How many people does one standard garlic baguette serve in your house?

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As a side with pasta dish.

Just that 🙂

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@WaxOnFeckOff I love seeing your posts on here and always find myself nodding to them, and this is one is the best of all Random assortment of different leftovers is food of the gods!

Aww shucks @cheeseandworcestershireontoast, that's made my day

Leftovers are indeed the best, another favourite is chopping up all the random bits of cold meat and chorizo and chicken etc and bunging it in pasta sauce - delicious! I've lazily recently started to buy bags of frozen chopped mushrooms and onions and peppers etc as it's not so easy to just pop out to the shops nowadays, it means that there are always things to add to leftovers to create something that you hadn't planned.

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Why the fuck should I stuff my family full of carbs, the country is groaning under clinically obese folk as it is. Hence there's no need to add a 'carby' dish to another in one meal. (Hate the word 'meal' but needs must). Unless tomatoes are ripe, they are pointless balls of sour water thus unedible. Olive oil should be the best one can afford, especially in salads, etc., Makes the dish. Or breaks it if nasty rancid stuff. I am clearly a wankery apologist and unashamed for it. Ha.

That is another one! You can't just eat carbs, you have to 'stuff yourself full' of them. Some Mumsnetters ascribe so much value and judgement to food, it entertains me no end.

Extra carbs are more for variety. They don’t have to be adding to the carb total. I mean, if you have garlic bread with your pizza, you’ll probably eat less pizza.
The horror around double carbs seems a bit excessive.

@WaxOnFeckOff
Sounds yum

No huge salad though??

in the days before my gastric band 1 person, now I can only eat the small crust at the end if that.

That is another one! You can't just eat carbs, you have to 'stuff yourself full' of them. Some Mumsnetters ascribe so much value and judgement to food, it entertains me no end.

Me too. The horror of carbs!
Although it reminds me of my mum who used to talk in a disdainful and superior tone about people loading their trollies with crisps, sweets and nuts at xmas when she was shopping. As a household we ate all of those things but she had bought them in separate trips and not overloaded her trolley so obviously that made them healthier

My DD would live off carbs given half the chance. However she is such a slow eater, we joke that the food has gone off by the time shes finished dinner. I'd never describe it as stuffing herself.

[quote Fizbosshoes]@WaxOnFeckOff
Sounds yum

No huge salad though??[/quote]
Oh my dear, salad isn't in season is it? Must ask cook.... :o

Chef has announced that spinach is very much in season though, could be happily substituted for summery leafy things.

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Chef has announced that spinach is very much in season though, could be happily substituted for summery leafy things.

Ah that's good then, big mumsnet salad it is! Hurrah!

Can feed multitudes, akin MN chicken and by the looks of it, MN garlic bread.
Marvellous stuff!

Maximum 4.

Realistically if fewer people are eating, the remaining garlic bread is still eaten.

Really everyone is going to have to weigh their pasta portions before the carbs debate can be settled...

I eat 250 gms of tortiglioni myself about once a fortnight. Baked with a lot of garlic tomato and mozzarella. On my own. I call it ‘massive pasta’.
I eat a little less weight spaghetti around once a week. Lots of Tom black olive and garlic.

It is exactly what I want and need and I’m hungry for it.
Not obese. Very much not obese.
No garlic bread with this ever.
In fact I may have a ‘massive pasta’ tonight - sounds perfect.

My DD would live off carbs given half the chance. However she is such a slow eater, we joke that the food has gone off by the time shes finished dinner. I'd never describe it as stuffing herself.

Slow eaters tend not to be fat.

We make one garlic baguette for the four of us, that is 2 adults and 2 children.

1! Actually I try not to eat them as they give me gip.

People who 'can't' eat a whole ONE slice of garlic bread really ought to fucking try

I've had bariatric surgery, had 85% of my stomach removed and I can STILL eat a slice of garlic bread (just the one mind)

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Can feed multitudes, akin MN chicken and by the looks of it, MN garlic bread. Marvellous stuff!

Yes, I've just updated my trolly for my supermarket order for the 3 adults in the house this week.

1 chicken
1 garlic bread
Big bag of spinach

That should cover us for the week surely?

If we get really hungry there is about 250g of pasta in a bag, that will do a couple of days.

As long as you don't serve the pasta with... wait for it.... garlic bread! Or the carb-police ( here represented by your humble servant, clearly ) will report you. To somebody.

Yes, I've just updated my trolly for my supermarket order for the 3 adults in the house this week.

1 chicken
1 garlic bread
Big bag of spinach

That should cover us for the week surely?

If we get really hungry there is about 250g of pasta in a bag, that will do a couple of days.

That's way too much food, you'll all be obese if you eat everything on that list. Try reducing your portion sizes, that much food should easily last you 2 weeks.

Reduce portion sizes and substitute a few meals for lentils 👍

:o Probably also too much meat, no-one needs more than a thumb sized piece of protein a day - oh wait is that a thumb sized piece of ginger? I'm too confused and I need to finalise my order and DH has asked me to add soup! greedy bastard

He mustn't have soup. Soup isn't a meal and snacks are a no-no, unless for a 6'5" strapping rugby playing son.