Have serving sizes changed or do we eat less than recommended?
One regular Sunday, and husband decided to get lunch delivered. The reason behind this was to make use of a coupon that would expire in a couple of day. Yeah, I know, we base our decisions on some weird reasons. Anyway, back to coupon and food.
The question was what to order. It had to be from a specific food delivery app so at least the ordering platform was finalized. No hopping between apps. After a lot of consideration, the final decision was chicken biryani. Being a mix of rice and chicken there were likely chances that mother-in-law would also find is palatable. So, three servings of biryani ordered from a popular restaurant. After all, three servings should be enough for three people. Sounds logical? Of course.
Turns out that our estimates were wrong. We ended up finishing merely one and half plates between the three of us. And we were FULL!
Ordered food usually does not last beyond a day (I have observed and experienced this a couple of times) so we had to finish this the same day and so a normal Sunday turned out to be a Mission Biryani day. Husband and I ended up having the biryani for dinner as well. And DID we finish it?
This, however, made me wonder if people are really able to have so much food in one meal? To think of it, there have been multiple occasions when we have struggled to finish what we order. Are restaurants serving more or are we eating less? Thankfully, Google has answers for everything and some answers I got.
It so turns out that serving sizes have increased over the years. Browsed for some time and came across some facts.
No, I won’t recycle those facts here. The bottom line is that serving sizes have multiplied over the decades for multiple reasons. Result is that we are being served more food than we actually need and in the process our diet is going for a toss, which in turn means rising health concerns, and added medical expenses . . . it’s a rabbit’s hole.