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Fleurdalys · 2024-08-08T16:21:18+00:00

Made a bolognaise pasta sauce type thing with 1 kg of minced beef steak. Onions, peppers and mushrooms added. Have come home from work and DH and DS 18 have polished the bloody lot off leaving me with a measly ladle full of sauce ( pasta was cooked separately for clarification) They are most of that too Twats

DancingPhantomsOnTheTerrace · 09/08/2024 23:31

@Thesecretingredientiscrime
Yes she means she gets 9 meals from 500g (3 meals times 3 nights), and the OP used 1kg, so that would be 18 meals.

Sweetpeasaremadeforbees · 09/08/2024 23:30

I think the PP means 3 meals tonight, 3 meals tomorrow and 3 meals frozen from 500g of mince so double that with a kg i.e. 18. I'd struggle to get 9 from 500g but everyone adds various amounts of other stuff which might bulk it out.

Thesecretingredientiscrime · 09/08/2024 23:23

anon666 · 09/08/2024 23:10

Um, one where 3x3 = 9. And 9x2 = 18.

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Alrighty then. How does that work? It's either nine or it's a bonkers claim of mince for 27 meals.
Three meals tonight = 3.
3 meals tomorrow = 3.
And three meals frozen = 3.

DominiqueBernard · 09/08/2024 23:20

We buy 400g steak mince and cook with 2 peppers, (tomato sauce and herbs) and with lasagne sheets and béchamel (500ml. milk) it makes 6 portions for DH, DD12, DD11 and me. So yes that's greedy, but the problem is that they left so little for you...so thoughtless.

BernardBlacksBreakfastWine · 09/08/2024 23:16

seriesoffortunateevents · 09/08/2024 21:19

I don’t get it really. On other threads we see folks writing they can eat a large pizza and a portion of Ben and jerrys. There’s a thread on a lone woman getting an Indian takeaway and folks are saying get curry, rice, chips AND naan, and on here 1kg is 8-12 portions and the men are greedy bastards.

Apparently mince and chicken feeds the 5000 but a box of six donuts is a single portion.

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It’s not really about the quantity- it’s about the selfishness. Plenty of other posters have joined in to regale us with stories about their ridiculously selfish menfolk as well. It’s really depressing. I’m pretty sure there hasn’t been one instance on this thread of a woman taking more than her fair share (happy to be corrected though).

anon666 · 09/08/2024 23:10

Thesecretingredientiscrime · 09/08/2024 22:54

What Mathematical land do you live in?

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Um, one where 3x3 = 9. And 9x2 = 18.

Thesecretingredientiscrime · 09/08/2024 22:54

anon666 · 09/08/2024 22:49

Omg I use 500g and that makes enough for at least three meals for three of us. One tonight, one in the fridge for tomorrow and one in the freezer for later.

So I would get 18 portions from that. 🤯

What Mathematical land do you live in?

anon666 · 09/08/2024 22:49

Omg I use 500g and that makes enough for at least three meals for three of us. One tonight, one in the fridge for tomorrow and one in the freezer for later.

So I would get 18 portions from that. 🤯

spikeandbuffy24 · 09/08/2024 22:41

@seriesoffortunateevents I think that's the difference between every day and occasional

Like tonight I have eaten a full (Aldi!) pizza
If I was getting a takeaway I would get enough for leftovers the next day so I got free delivery!

But I've I'm making cottage pie or lasagne I'm using 500g mince for 5 portions and it's not stingy. I have salad with the lasagne and extra veg with the cottage pie, plus you've got the onion and stuff in it plus pasta/potato

I batch cook a LOT and weigh everything to split it equally and each portion ends up being about 400-500g total so similar to a ready meal

Ladymeade · 09/08/2024 22:23

Growlybear83 · 09/08/2024 21:43

The OP said that the amount that had been left was enough for her, so she wasn't left with nothing to eat.

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Thought she said, a portion of sauce (measly ladle of sauce and no meat) and also implied there wasn't much pasta either?

Haffiana · 09/08/2024 22:10

newrubylane · 09/08/2024 19:18

The average adult needs 45g to 55g of protein per day.

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You need to educate yourself on the difference between meat and protein. They are not the same thing at all.

Greally · 09/08/2024 22:06

seriesoffortunateevents · 09/08/2024 21:19

I don’t get it really. On other threads we see folks writing they can eat a large pizza and a portion of Ben and jerrys. There’s a thread on a lone woman getting an Indian takeaway and folks are saying get curry, rice, chips AND naan, and on here 1kg is 8-12 portions and the men are greedy bastards.

Apparently mince and chicken feeds the 5000 but a box of six donuts is a single portion.

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Well there’s can and there’s should.

Can some people ridiculously overeat - yes. Should 2 people be eating 1kg meat plus pasta - no. Even if large and doing a physical job and I’m not a magic MN chicken believer.

Olympic athletes competing in endurance sports are barely eating that much per day.

