Or are they just greedy bastards?

No question about it. They are greedy buggers - and selfish too not to have asked whether it was needed for you or for other meals

The aubergines growing in our garden will soon be ready, I might try that then.

My DH does stuff like this. We can't have meals where you help yourself from serving bowls, as he will take more than his share. Plus I will cook extra, so I have a meal sorted for another day and then find he's gone back for seconds and polished it all off.
He is morbidly obese, before anyone suggests he's being deprived.

40g of mince each per meal?

Finely chopped mushrooms or aubergines work well. Add some fresh tomatoes and a good glug of red wine.

What veg do you use apart from carrots, celery, onions and lentils out of interest?

Virtually a kilo of meat between two of them?? Bloody hell! What a pair of pigs!

Not the point, I know, but next time you make bol, OP, stretch the mince with red lentils and plenty of finely chopped veg.

I completely agree!

I would hate to get home from work expecting a decent meal, only to find out someone had eaten most of it.

It’s one thing to have a big appetite but it’s just plain greedy to not leave enough for the other person.

It is indeed. I was thinking more of some of the people commenting though.

This reminds me of when I met my husband. He used to go to a farm shop who did a deal on buying 5lbs of mince. He used to cook all 5lbs into a bolognaise, then he'd get a grand total of 5 servings out of it all. For himself.

I remember being horrifed! He was shocked to hear that eating 1lb of mince in one meal for one person was not normal.

I made him my bolognaise with 1lb of mince, I served, we had a portion each together, then I portioned the leftovers into 3 spare tubs for the freezer. His mind was blown.

He now makes his mince go further...

True but OP has said it had onion, mushrooms and peppers ?I think) so assume slightly bulked out with veg, and it was 2 people with manual jobs.

Even with that info. almost 1kg of meat (excluding veg and pasta) is a HUGE volume to eat by almost all standards.

I would use 1 kg mince, couple of onions, 4 - 5 grated cartots, punnet of mushrooms and that would make 4 big tubs. Each tub feeding 2 adults and 2 kids. Eaten with pasta and salad that's more than enough meat per person. If I wanted to make it go further I'd either add red lentils to the bolegnese or add peppers, sweetcorn, mixed beans and spaces to make chilli.

Please don’t cook for them tomorrow. When they ask where dinner is point out they ate it. You cooked enough for tonight and tomorrow so you wouldn’t have to cook two days running. Therefore they can provide Friday’s dinner.

Are the people eating these quantities very overweight or very tall out of curiosity? I had an ex who was very tall and ate very large amounts because he needed to.

Comparing how many people 500 grams of mince would feed is really irrelevant.

I can cook 500 grams and it will be enough for 3 hungry adults or teenagers. Or I can batch cook and bulk it out with carrots, lots of chopped vegetables and chopped tomatoes etc and it will feed many more.

It’s impossible to compare. Does your family consist of hungry teenagers and people who burn calories at work or is it elderly people not eating much or people working from home or sitting still most of the day,

I live with my parents and in my house we eat such tiny portions it's really hard to imagine this. Tbh too small for me but I still wouldn't help myself to more. My mum does all the cooking and me and my dad would never dream of helping ourselves to what she'd prepared without asking or saving her any! We're usually quite generous with each other I.e. always insisting someone else has the last piece.

I remember my boyfriend at uni sometimes eating all my food though and being so angry especially as I didn't have a car or much money so was really upsetting 😭. He was a nice person generally but just a bit oblivious at times. And he was 18.

Why are some DH's so selfish?? Can't imagine marrying someone that thoughtless.

That would also cover 8 generous portions in my house. That is seriously greedy and seriously selfish.

Glad someone said it.

To be clear, I think the DH and DS are out of order for not leaving OP enough but I use 750g of mince for chilli or bolognaise and that feeds 2 adults & 2 kids (9 & 6) for dinner and possibly one portion left for DH lunch the next day. Definitely not near the levels that other posters are claiming

Sorry OP, but they’re greedy and selfish! I wouldn’t be cooking for them again if I could avoid it.

What ages are you all? Also it depends on how much you bulk it out with tomatoes, carrots etc

I’d be raging at how little they left for you. I hope you have serious words.

How is that sweet? It just seems greedy at best.

Crosspost.

Well I live alone so I can laugh or find it sweet. Yes, if it happened to me I'd be raging- that's kind of why I choose to live alone, though!

Yeah. I'd love to see you cooing about how 'sweet' it was if it had been your whole side of freshly cooked salmon.

Sorry but the idea of someone eating a whole salmon while their other half was in the shower is killing me. I'm crying with laughter 😂