The small plate was obvs mine, I fluffed it for the image by propping up the skin, but there’s about half as much there. I had to eat it in small bits over a while and didn’t eat any big mouthfuls.

Oh and it’s a spatchcock so it’s tiny any way.

It’s just my wife and I so I’ve adapted ways I cook.

I’m also 3 years post op.

It’s blood family that’s the problem

Strangers couldn’t care less, but for some reason, my all-overweight family believed if I didn’t have a plate overflowing with food I was doing it wrong/going to die/how do you not starve? My ex-wife has trained my son to say I eat like a bird.

So for my third Christmas post-op, my wife and I chose to stay in. And it was amazing!

The calories we need versus the calories consumed in a single meal is insane. And the fact that most people will have consumed in a single meal more than double the required daily calories for their output is a recipe for disaster.

Yes portion sizes have gotten bigger, but so has the food supply chain and the nature of work has changed. 120 years ago the majority of populations were doing manual labour as work, eating one maybe two meals a day that were often poor in nutrition. Then after a period of opulence and prosperity the world went into starvation mode so naturally the reaction of that is to teach your children “to eat as much as you can because you don’t know when your next meal will be coming” (a phrase still used by my grandmother in the 90’s). The way we got around has also changed from shanks pony to the private motor vehicle. Now days the majority of the workforce is doing jobs that require little physical output, most require long hours sitting at a computer or sitting in a vehicle. Warehouse positions are becoming more automated, traditional hard land labour is done by machines controlled by one farmer and a computer, even the shearing of sheep has had innovations to improve working conditions. Most people will have three meals a day, and unfortunately the better it is for you the more expensive is. People do not manage their time well enough or they are unable to afford any other option and opt to get fast food, or have lost the generational knowledge (or it wasn’t seen their place in the kitchen) of family cooking and rely on eating out.

Family’s were larger as well, going back just a couple of generations there are my grandparents and great-grandparents and further back were all large families with multiple siblings. They learnt to cook for that family then when they had their own they continued to cook in that fashion but while changing the behaviour of the number of children they had. All while teaching them Great Depression attitudes towards preserving food.

Wealth and opulence have long been tied to having an unbundance of food. The more ornate, rare or risky (The ortolan for example) the richer or higher status you were. It was socially unacceptable to throw a feast or party more ornate than a ruling monarchs unless hosting them.

Portion sizes are something that need to be shrunk over time but while capitalism rules and supply is there and if it’s taken away there will be demand (just look at the whole shrinkflation claims surrounding the Big Mac) again and companies will be forced to bow to the pressure of lost profits and introduce the item again, possible bigger and “better”

Roast spatchcock stuffed with sultanas, cranberries, almonds and wild rice with baked carrots and potato’s. Simple boiled green beans. The gravy is to smother everything in

Thanks! It was an amazing day and we had our traditional Boxing Day picnic indoors to start the watch of the Sydney to Hobart race. It was raining all weekend and last could days - all while stinking hot, a traditional Australian Christmas

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