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[Grog]

What do you guys do about the huge portions that we are served at food establishments?

I sometimes ask for half the fries, for example. I get funny looks, so usually I preface my request with: "I know I paid for more, but I would like to have just..." and usually they are understanding. I do that for coffee, too. If I give them my travel mug, they fill it all. No way I'll drink all of that.

I almost never go to Starbucks but once or twice a year I'll end up getting something there. I ask for a "short." It's not on the menu but you can get it, and it's actually programmed in their cash register, for nearly all drinks (except the frozen ones). It's - to me - a "normal size" coffee, about 8 oz.

[Biciclista]

I almost never go to Starbucks but once or twice a year I'll end up getting something there. I ask for a "short." It's not on the menu but you can get it, and it's actually programmed in their cash register, for nearly all drinks (except the frozen ones). It's - to me - a "normal size" coffee, about 8 oz.

haha, me too. They ask me what size and I say "small" and they say you want a grande (or whatever) and I say, no I want a small one!

[Zen]

I ordered a small ice cream from McDonalds.and was told they only have one size.

I pinched off the top half of Mr.Softee and dropped it in the gutter (drive thru)

[Flybye]

I ordered a small ice cream from McDonalds.and was told they only have one size.

I pinched off the top half of Mr.Softee and dropped it in the gutter (drive thru)

That is great - I can almost hear the thought process in your head "you SAY you don't have a small - WELL TAKE THAT!!!"

It isn't like they CAN'T stop the ice cream machine to make a small, it is that they WON'T.

[Biciclista]

and honestly, in this profit driven economy; why are they giving us such huge portions?!??!

[Aggie_Ama]

I love this local burger place, the owners are always there but since I started losing weight I have very little appetite. They only offer a huge burger and for the price ($9 for burger/fries/drink) I can't stand to throw away half the burger. They won't sell kids burgers to adults so we stopped going because DH eats too much too much to split and they aren't something I will eat re-heated. They lost regular customers over it.

If we go somewhere I always order a half or child's portion or get a to go box. I can't eat that much, I don't need that much and I don't like throwing away perfectly good food.

[OakLeaf]

I confess, I eat too much. So I'm not often in that situation. (But since my weight's stable and within 5# of what I'd like it to be, I don't stress about it too much.)

I don't eat fast food. And I don't do well with anything frozen, so melting ice cream isn't an issue. (Chinese medicine has an explanation for that, but I don't know the details.)

But, among non-frozen things, IMO if it's not good enough to take some of it home, it's not good enough to order in the first place. So it's only usually an issue when we're traveling and don't have a refrigerator or microwave in the room.

DH and I were eating "tapas" before tapas was fashionable. A salad each and three appetizers to share is usually plenty (more appetizers if we're not each getting a salad). Besides, even in the best restaurants, the chefs usually give more attention to appetizers than entrees. So we get the best they have to offer. In a chain restaurant, a salad bar plus an appetizer is plenty.

I did do exactly the same as you, Mimi, recently when I got some movie popcorn. I tend to snack mindlessly at the movies. I ordered a "small" popcorn, looking at the display bags, but it turned out that the size I wanted was "child." The "small" one I'd actually ordered and paid for was ginormous. So I made the worker pour half of it out.