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?

DH and DC1 (6) have 3 each, me and DC2 (3) have 2 each. We buy packs of ten so this works perfectly. I'm not sure what we will do when DC2 starts wanting more. I have only 2 for weight control reasons, not because I wouldn't like more.

Dh would easily eat 4, I’d have 3 ds (age 8) would have 2 and dd (age 5) would have 1. I buy the premium sausages Eg Asda Extra special so they’re quite fat.

The sausages with more meat in are more filling, we get those packs of 6 sausages from M&S that are 2 for £5 and I don't think I could manage 4 like DH does. We also get the frozen Richmond ones but they seem a lot smaller and much less filling.

I love these MN competitive orthorexia threads. Some amazingly unhealthy attitudes

I have 3 vegan if I have sausage and mash but it’s not my favourite meal tbh

Oh god! Who the fuck cares! Eat until you are full. Or less bored. Or replace sausages with vodka

As long as I can replace vodka with red wine, I am with you @ClangingChimesofDoom.

I have one, everyone else has 2. They are thick ones from a farm shop so pretty chunky. But 4 does sound like a lot 😂

@NuniaBeeswax

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.

Amen

I believe the manufacturers say two per portion of the largenones. DH can eat a whole pack

I am!
I'd pass out with so little sustenance.

I eat four, easily. And I'm borderline underweight avoiding to the NHS BMI calculator.

I'd have three

I buy a pack of 6 (premium thick) sausages and DH/DS will have 3 each along side a mound of buttered mash, Yorkshire puddings and homemade onion gravy (or I might do toad in the hole but the same quantities apply).

I'm not keen on meat sausages (though I do eat meat) do I'll cook myself 2 vegetarian ones from the freezer, same for DSD when she's with us as she prefers the veggie ones also.

That's ample for me and DSD but I strongly suspect if I bought and cooked 8 meat sausages they'd find room to fit them in (neither are overweight btw just exercise a lot)

4 adults here. In lockdown I usually cook 3 x 6 Sainsbury's Taste the Difference Cumberland. That usually means 2-3 each with mash and beans and leftovers for sausage sarnies for breakfast for two and/or fridge snacking

I would eat 2-3, DD would eat 1, DH would eat as many as I served him but usually 3-4. Never 5-6 that seems an absurd amount. Only buy good quality/high meat content ones. Can't stand Richmond/cheap ones, I'd rather go without.

I have two.
Husband has four.
14 year old daughter has two. (Sometimes had three when training, sport has stopped.)
17 year old daughter has three. (Sometimes had 4 when training, but COVID has slowed all sports right down.)

4

One sausage should be shared between the 4 of you.

I feel stingy now.

Had sausage, mash, mushrooms and baked beans this evening.
Dh, Dd (19) and I all had 2 sausages each.

I could t eat more than 2! Sometimes I only have one, both dc have 2 each and DH has 2, sometimes he will have 3 unless he is saving any leftover ones for work the next day.

3 for the teenage boys 16/17 and 2 for me. Would hanker for a third though most definitely but trying to be slim heading into menopause

I'd serve 4 to an adult.

Depends on the sausages, big meaty quality ones I’d do 2/3 per person, skinny ones 4

I have 2, DH has 3.

Local butchers does amazing Lincolnshire sausages and I buy 5 links every week and we always have a sausage and mash night. Never used to be so hooked on sausages, I think they put crack in them!

I only buy good quality sausages and DS has 3 or 4. I eat meatless ones and I can eat 3. DS will have potato but I dont, just lots of sweet potato or vegetables. I remember having 2 growing up.