Sounds good.
Just going to mention that when we eat out, we almost always bring half of our meals home to bring to work or heat up as a meal the next day.
Also, some people get around it by sharing one meal and/or ordering something like an app to share. We often see people here saying they like to order kids’ meals at Disney if they can.
I feel lIke, in the past, it used to be super expensive to eat out. But with grocery prices being so high today, I don’t feel that way as much as I used to, especially if we’re getting two or three meals out of it. We can order two chicken parm dinners from a local place and it generally feeds four of us, with some put away for later. Of course, we either make or buy a salad to go with it too, so it’s filling. That said, I have no doubt that there are plenty of people who eat the whole thing, and it is often really too much food, so agreeing with you on that, for sure.
I feel like one of the ways we got into restaurants having meals that were too big, was because they somehow had to justify the prices they were charging, so the portions got bigger. Initially. Now we’re getting somewhat smaller portions (thinking of Disney and some experiences we’ve had) with even higher prices. So they throw a big plate of food at you in order for customers to feel they’re getting their moneys worth. (American thinking, maybe.)
We stayed at a Residence Inn recently and got the free breakfast. The powdered eggs I couldn’t eat, but I had the hard boiled. I had oatmeal (not packaged) with a little brown sugar and raisins, yogurt (all they had was Yoplait), bananas, English muffins, and I tried the sausage - all on different days. It wasn’t bad. I’d also gone to the store to stock our fridge with some healthy snacks and drinks (and brought some from home, too) so we didn’t have to eat a lot of junk. I see more and more people doing this.
I really think it’s all about knowing what you’re supposed to eat, and how much. In general, we definitely eat too much! Look at the size of a muffin today compared to a muffin when we were growing up - it’s probably double in size. A serving size of a bagel is half, but no one eats half, they eat the whole one, often absolutely stuffed with cream cheese! A serving of meat should be about the size of a fist. And rice, 1/3 to 1/2 a cup. Again, relatively few eat that way anymore.