Spag Bol - how much pasta?

[preponderings]

Cooking lunch. We have 1.5 L of bolognese (defrosting it, that's what got me wondering) and now iI'm cooking a 500g pack of spaghetti.
There are four of us.

How much pasta do you cook for a pasta and sauce meal? DS is 10. I assume over the next few years our consumption will have to increase...!

70 to 100 g per person depending on their needs is normal in our house, we are active and not over weight

Read the packet

3-4oz each so 14 ish oz which is about 400g I think

We are 2 adults, an 8 and 3 yo and I cook about 250g pasta for a meal. 150-170g between me & DH and 70-100g ish between the children I would estimate.

50g for children, 75g for adults, 100g for teenagers or adults with Hollow legs

Ive always just measured with my hand- about a 10p piece size bundle of dry spaghetti per person

There is no "portion size" on the packet. It gives nutritional info for 100g, tells me how to cook it and best before date. In several languages.

I used to cook half a pack when the DC were small, then it went up to 2/3 a pack, then 3/4 and then they (DH and DS) complained I was being stingy so I started cooking the whole pack. DD only ate the bolo today though and left most of the pasta. Might drop back to 3/4 the pack.

When it's me and the 2 DC, I cook shapes rather than spaghetti and do 5 handfuls.

500g and 1.5l of sauce between 2 adults and 2 children is huge

I cook 40g each.

Usually it's 75g per portion.

For me that's far too much so adjust for different appetites.

If you’re like me, enough to feed the entire village.

I do 75g for me, 90g for dp (which is what it says is a portion on packets usually) and 50g for DS who is 11. 500g between four of you with all that Bolognese is a ridiculous amount of food.

80g for me, dd12 and dh.
60g for ds6 and ds7
100g for ds14

1.5L of bolognese is a huge amount for 4 people surely?

For a pasta meal I always cook 200g, which feeds me, DH and DD who's nearly five.

It's 4 serving spoons of sauce each.

If you have a plastic pasta serving spoon the hole in the centre is dried portion measure.
Saw that on telly, you're welcome

I freeze 600g sauce for five of us. Depends how runny the sauce is what the relative weight is though.
I cook 500g pasta but that’s too much and I freeze a couple of child portions for non-potato-eating child for the days the rest of us are eating potatoes.

1.5kg of meat? Are you sure? I make spag Bol for 4 with a 500g pack of mince and that's not stingy portions. Oh and about 300g pasta between 4

She said 1.5l, not 1.5kg. I’m picturing a 1.5l coke bottle. Still seems massive.

I'd cook about half a pack for 4. 4 serving spoons is quite a lot? Try cutting it back slightly and see if anyone notices.

That seems big portions to me (and I love a big portion!). We use 500g packs of mince and they do at least four servings of bolognese, more like five, when bulked out with tomatoes, veg, etc. And between 75g-100g of dry spaghetti a person. And some cheese on top!

1.5 l of sauce not 1.5kg of meat.
I just bung in a bit and use leftovers for lunch. There's no way I'm gonna weigh out pasta for us each.

We always use 40g uncooked weight each for carbs - pasta, rice, couscous etc.

I do weigh pasta as I got fed up of doing too much and know 100g is now the right amount for DH and I.