Growlybear83 · 09/08/2024 21:43

Ladymeade · 09/08/2024 19:26

Selfish twats! What exactly did they think you were going to have for dinner?

The OP said that the amount that had been left was enough for her, so she wasn't left with nothing to eat.

Teateaandmoretea · 09/08/2024 21:27

seriesoffortunateevents · 09/08/2024 21:19

I don’t get it really. On other threads we see folks writing they can eat a large pizza and a portion of Ben and jerrys. There’s a thread on a lone woman getting an Indian takeaway and folks are saying get curry, rice, chips AND naan, and on here 1kg is 8-12 portions and the men are greedy bastards.

Apparently mince and chicken feeds the 5000 but a box of six donuts is a single portion.

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Eh? 😂😂

seriesoffortunateevents · 09/08/2024 21:19

Teateaandmoretea · 09/08/2024 19:03

Oh please.

500g feeds 4 adults. So the OP’s bloke is a ridiculous greedy fucker.

But mumsnet competitive under eating 🙄

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I don’t get it really. On other threads we see folks writing they can eat a large pizza and a portion of Ben and jerrys. There’s a thread on a lone woman getting an Indian takeaway and folks are saying get curry, rice, chips AND naan, and on here 1kg is 8-12 portions and the men are greedy bastards.

Apparently mince and chicken feeds the 5000 but a box of six donuts is a single portion.

Sweetpeasaremadeforbees · 09/08/2024 21:06

I don’t think that 1kg of mince for 8 is mumsnet land that’s normal.

500g for 12 otoh….

Yes I'd agree with that.

Teateaandmoretea · 09/08/2024 21:00

LouDeLou · 09/08/2024 19:41

8 people 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

my two teens’ll eat 750 on their own, one’s whip thin one’s “gym buff”

only in mumsnet imaginary land 🙄

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I don’t think that 1kg of mince for 8 is mumsnet land that’s normal.

500g for 12 otoh….

MorvernBlack · 09/08/2024 20:58

MellersSmellers · 09/08/2024 20:44

😂Ah, i love this thread! So funny to hear that behind every door there is the same kitchen drama going on!

Food causes more arguments in our house than anything else. I've always wondered if we aren't normal!

MorvernBlack · 09/08/2024 20:56

DezTheMoaner · 09/08/2024 19:15

I looked it up so the rest of you wouldn't have to. Jeff has just asked the waitress in the restaurant where's he's been eating regularly to marry him.

""'Jeff,' she says, 'I'm sorry you spoke. I like you as well as any of them, but there isn't a man in the world I'd ever marry, and there never will be. Do you know what a man is in my eye? He's a tomb. He's a sarcophagus for the interment of Beafsteakporkchopsliver'nbaconham- andeggs. He's that and nothing more. For two years I've watched men eat, eat, eat, until they represent nothing on earth to me but ruminant bipeds. They're absolutely nothing but something that goes in front of a knife and fork and plate at the table. They're fixed that way in my mind and memory. I've tried to overcome it, but I can't. I've heard girls rave about their sweethearts, but I never could understand it. A man and a sausage grinder and a pantry awake in me exactly the same sentiments. I went to a matinee once to see an actor the girls were crazy about. I got interested enough to wonder whether he liked his steak rare, medium, or well done, and his eggs over or straight up. That was all. No, Jeff; I'll marry no man and see him sit at the breakfast table and eat, and come back to dinner and eat, and happen in again at supper to eat, eat, eat.'

Long story short........ Reader, she married him.

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@DezTheMoaner Doing the Lord's work 😅

MellersSmellers · 09/08/2024 20:44

😂Ah, i love this thread! So funny to hear that behind every door there is the same kitchen drama going on!

Sweetpeasaremadeforbees · 09/08/2024 20:09

Well I'm glad I have a teenage DD rather than a son then! Cheap beef mince is about £6 a kg so I can't get my head round a meal for 3 that is supposed to be cheap costing £6 for the meat bit alone.

LouDeLou · 09/08/2024 19:44

Sharptonguedwoman · 09/08/2024 19:39

You ever fed a teenage lad?

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Obvs not 🤣

LouDeLou · 09/08/2024 19:44

The amount is not the issue, it’s that they didn’t dish you out some first.

not greedy, just inconsiderate 🤷‍♀️

LouDeLou · 09/08/2024 19:41

Anonym00se · 08/08/2024 17:23

I’d have words. 1kg of mince should be enough for 8 people. It’s greedy af of them not to keep you a decent portion. I’d be livid, especially after you made it.

8 people 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

my two teens’ll eat 750 on their own, one’s whip thin one’s “gym buff”

only in mumsnet imaginary land 🙄

juggleit · 09/08/2024 19:40

Fleurdalys · 08/08/2024 17:24

Probably 4 here with their voracious appetites
Fuming
Hope they get stomach ache

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😂