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?

I also like veg mash, potatoes carrot turnip all mashed together. Celeriac and potato. Sweet potato and potato are nice too but not with sausage. I'm just a veg fanatic

I buy the 97% meat sausages and a portion is 2. I would probably give growing boys 3 maybe 4 but wouldn’t give a massive amount of potatoes. 1/4 plate protein, 1/4 plate starch (potatoes) and half a plate veg.

There's been a disturbing lack of innuendo on this thread considering the word sausage has been mentioned 5000 times.

It seems big meaty ones are favoured. Nudge nudge.

That's more like it

@LAgeDeRaisin

DH is an olympic rower so has 27 but he has them while on the ergonometer.

I hope his broad manly shoulders give you butterflies.

If they didn't I'd LTB.

This thread has made me laugh as it's
reminded me of a post I saw recently on 'rate my plate', (photo attached) - although I did think at the time the quantity of sausages here was a little excessive!! 😅

I like a nice thick one

@LAgeDeRaisin

DH is an olympic rower so has 27 but he has them while on the ergonometer.

DD has 1 while she studies at Oxford (RG), tall and willowy. She's really popular too and volunteers teaching blind puppies to read. The puppies have 2.

DS17, athletic, has 1 blended into his protein shake.

I had a cocktail sausage at a birthday party when I was 9 and am still full. HUGE salad though.

As your DS is merely "athletic" and not "an exceptional sportsman who plays at county level", he is clearly destined to be a burden on the NHS as a result of his gluttony.

And I hope those blind puppies didn't come from a backyard breeder. Your DD could be unwittingly supporting the industry.

@Ddot

I like cabbage with sausage and mash. Cook it with onion and a stock cube. But I like mostly veg so would have one sausage, mash, peas and cabbage with mushroom gravy. Fella would have same but with two sausages and veg with a little mash because he is not a spud lover.

that sounds tasty and a good ensemble. it's wise to move towards using meat as a flavouring, mixed in with vegetables say, and thus reducing the quantity esp of processed meat eaten.

Before pregnancy me and dp would have 3 each out of a pack of 6 (400g) and homemade mash. Dp also has a tin of beans. While pregnant the sausages got upped to a pack each and hasn't been reduced. Baby's a year old now lol. We don't always eat it all though. Makes nice leftovers for lunch next day

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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.
I hope this is a joke?”

Yes i hoped she was joking about eating a whole entire forkful of mash too, people like this really should do more to support the nhs properly rather than clapping their bingo wings on their specially reinforced doorsteps

3, possibly 4 for husband.

3 for me.

2 each for 5 and 6 year olds.

How big is the sausage?????

@Incyra 8 inches I heard

[quote Blessex]@Incyra 8 inches I heard [/quote]
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2 sausages each for a 5 or 6 year old sounds a bit much.
wouldn't one be enough, with plenty of vegetables/salad/pasta.

If we are talking a big fat butchers sausage then that's different that a slim chipolata. Had the most delicious Spanish sausage from the butchers the other day, they were big and fat, one would have probably been enough. But a chipolata, maybe I could manage 3.

going back to OP, i don't think it is greedy, but i would be concerned about setting up unhealthy habits of excessive consumption of processed meat which is linked to cancer etc.

Just a fork full of mash for me.

@Incyra If we are talking a big fat butchers sausage then that's different that a slim chipolata. Had the most delicious Spanish sausage from the butchers the other day, they were big and fat, one would have probably been enough. But a chipolata, maybe I could manage 3.

ok I’m losing it now!

4? Wow that's a huge portion.
I have 2, DH has 3

@ClangingChimesofDoom

Yes lads! Fucking love a mumsnet food thread!

"Can't imagine 4 sausages" 😆

Not only can I imagine four sausages....my husband and I had four sausages each for dinner tonight. The teens and my dad also had four each. We had mash, but all find it a bit too much....unlike the sausages which are manna from heaven.