Increasing Portion Sizes in Society

This morning I received a recipe e newsletter and it had a great quickie slide show to show how much portion sizes have increased over the last 20 years. According to these people, our portion sizes have tripled!

Here's the link --

www.readyseteat.com/good-for-you.do#portioncontrol

My mom grew up in the 40's and 50's and she's said that when she would go out to eat -- there was seldom anything left for a doggy bag. Dinner out was served on one small what we would consider a "buffet" sized plate today. What a difference from today!

Portion sizes are out of control.  The sad thing is you talked about bringing home a doggie bag...I never brought home a doggie bag.  I would eat an appetizer and eat my whole meal.  I can't think of one time when I didn't finish my meal.  Now I look at the portion sizes and think "did I eat all of that, no wonder I was fat!!!"  I used to eat a whole medium pizza by myslef and now I can have 2 squares and I'm satisfied. ...and I actually think 2 small squares is 2 servings!!!     

After 2+ years I still measure out most of my foods.  I find if I don't... I serve myself a lot more than a serving.  I actually keep a set of measuring cups at work too. 

 

Good point! I am amazed at how my portion perception has changed since surgery. Often, for lunch I will eat tuna salad on 6 ka****riscuit style crackers. Before surgery I would've eaten at least twice as many crackers topped with tuna salad. A while back I was pouring the crackers out of the box and something like 12 or 13 spilled out onto my plate and my initial reaction was WHOA! THAT IS A LOT OF CRACKERS!!! I could never eat that!  Then I remember I often did. How cool is that? : )