Waitrose telling me how many calories I can have!

The most this could be is guidance - perhaps it’s a local pilot?

Is it to do with these 'proposals'? (I'm pretty sure that they are still proposals, though):

news.sky.com/story/calorie-limits-for-restaurant-and-supermarket-meals-11591442

Where there signs up about it ?

It’s true. It happened at the restaurant in Salisbury.

I’m sorry OP if this is true but my general rule is a)does it sound likely and b) can I collaborate it elsewhere. The answer to a and b at the moment is no.

I can't believe this. It's got to be a joke! Do they make you run around the car park if you buy too many calories?

I can’t find any link to this anywhere - can anyone else? It just seems so odd, my antennae went up

How dare they! Whatever happened to freedom of choice?
It is not their place to tell you what you can or can't eat. I would complain, loudly, to anyone who will listen.

As someone who loathes mash potatoes, I also usually swap them out and usually the only alternative is chips, which is fine by me.

I shop in Waitrose, but our local one only has a cafe. But if someone in any shop did that to me. I would demand to see the manager and I would kick up an unseemly row. I would threaten to contact the local paper - and do it if pushed.

It comes to something when you can't choose what you want to eat. I frequently ask for a jacket potato instead of chips.

That's absurd! Perhaps they should provide a questionnaire for you to fill in to show that you eat a healthy diet most of the time, so a 'treat' now and then is OK?! (I'm not being serious BTW!)

That sounds ridiculous! I quite like being told on a menu how many calories are in a dish, but only so that I can make a more informed choice - the emphasis on "I" as it's not anything to do with the person serving the meal.

OMG I thought this was a free country where you could choose for yourself what you want to eat, we are not babies that have to eat something that someone else chose for them.
I would be going elsewhere to eat in future

Wow! I've never heard that before. I'm surprised they don't make you stand on the scales before you choose your food. And what if someone who looks like a beanpole wants to order pie and chips....they may need more calories!