Or are they just greedy bastards?

Yanbu, that's really unreasonable.

For us, 1kg of mince mixed with veggies and sauce, etc, would generally make between 8 and 10 servings, served alongside pasta.

Even serving extra large portions, I'd get a minimum of 6 portions out of that.

Greedy and so so selfish! My dad used to do that to my mum. He'd then act all innocent and say "oh I thought you'd already had some".

My husband and son would not dare try that with me. I would hit the roof. I'm actually quite even tempered but being deprived of food I was looking forward to, no no no!

Seems like a huge quantity to me. You don't need more than 100g of beef per person. If you want to live a long healthy life that is...

Aww 🥺😁 I find this endearing for some insane reason. It's kind of sweet. He must have been ravenous. Really, a whole salmon though? Haha

And it's just so disrespectful to you when you've gone to the trouble of cooking it all and just leave you a measly ladle full.

It's the selfishness that's most galling. I'd be furious.

My husband and I are neither overweight nor particularly active. I'm not Italian, so I don't really give a toss how they prefer to eat their bolognaise and pasta.

Total greedy dustbins! I would expect that to cover 8 people
my son and DH will polish off everything if given a chance. Also fat knackered

Definitely greedy. Since they’ve eaten tomorrow’s dinner make sure you get yourself takeaway and let them fend for themselves.
Good move freezing the wraps.

Genuine Q - are people saying 500g feeds 2 and 1kg feeds 4 extremely active, or overweight?

As an aside, the authentic Italian way is to have a pretty small portion of the meat sauce, not drowning the pasta in it!

Of course they should, but bitter experience has proved that it's much simpler to be one step ahead when I've cooked several meals'-worth of food rather than have to find a last minute substitute for my planned meal.
I also shouldn't have to hide the chocolate, but a certain person has long forgotten the gut-rot he got for eating the FOUR-pack of chocolate bars that was in the kitchen cupboard , in the space of an afternoon, not leaving me even one tiny square of chocolate!

1kg of mince in our house would have about 1.5 kg of veg in it. Grated carrots, courgettes, tomatoes, onions etc. So if that's the case with you they'd have eaten a truly outrageous amount.

bought everyone a McDonald’s. I ate my chips but left my burger downstairs whilst I put my daughter to bed, came downstairs to find my ex had eaten it along with his. When I asked “why” he replied with “you wouldn’t have eaten it” erm, a chance to decide would have been nice.

He was a selfish fuck anyway. 🙄

Well they can welcome on the early onset of colon cancer if they carry that sort of level of red meat munching up.

It's pretty disgusting from so many angles.

No one needs half a kilo of beef.

https://www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/news-and-blogs/news/bowel-cancer-uk-urges-the-public-to-continue-to-limit-their-red-meat-intake/

Tell them they're eating veggies for the rest of the week and it's for their own health.

I'd open a couple of cans of cold beans and say there you go. If you're so hungry, you can eat those for 6 days now to help you stay healthy.

Sweet Jesus that does me and my husband 2 nights in a row dinner with a little bit left to freeze for my lunch in days going into office. I would be cracking up big time

I had to sense check quantities (as I've never used a recipe). BBC Good Good says 500g feeds 6, so a kilo should feed 12!

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/best-spaghetti-bolognese-recipe

Although they only allow 66g spaghetti per person, which feels very stingy indeed. We always have 75g pasta and I think we're on the smaller side of portion sizes, in general.

Ah bloody hell I fancy spag Bol or chilli now after this!

Just for balance 1kg of chilli would feed 4 of us one night and 3 would have burritos or similar the next day. 3 adults and 1 teen

You FROZE their wraps?!?

Yep - 500g would do that for bolognese here. I'd expect to freeze 4-5 2 person servings after the original meal. The portions are not enormous, but they are very intense in flavour, so they don't need to be. I stir the bolognese through cooked pasta rather than heaping it on top, so it's very much a sauce rather than a thing in its own right.

A bolognese would have a couple of onions, a few carrots, a tub of mushrooms, half a pack of bacon/lardons and plenty of tomatoes/wine in it, so the 500g mince goes a long way.

My husband and kids do the same with a bolognese or chilli con carne sauce. I think it something to do with lack of chewing and it can be quickly gulped down in very large quantities. If you had been dishing up no doubt they would have had more pasta /rice.

I have literally just caught my husband spooning chilli out the slow cooker straight into his mouth....

Well if this thread goes to show anything (apart from OP's DH and DS being greedy bastards) it has to be that some people must be having their bolognese like that value stuff from Tesco where it's all spaghetti and a few flecks of mince, whereas some others are probably having some pasta with their meat!

@Rosscameasdoody Yes of course I know what a kilo of mince looks like. I used 500g of mince last night to make a bolognese for two of us.

I suspect most children would know better. He reminds me of some of the spaniels I've had.

Over 2lb of mince cooked with veg and sauce, and served with pasta ? Seriously ? Do you know what a kilo of mince looks like ?

That's actually disgusting behaviour. How selfish and greedy of him. Not sure I could respect someone with such little impulse control. He sounds like a child.

That’s greedy of them and really mean to leave you with next to nothing.
I used to make a spaghetti bolognaise with 500g mince plus onions , mushrooms etc and that fed 2 adults , 2 teens and an older child !