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To wonder how people eat all the cakes in these blhh

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WittiestUsernameEver · 28/04/2024 10:32

So I love to watch baking videos and whatnot. They're always making like 2 dozen massive muffins or 20 cookies or whatever.

When do these all get eaten?? Am I missing something? If I make 12 muffins, we (family of 3) will take maybe a week to eat them, maybe more. They often get frozen and used up eventually. But I always get the impression that we're "slow".

How long would 12 cookies, the size you might get in bakery supermarket last your family?

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Chocolatebrownieyum · 28/04/2024 18:55

My son likes to bake. We're obviously a load of piggies because we NEVER have trouble eating up what he bakes. A big batch of hone made cookies disappear within a day or two in this house! (There are 5 of us tho)

Lwrenn · 28/04/2024 18:51

BlueLimeRun · 28/04/2024 18:49

Seriously??

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Of course, this is mumsnet.
There are children on here harvesting their fruit to make homemade hooch on the radiators to combat the boredom of a single chicken that makes 14 square meals a week.

Waitingfordoggo · 28/04/2024 18:51

ComeAlongPeggy · 28/04/2024 18:47

I can’t believe people actually make muffins and cookies at home. Obviously they’ll be marginally better than shop bought but it really isn’t a good idea to give children ideas about eating so much sugar in one snack. My dc are more than satisfied with kale chips, carrot sticks and cucumber. Once a week we have berries - not more often because they’re full of sugar!

If your homebaked goodies are only ‘marginally’ better than shop bought, you’re doing it wrong 😏

Beeebabababom · 28/04/2024 18:50

We all would have a slice of muffin for pudding every other night. The alternate night we would have 3 crumbs of a biscuit each.

BlueLimeRun · 28/04/2024 18:49

ComeAlongPeggy · 28/04/2024 18:47

I can’t believe people actually make muffins and cookies at home. Obviously they’ll be marginally better than shop bought but it really isn’t a good idea to give children ideas about eating so much sugar in one snack. My dc are more than satisfied with kale chips, carrot sticks and cucumber. Once a week we have berries - not more often because they’re full of sugar!

Seriously??

BlueLimeRun · 28/04/2024 18:48

I could eat a box ot chocolate fingers on one sitting - easily.

The M&S bakery cookies are really sweet though - I only eat half of one of those.

Lwrenn · 28/04/2024 18:48

Brownies, blondies, traybake stuff takes 3 days at most, they have cleared 16 brownies in a day, but they were really good in my greedy wee fuckers defence.

Cakes or biscuits which I'm absolutely awful at baking, or my scones which I believe would be as equally as effective as trident as a safety measure, I have to bribe my kids to eat.
Sometimes even cold hard cash still gets a no.

ComeAlongPeggy · 28/04/2024 18:47

I can’t believe people actually make muffins and cookies at home. Obviously they’ll be marginally better than shop bought but it really isn’t a good idea to give children ideas about eating so much sugar in one snack. My dc are more than satisfied with kale chips, carrot sticks and cucumber. Once a week we have berries - not more often because they’re full of sugar!

pelotonaddiction · 28/04/2024 18:41

Gettingbysomehow · 28/04/2024 11:13

Seriously though if you go into a supermarket as a single person now DS has left home you cannot buy just one biscuit or one muffin. Not round here anyway.
They are always in packs of 4. This is the problem.
I did at one point get into making mug cakes for one in the microwave but microwaved cake always felt like a huge dissapointment.

I usually get
Morrisons cream and jam muffins (pack of 2)
Aldi lemon curd iced buns (pack of 2)
Or custard slices

TheCatIsInCharge · 28/04/2024 18:39

chaticat · 28/04/2024 10:35

Is this like the mumsnet chicken where we all brag how long it takes us to eat cookies?

Right?!
My kids hoover up all baked goods in 1-2 days. I have to hide them!

soupfiend · 28/04/2024 18:27

My OH can eat a whole pack of Tunnocks in 2 days. I used to be able to. I would have had a couple of the Tunnocks but clearly they are all gone.

Dewdilly · 28/04/2024 18:25

They’d be gone in a couple of days. There are four of us.

Hoppinggreen · 28/04/2024 18:20

I enjoy baking (although I am not great at it). I usually make around 15 cookies a time or 20 buns.
The 4 of us eat them but I do also seem to be baking for a large part of Y10 at my sons school.

rmc2001 · 28/04/2024 18:18

Whenever I bake I usually take the majority into work for people to help themselves to. The rest get hoovered up pretty fast by my sporty housemates.

JaninaDuszejko · 28/04/2024 18:11

There are 3 teenagers in this house. I bake cookies when they have friends round so a round (say 15 large cookie size) would rarely last till bedtime. Do I win?

catmothertes1 · 28/04/2024 18:00

chaticat · 28/04/2024 10:35

Is this like the mumsnet chicken where we all brag how long it takes us to eat cookies?

You've got to love those posts!

Waitingfordoggo · 28/04/2024 17:56

Misplacedtheplot · 28/04/2024 17:27

If I bake anything, both DC will have a slice/piece/whatever as a snack when they get in from school, then another as pudding after dinner. Then in the next day's packed lunch. If either of them brings a friend home then they'd get a slice, too. 2-3 days here.

DC1 is a teenage boy. He'd eat a whole batch in an evening and be looking for more given the chance. The other day, he bought an extra sandwich at school because he'd had most of his packed lunch at morning break. He then polished off two bagels as an after-school "snack".

So relatable. My 16 year-old DS quite often has two dinners. A pizza from the freezer is an after-school snack (or a late night snack). I’m going to be so rich when he’s moved out 😂

PinkyFlamingo · 28/04/2024 17:36

The competitive under eating on this thread is hilarious.

Misplacedtheplot · 28/04/2024 17:27

If I bake anything, both DC will have a slice/piece/whatever as a snack when they get in from school, then another as pudding after dinner. Then in the next day's packed lunch. If either of them brings a friend home then they'd get a slice, too. 2-3 days here.

DC1 is a teenage boy. He'd eat a whole batch in an evening and be looking for more given the chance. The other day, he bought an extra sandwich at school because he'd had most of his packed lunch at morning break. He then polished off two bagels as an after-school "snack".

TeaGinandFags · 28/04/2024 17:15

It is an immutable law of the universe that home baked goodies disappear at midnight - assuming that they last that long.

I'm surprised you're even asking!

KohlaParasaurus · 28/04/2024 17:10

When we had children at home (mine, DH's, and often a guest or two) cakes and biscuits disappeared almost as soon as they came out of the oven. I don't bother baking much now because DH and I would rather treat ourselves to a cake when we go out for coffee. My adult son is a prolific baker. He lives alone, and his solution is to take his cakes and biscuits to work, to his college classes, and to his various hobby groups. Charity sales and coffee mornings also benefit. Nothing gets left to go stale or mouldy.

Okayden · 28/04/2024 17:00

How long does it take you to eat a garden plant?
🤣🤣🤣

stayathomer · 28/04/2024 16:56

We eat them but there’s six of us and most things bake about 12

melmos · 28/04/2024 16:56

I've yet to finish my birthday cake from my 21st - I'm 35 final slice is tomorrow! 🥳

Lanawashington · 28/04/2024 16:56

What’s blhh? In the title? I can’t figure it out

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