them, but it will be something I dislike to eat. So I'm safe from temptation there.

Buying in cakes and biscuits that I don't like. Not baking them yet. The sugar police allow the children a certain ration!

Having food in the house is so hard, I feel uncomfortable. It's not the temptation as none of it is to my taste.
Feel like flinging it all out and having clean cupboards again.

Could you buy pretty tins and containers to keep the new food supplies in? Kind of like an extension of your crockery collection?

Oh, its not you who collects crockery.
Ok, well kind of like someone else's crockery collection then.

gmelon frozen strawberries go v mushy but in fact they are fine in a smoothie - so I keep some in the freezer for when DGD asks 'can we make smoothies please?'

MissA Sat 17-Mar-18 20:19:47
LOL

On that note, I'm off to bed, giggling as I go!

missadventure jalimall08
A further giggle for you both.
It is me who collects crockery! Oopsadaisy mentioned it first. Then me at 19.52.
Blame it on Saturday night beverages?

I started to collect Vintage Crockery as my DD1 and I were going to start a hire company, however it became such a difficult thing to set up that now all of it is in crates in my shed, which we don’t discuss, as DH says I should sell it, but it’s so pretty! And I do rotate it to use indoors. I lend it to anyone who wants to have a tea party or Christening, but they need a large car to move it. So there it sits, in my shed.
But the dishes are tiny, as are the cups and dinner plates, they obviously ate a lot less back in the day.

I have always loved to bake and rarely buy pre made food. My test is always to adapt whatever I am making to be low fat and low sugar ... it doesn’t always go to plan ! Some cakes are so bland, Nutella has been applied to make them edible for all !

I'm a size 6, an American 2 or 4. I was a 0. It's the correct size for my height, 4' 11 or kids 152!! It's impossible to buy clothes and I've never been able to just go out and buy a dress or trousers. Shoes also. I used to be a size 3 1/2 but now that size is a 3. Who stocks that size, or if so very little choice? All those tall models starve themselves and the fasion industry is still mostly using models that size. It's not a good example to our youngsters. Most shops don't stock a size 6 and never have. People say how lucky I am but I would so like being able to buy clothes that fit. But being over 60 I do watch what I eat. It's a great idea to freeze cake in portion sizes, I do that. Sorry for the rant, but it's been a life long problem.

My late husband liked to cook, but would never attempt baking. I think that he thought it was a bit cissy! He loved my baking, though, especially apple pie and coconut pyramids. I don’t bake now that he is gone, just buy now and again.

Yes gmelon...eat more than melons! Try a pie or two. Six stone st our age is scraggy!

I haven’t read all the comments but I think probably, we have huge portions these days-of everything. Apart from not being as active, I can’t see why else we put on weight in a way we didn’t years ago. This thread has inspired me to try just having a bit less...so I can bake for example, but cut myself a small slice of cake instead of the huge one I usually have! The problems come when you’re on holiday and buy food out- I find the portions too big but eat it mostly, anyway.

We were supposed to go out today but the snow has prevented that. I shall have to start doing something productive like craft or else I'll find myself baking

I bake one cake which roughly lasts 7 to 10 day’s in an airtight tin.
I cook a lot of meals over the week for my h and gd and myself, which a normally healthy meals.
We don’t eat huge meals now, we’ll never did anyway.
I find keeping to a sensible eating pattern of little but often is best. It’s harder in the cold weather to get out and walk and so I do light exercises to keep me mobile and keep busy through the day. My weakness used to be picking, biscuits etc.

Gmelon.
Common sense and willpower.
Knowing what is GOOD / RIGHT for you and STICKING to it.

gmelon you sound like you're struggling with food and have been all your adult life.
You can acknowledge that the advice from professionals is sound but you're unable to follow it. That's called addiction.
I have the opposite problem to you. I am addicted to food. Sugery food to be precise. But I'm diabetic. I know eating sugar is killing me. I know I could go blind. I'm in denial. I haven't been honest with the Drs at all. I tell them my blood sugar results are due to carbs that I eat.
I don't have any answers for you but I send you a virtual hug and best wishes ⚘

gmelon wow, size 6 is small. However I couldn't agree more. Unless my family are visiting, - they all live a long way away - i dare not make cake especially flapjack. I would just eat it all! Why is Mary Berry so petite? well done for your neat size gmelon. love from L size 16

gmelon I just want to say, after reading all of this thread, that you sound like a lovely lady, and I'm sorry about the MS my brother has it as did my late M-I-L.
I am only petite yet I have the oppostie problem, I just can't stop eating, through sheer boredom sometimes I think, and I have a few medical issues that prevent me exercising to any great extent although I try, even just 15 minutes walk every other day, leaves me very breathless as I live on top of a steep hill and I have asthma, but like you I've lost and gained stones, several times over the last 10 years, but always end up putting it all back on even though I've gone through real difficulty losing it in the first place. I'm less than 5 feet tall, but weigh 12 stones. It's very depressing.

I just wish there was a magic way to lose or gain weight.
However, I wish you good luck, and the best health you can hope for.

Lost half a stone off my already skinny frame when I had bad flue and went down to under eight stone. Looked awful! Took ages to put back on but am now around 8st 11 and feel and look so much better. Too skinny is as bad as too fat but no has any reticence in telling you, you are too skinny!!

Fran0251gmelon Fran thanks why on earth didn't I do it? It's so sensible what you said;
great idea to freeze cake in portion sizes, I already freeze slices of bread ready to toast if I have too much. I'm on my own so it's not easy to eat everything before it goes off.
I'm scared I've missed the point somewhere and might not have been helpful in my previous comment gmelon. I'm really sorry if this is so. I do struggle not to add to my already flabby body. I used to be extremely active and on the go so kept nice and trim, then became disabled so now I can't walk far and the pain prevents almost all useful exercise. Result = fat me, unless I cut back on food intake. Good luck with the baking for the family. I do understand! I give all the leftover cake to them to take home.

We need to be able to buy much smaller plates. We used to be able to buy smaller plates as lunch or breakfast plates but these have disappeared.

Now all plates are dinner-sized and the latest fad is for huge coup plates with a lip to stop your food from dropping off!

...smaller plates should be a thing with plenty of selection on our high streets, in our malls on online.

Not quite as small as those tapas plates.

Portion control needs to appeal to our eyes as well.

When I was young my mother baked cakes a fair bit. And we ate them! We ate bars of chocolate and bought bags of sweets from jars in the sweetie shop and drank full sugar pop. We never gave a thought to 'bad teeth' or 'calories'. Yet I don't remember hoards of overweight children. Happy days. I suppose it's confirmation that we were more active and we perhaps didn't eat the daily quantity of sweets, crisps etc that the youth of today seem to eat.

Yes portion control, the amount we are given/allow ourselves is huge compared to what my mum would have dished up years ago there is also such a large choice and supermarket shopping doesn't help. We also 'treat' ourselves much more now. You are slim gmelon and have some difficult health issues so I guess you are not really eating too many unhealthy foods. Just try and make sure you eat from each food section, dairy, carbs etc.and enjoy