Small, Medium or Large?

If you are offered a portion size? (Yes some of you will have watched the programme too)

What about coffee, the same question.

I look at the price and then if I could afford large I actually ask to see the container, then decide

small.

coffee I don't drink, I drink tea and I buy acording to how thirsty I am but don't always have milk never large, usually small or medium or a pot of tea.

If it's fruit, it's large. My failing is fruit.

Small.

depends on what it is & price.

No, I didn't see the programme.

Oddest manifestation of this I remember seeing was when I lived in the states, they had 3 different drinks sizes - but it was free refills. I always bought a small, why would you do anything else?

Helen Liz wrote (see)

depends on what it is & price.

No, I didn't see the programme.

Oddest manifestation of this I remember seeing was when I lived in the states, they had 3 different drinks sizes - but it was free refills. I always bought a small, why would you do anything else?

ha ha....

For me it tends to be on the smaller size especially with things like cappuccino. I swear my boss bought me a pint of it in Costa a while back.

This is the programme for anyone that missed it.

Usually depends on the actual size of the thing and what mood I'm in. I don't think I'd ever get a large in Starbucks for example, but might go for a large coffee in a cafe as it's not actually that big.  

And that breakfast was madness O_O

I watched it. I'm always wary of food portion sizes and this has helped me lose quite a bit of weight, but strangely I'd never considered drink sizes before......I will now !

I drink black tea and coffee (no sugar) so it makes very little difference to me if it's small medium or large. (And makes going to starbuck as bit of a waste of time)

I very rarely buy coffee, when I do it's a small.

In food, I'd ask how big was a small/medium - I'd base my choice on how big the portion was rather than the cost.   Large would almost certainly be too big for me.

Medium generally, but in some coffee places I will have small as they are still huge.

I would have the size appropriate for my requirements at that moment in time

(With out having to have the government or other nanny state telling me what I should do.  I didn't watch the program as I was happy sticking pins in my eyes after last weeks episode)

The first two programmes in that BBC2 series have been great. You start to realise the people who sell us food are enemies, not friends.

I object to the title "The men who made you fat" though. I'm sure one or two women have been involved too? 

The government should oblige supermarkets to sell us one of everything at the same price a multiple of anything works out at per item, rather than force us to buy 4/6/12/16/24packs because it's made cheaper to buy in bulk. (If you don't buy it, you won't eat it.)

Colin McLaughlin wrote (see)

 rather than force us to buy 4/6/12/16/24packs because it's made cheaper to buy in bulk. (If you don't buy it, you won't eat it.)

No one forces you to eat it.....................

Yeah, but if you have it at home, you eat it.

And if you go in a shop to buy one, you buy four.

So you end up eating four.

When all you wanted to do was buy one, but one was too expensive compared to four, so you bought four.

Supermarkets are forcing us to buy too much, following which we eat too much. Because it's there when we look in the cupboard.

e.g. I can't buy a packet of crisps, it's prohibitively expensive. I have to buy a pack of 6.

So I end up eating 5 more packets than I needed to. And quite quickly, probably.

Why can't I just buy one packet at crisps, at a sixth of the price of a six pack?

Because the supermarkets won't let me.