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

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As a side with pasta dish.

Just that 🙂

Depends if you're interested in portion control etc. Garlic bread is often a side for other carb heavy dishes and high calories meal, so I would limit it to 2-3 slices each. If you're having a pig out of a carb heavy main, plus chips, plus lots of garlic bread etc it might be very delicious if you like that kind of meal, but the calories are probably scary.

Definitely diminishing returns too. You really really enjoy the first slice and really enjoy the second, but by the third the pleasure is much less and it can be eating it just because it's there. In this house, DH woukd eat whatever quantity of garlic bread was there...he's happy with 2-3 slices but would happily eat a whole baguette. Lots of people are like this, so a bit of portion control in terms of how much is made and out out seems a good idea to me.....nothing wrong with the occasional pig out though.

2 or 3 here... if 3 of us we would generally have one, unless we were having soup for lunch the next day, then we would do 2. The spare bits (a middle bit each) get put on a tray in the oven the next day, loaded with cheese, baked til crisp and melty and go on top of soup (even a very unmumsnetty tin of heinz tomato soup ) deeeeelish....

Usually 2, but I've been known to eat a whole one to myself plus pasta. Sometimes you just need delicious carbs.

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One baguette serves the number of people that are there, so either 4 or 2. I always feel greedy having it between two but it’s not going to make for nice leftovers

We have 1 garlic baguette for a family of 5- 2 adults and 3 kids.
It’s a really unhealthy thing to eat and when you already have pasta on your plate even more so.

The answer to the question of what else other than pasta you would eat it with is obvious. STEAK.

We eat 1 standard baguette between 4. I make sure it is cut so there are 2 slices each (sometimes I have to halve a big slice!). We also have salad as a side with our pasta.

Oh and of the 4 that's 3 x adult size appetites (DS is 14) and one child size appetite.

3 but 2 of those are kids

We used to eat 2 baguettes between 3 but cut back because we were getting fat. Now we just get fat in other ways...

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Oh sorry, just saw you said with pasta - I wouldn’t have bread and pasta!

Oooh, live a little!

For those saying you chuck the ends or have left overs. Blitz them to make breadcrumbs for home made chicken nuggets, to top pasta bakes or to sprinkle on stuffed mushrooms, toasted, the breadcrumbs are also great sprinkled over pasta dishes or salads.

@Boltonb we may be pasta snobs (hence no garlic bread with it) but the garlic bread describe is actually one from my own not very snobbery and glaciery childhood, where we used to make a huge plate of the above. The alternative would have been a fresh yeast bread with mashed potatoes mixed into the dough.
While I understand that sourdough bread and good quality butter are today's foie gras brands of snobbery today, for me they were something we used to ate as normal staple. Mind you, at my Grandma's I even ate foie gras every summer without knowing I was a food snob because she was breeding ducks and geese for the family and fattened them up so we could fill our freezers. Also, fresh organic eggs with thick yellow, almost orange yolk, tomatoes which were allowed to ripen in the sun and were picked fresh, chicken soup made from chicken that was happily looking for worms that morning, not knowing it was going to be food at dinner time. Nothing idyllic about it, just a normal life of people living in the country. Made me appreciate my food and the different tastes though.

Who has one slice? The slices are piddling little things. We can easily eat a baguette between two of us - and frequently do.

1 between 3. We had this and pasta today for lunch as our main meal. I was dissapointed after weighing out the pasta portion. It seemed small!

We don’t eat it, we just smell it.

But, in all seriousness, surely you just put one on for a whoever is there, unless you have a large family then you do two?

If DS2 has come in out of the rain and cold after a days labouring like yesterday the answer is one!! I didn't get a look in with the garlic bread last night!!
To be fair he thought I'd put a few baguette's in!

[quote EerieSilence]@Boltonb we may be pasta snobs (hence no garlic bread with it) but the garlic bread describe is actually one from my own not very snobbery and glaciery childhood, where we used to make a huge plate of the above. The alternative would have been a fresh yeast bread with mashed potatoes mixed into the dough.
While I understand that sourdough bread and good quality butter are today's foie gras brands of snobbery today, for me they were something we used to ate as normal staple. Mind you, at my Grandma's I even ate foie gras every summer without knowing I was a food snob because she was breeding ducks and geese for the family and fattened them up so we could fill our freezers. Also, fresh organic eggs with thick yellow, almost orange yolk, tomatoes which were allowed to ripen in the sun and were picked fresh, chicken soup made from chicken that was happily looking for worms that morning, not knowing it was going to be food at dinner time. Nothing idyllic about it, just a normal life of people living in the country. Made me appreciate my food and the different tastes though.[/quote]
Good for you! It’s just a bit wanky though to tell people that they’re ruining their palates with god awful this and that isn’t it?

It’s a really unhealthy thing to eat and when you already have pasta on your plate even more so.

I agree. Much better to just eat a clove of garlic. All the taste, none of the carbs. Cheaper too.

2 but could easily eat one alone with pasta

Me and DP can get through one each, no shame here

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80, like the MN chicken