I can’t believe how many times I’ve eaten food from a restaurant in the last seven days! Five times! Five I say. That’s a lot.
Of course that’s unusual for us. The only reason we weren’t having home cooked meals over the last week was due to our family reunion. We kept meeting up in restaurants – what can I say!
Then last night, well … it was my birthday. I didn’t want to cook, and as I said in an earlier post my husband is NOT a cook. As much as I’m sure he would have loved to cook us a nice meal it wouldn’t have been a good one. So we ordered out.
A few months ago my husband discovered a very nice Italian restaurant in the area. I’m not really big on pasta dishes, but I must say the two times we’ve ordered meals from this restaurant I’ve been very happy with my meal. So – guess what I had for dinner last night? Yep, a very nice pasta dinner from our newly discovered restaurant. I had fusilli with Chicken. They include grilled peppers and eggplant in the pasta and it compliments it nicely. Chris had Fettuccine Alfredo, his favorite pasta dish. I swear he could eat that every day. We each ordered a slice of chocolate cake for desert, but we were too full and didn’t end up eating desert. We didn’t even touch the fantastic salad we’d ordered either.
In fact, we didn’t even finish our Pasta dishes. Are serving sizes getting even larger? I think every single restaurant meal I was served over the last week was far too large. I can’t eat a lot of food at one time because of my Crohn’s, but when Chris sets aside food for later or to take home in a doggy bag you know the serving was too large. Oh well, we’ll have some delicious leftovers for dinner tonight.
Have you found that most restaurant servings are far too big? Perhaps that’s how they justify the price they are charging?
Perhaps the servings should be in small or large options?
Servings are getting way too big at most moderately priced restaurants. Usually I justify going out to eat by arguing that I’m actually buying two meals — and sometimes the leftovers alone are two meals.
My partner has a dream of opening a vegetarian/vegan restaurant someday. I’ve already warned her that she needs to seriously consider portion size. How can a vegetarian restaurant be “healthy” if it’s encouraging you to overeat??
It’s so strange that you take your leftovers with you.
We do not do this at all in Europe.
Perhaps a new way of pricing might help:
– just pay for what you eat (weight before – weight after = price)
– or pay the full price and take your leftovers with you
Alfredo is my favorite, period. I’m drooling now. I wonder if I can get anyone to take me to Red Lobster tonight…I could do with some shrimp alfredo.
Portion sizes in the U.S. are insane! Most restaurants give you enough food for three people. My wife is Thai and when we go back to visit obviously we don’t cook, but the truth is that most Thai people (in Bangkok at least) rarely cook. And yet they are still thin. How do they do it? The portion sizes are normal! When we eat out in Bangkok we typically pay about 2.50 for lunch for BOTH OF US. There are no leftovers and no one goes away hungry. No wonder there is an obesity epidemic in the U.S.
Mmm, anything pasta sounds good to me. I just had the yummiest spicy garlic shrimp pasta last weekend … ah you got me drooling again, tricia LOL.