Or are they just greedy bastards?

Don’t see any offence taken in Anon’s post. They’ve simply pointed out how much Bol sauce you get from 1kg of mince, backed up by the objective measure of what recipes say. And they’re right.

Why on earth do you feel the need to bring their weight into it?

As for chastising people for how much they eat, the thread is literally OP chastising her own nearest and dearest for eating too much. Get a grip.

I’m not offended, just bemused! And if you could see how overweight I am you’d find the notion that I’m a competitive undereater hilarious too! (But I still couldn’t eat a litre of spag bol in one sitting)

I think it’s you who’s triggered 🤷‍♀️I was just using a good old bit of hyperbole to illustrate my point. Not sure why you imagine I’m ‘triggered’? You are the one policing everyone apparently. I’d describe my tone as ‘light-hearted exasperation’ whereas yours is more ‘po-faced’.

My brother did this once. I too cooked a kg of mince with the usual added bits to portion up

Told B there was a portion in the microwave just heat it up, and as usual never listens properly and I smelt the whole pan being reheated, came downstairs to a massive dent in the amount and he was eating a massive mound proclaiming "oh I like meat" . I was fucking furious as I was trying to save money making a few dinners. He had form for this shit so I never offered again

He used to look forlornly into any cooking pans stating he was hungry

assuming that the male members of the family will behave like normal human beings around it rather than like a python trying to swallow a whole cow

wow, food is really triggering for some folks. Taking such offence at what others eat. Must be fun at meal times round theirs.

Did they have it with pasta or just eat the sauce?

But in the real world, people are not agonising about how much protein is in 100g of mince; they’re just making a decent portion of a standard meal and assuming that the male members of the family will behave like normal human beings around it rather than like a python trying to swallow a whole cow.

I certainly don’t think OP needs to be messing around calculating the exact grams of protein needed by her greedy menfolk - and neither do most of the women who’ve reported on this thread; their husbands and sons are absolutely making sure they’re getting enough protein and then some!

Why are you taking such offense at how much others eat. ? I’m sure you’re a lovely weight, stick to your macros and measure everything, never ever over indulge, hence why yoh feel the need to go on line and chastise people for over eating.

theres a thread about an Indian takeaway, started yesterday. Why not pop over there and have a go at them too?

Literally every spag recipe is 1lb mince for four. 1Kg makes enough to half fill a 6 litre saucepan once you’ve put the rest of the ingredients in (unless yours is just mince and tomato sauce). I don’t know many people who’d eat a litre of bolognaise each, and we eat a lot!

I have not read the replies but just wanted to say this is an accolade to your wonderful cooking. In future if you do it again put yours and the batch for another day aside. in the freezer if possible. The men in my house can't find anything in there!😅

Why are you struggling with that poster’s maths?! It’s clear what they said. 😂

Words are indeed failing you. On every thread you’re haunting at the moment.

Stunned at these folks making 18-24 portions out of 1kg of mince. 🤪

😂

Good grief! I use 500g of mince for 6 of us, 2 adults 2 adult sized teens and 2 younger kids! I'd be raging if they ate all that and didn't leave me any!

But you also said he’d do this every time if you’re not there at dishing up…. that he’d eat everything there was in the pans/oven. That’s not a one off, that’s selfish pig behaviour.

Yes but lentils have way less protein than meat so you need to factor that in if you're feeding teens especially if they do sports.

It accounts for one meal though. You can bulk out bolognese with decent stuff and get plenty of protein elsewhere.

Bravo! 🤩 I love this level of pettiness! And the beauty of this is you can say “oh, they were starting to go stale, so I was trying to save them for you”.

1kg of mince feeds 5 of us twice and I have 3 DC (8-12)! I usually make 1kg and feed half and freeze half for another meal.. Awful of them to not have dished up for you and kept yours to one side.. Even if they had cooked it - they still should have kept yours to one side - I think it's even worse that it's a meal you prepared! I'd definitely sit them both down and have a chat about being so thoughtless and how it's made you feel.. it's these little things that add up.. sorry OP- I'd be very angry and upset.

Teens and adults need around 50g protein per day. Minced beef has around 14g per 100g. Those of you bulking it out might not be getting enough protein.

Jesus. Is he the Tiger Who Came to Tea? Does he drink all the water in the tap as well?

Seriously, that’s terrible.

@Ladymeade this is what the OP said

To be honest what they left for me was enough for me
It's more I was hoping it would feed 3 people tomorrow too!

Yeah, sorry. I posted before rtft, so didn't realise what I'd walked in to.

I can understand why it was confusing.

Also it sounds like bullshit, but we are really small eater. Very slender husband, menopausal short dieting wife, two tiny slender girls, one veggie.

I had no idea our portions were such outliers, but I do try to batch cook, and reduce our intake of red meat. So the mince is more like one of the flavourings than necessarily a full protein portion.

I'm making us sound like a bunch of frugal, healthy weirdos, maybe we are.

@Sweetpeasaremadeforbees OK, thanks both for clarifying. The maths makes sense now.
I'm still massively side-eyeing it, but fair enough.