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I'm noticing shrinking portions at restaurants lately....for instance...
I ordered a Sea Bass dish for $42 that came with 2 sides.
The $42 price for Sea Bass seemed in line to me (for non-coastal FLA), but the Sea Bass portion seemed small.
I'd like to see what others feel is the acceptable portion range for a Sea Bass dish, measured in ounces.
The server tld me its all pre-weighed, & she told e the weight, so I know what the weight of the fish they served me.
Have you purchased sea bass at the market recently? It’s outrageously expensive to buy and cook yourself. I bought some last month because I really do love it. It was like $29 a lb.
I notice it in general as well...smaller food portions, yet same or higher prices!
Entree-size salads are up to $20 these days at some places!
Yep. I go to a very humble establishment locally -- really a run down sports bar but they have always had good and reasonable food. My "go to" is a Greek Salad with 8 blackened grilled shrimp -- now up to $18. The taco salad shrunk in size and is now $16. It is kind of shocking.
With precious few exceptions--and you need to ask the restaurant if they are aware of the source of their sea bass--the correct portion size for sea bass would be 0 ounces and the correct price for a plate of sea bass would be $0. Most of it should be illegal as most species are threatened all the way up to critically endangered, depending on the species, and almost none of it is caught in an environmentally safe or sustainable way.
If your restaurant can't tell you the source, or the source is not green on the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch list, order something else next time.
Regardless, it's about time portion sizes shrunk. Americans have been eating outsized portions of everything since the 1980s and have the obesity to show for it.
Most Chilean sea bass sold in grocery stores now is farmed.
Have you purchased sea bass at the market recently? It’s outrageously expensive to buy and cook yourself. I bought some last month because I really do love it. It was like $29 a lb.
Whole Foods has it on sale from time to time for around $27-$28/lb. But who buys a whole pound,unless they're feeding a family? Enough for dinner for two would be a half pound: 4 oz per person, or 5,which would be 10 oz. For a special dinner item now and than, that's not too bad. People spend more on lamb chops.
To whom. It's silly to think everyone, of all ages and weights, eats the same amount of food. What's too much to one is not enough to another.
I'll say this. When I was 20's I went to Red Lobster with my gf and we were poor at the time and for us that was an expensive outing so when the plates came and the portions were skimpy, I was not happy. I figure if I'm paying a lot of money I'd darn sure better not be walking away still hungry and I'm not ordering two meals. I've never been back and I'm over age 60.
Maybe menu items need to have a small, medium, and large option with some general guidance like "small - typically for those under 140#" or "large - typically for those over 220#".
The calories and nutritional needs don't vary from adult to adult so much, unless one is an extreme athlete.
And in your scenario, the person 220# plus is the person really in need of the small portion.
Most Chilean sea bass sold in grocery stores now is farmed.
Sea bass, yes... Chilean sea bass (patagonian toothfish) is not farmed. Only recently (2020) has a team of researchers been able to breed them in captivity... and it's definitely not cost effective for mass production at this point... and it's unlikely it will ever be.
I paid $42 for halibut -- about 8 oz. no sides. It was delicious and I was satisfied with the portion size. In my area, fine dining restaurants charge additional for salads and sides. Halibut about $30/lb in the supermarket. Chilean Sea Bass is also about $30/lb.
Yes, we went out to eat about a month ago and my DIL ordered Halibut, it was $47.00 as we live in the South Central part of the US, and we were at that time shocked....she felt badly b/c it was a special and she didn't ask the price...but hey, it is what it is.
We don't get much seafood in this area...however once every few months a truck comes up from the Gulf and sits in a parking lot and they sell out....
Best we can do here is Cod....and shrimp...frozen lobsters....
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