How many sausages per person with bangers and mash? Are we a greedy family?

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Bangers and mash for dinner tonight (I'm having soup because I'm trying to lose weight) and I was wondering what a normal portion looks like to other people? DH and my 16 and 18yo sons will eat at least 4 sausages each with a big pile of mash/peas/gravy. They would eat more sausages if there were more available! I remember when I was a child we were given 2 sausages each, but then I remember being very hungry as a child and meals often weren't generous enough (cup a soup and two slices of dry bread as dinner for a 9yo, for example).

So - how many sausages?

We'd eat 4 easily. I'm trying to not have such big portions so have reduced it down to 2. Sometimes we have 3.

My husband will have 3, I have 2, 2 year old has 1. I'm not a big meat eater though. 4 sausages for growing teens sounds about right to me! Wouldn't give them any more though.

2 each. Dh and ds may eat 2 and a half or three. Never 4.

2 sausages each under 14 years old 3 sausages each over 14 years old.
Agree we would eat more if we could

Dh has 5 sometimes 6, Ds teen has 4. Dd age 3 has 2. I have 4.
And could easily eat more. Love bangers and mash.

Yeah 2 but preferably 3 for me

4 and I have 3 to be a martyr.

I have 1 or 2, DS (18) has 2 or 3, DH has 3 or 4

2 each. occasionally a half if there's a leftover.

I can't imagine giving 4!!

Two.

The 4 I think has evolved because we buy packets of 12 sausages and I don't eat them. If I opened a pack of 16 instead and cooked them all, they would fall on the spare sausages like starving wolves

Depends on the sausages. Big, good quality sausages, 2. Little cheap ones, easily 4.

I would have 6 tho it does depend on the sausage . I only eat Richmond sausages .

I also have portion contol issues. I serve way too much. Through fear of them being hungry after.

Four sausages? faints A forkful of potato and a lick of gravy would be enough to see me through the day. This is why we have an obesity crisis, think of the NHS, etc.

They are proper good fat sausages. I don't buy shit meat.

Depends on the sausages really cheap "pink" ones are not filling and full of crap. Really good quality ones 2 per adult 1 per littlies (mine are 5/3). So yes I'd say it was far too many per person if getting decent quality (90%+ meat). If cheap ones then if reconsider them.

DD (14) and I would have 2 or 3 sausages each dependant on hunger levels.
DS(13) would have 4 and like you say more if possible.
I often cook extra so there is cold sausages left for sandwiches the next day for lunch.

We had 4 each last night, I served 2 each but everyone went back for more, I think this cold weather makes you want to put a fat layer on 🤷‍♀️

We buy a pack of 8 usually for our family of 4. I'm starting to wonder if other people eat more now!

2 and we’re both fat! Possibly understand 3 for growing teenagers but really more veg before highly processed high fat meat. That could be well over 50% daily fat intake and 500+ cals. If they’re not overweight then it’s probably not a massive issue.

2 veggie (usually Quorn) sausages each here for me, DP and DS (13) with mash and lots of veg. We could all probably put away more but are used to 2 and it seems enough.

Two each for my dc who are 8 and 10, two or three for me depending on whether they are fat ones or chipolatas.

I have two (concious effort to watch my portion size), DS and ten3 boys have three, with any extras distributed amongst the teens.