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

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sadpapercourtesan · 10/02/2021 17:24

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?

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PattyPan · 12/02/2021 14:17

No wonder a serving size of sausages won’t fill you up if you’re only getting fibre from mashed potato. I can’t conceive of a dinner without veg, it’s just not complete! I’m the weirdo who always orders extra sides of veg at a restaurant Blush

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OldAndWornOut · 12/02/2021 16:30

Can I just clap for 1.5 sausages?
Worried if i clap for more i might get too full.

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@PurpleDaisies: proving the need for a sarcasm font...

cautiouscovidity · 12/02/2021 23:51

DC (11)- 1
DC (9) - 1
DH - 2.5
Me - 1.5

Lots of veg to fill up on.

Fluffmum · 13/02/2021 01:13

4 for adults 2 for kidsGrin

Rememberallball · 13/02/2021 04:53

2 chunky farmhouse sausages each here with 3 average sized potatoes mashed between us and 1/2 beans each; DTs (almost 18 months) will share 1-2 skinless sausages but will probably only eat 1/2 to 1 between them and the rest will be offered to the floor gods). The sausages come in packs of 8 so half used and 1/2 frozen for another day, while the children’s come from a multipack in the freezer. Neither of us feels the need to eat more than this but, if we wanted something else, we’d have something after dinner.

CornishPastyDownUnder · 13/02/2021 05:03

I'd have 4 sausages-the DC(teens)would go 3-4..but we like big meals too.

StealthRoast · 13/02/2021 06:13

Lol at the pp on page 2 who said their husband would struggle to eat 3 sausages!

DD (10) and I don’t eat meat but dp and ds ( almost 18 ) do. They have big appetites and would usually have 6 each. I only buy good ones. They would usually have them in a sausage casserole though. 2 sausages would be gone in 2 minutes.

blackheartsgirl · 13/02/2021 07:44

2 each here.

Normal portion of potato and a lot of veg, sometimes 1 Yorkshire pudding and an onion in the gravy.

Ex dil has 5, huge portion of mash and spoon of peas. Shes also 6 stone overweight

blackheartsgirl · 13/02/2021 07:49

13StealthRoast

Lol at the pp on page 2 who said their husband would struggle to eat 3 sausages!

Why lol.

My son is the same and he's 21. He's never been a big eater even as a kid. He prefers little and often as do i

He's also slim and active and healthy

cautiouscovidity · 13/02/2021 07:55

6 sausages per person! I'm beginning to see why we have an obesity crisis.

2 x Tesco finest sausages = 330kcal

6 x Tesco finest sausages = 990kcal

By the time you add some chips / mash and perhaps some beans or veg, that's well over 1000kcal - a heck of a lot of calories for one meal (excl. pudding) Confused.

smilingthroughgrittedteeth · 13/02/2021 08:01

Presuming they are decent quality fat sausages and not chipolatas then 2 sausages, big pile of mash and lots of veg

Gice · 13/02/2021 08:09

Oh I love these threads!
I’d have 2
Teenage son 3-4 (he once ate 12 at a bbq which makes me feel queasy)
Partner 4-6 depending how many are in the pack
5 yo 1 or 2
2 yo 1
Teenage daughter 3 veggie ones

TreadSoftlyOnMyDreams · 13/02/2021 08:51

@sadpapercourtesan

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?

Don't have teenage sons but DH would happily eat 6+ proper butchers sausages. He's a bottomless pit.
Housewife2010 · 13/02/2021 10:29

Does everyone open two or more packets of sausages for a family meal? We have the good quality chunky ones from Waitrose or M&S. I am the infamous poster who opens one pack for four of us, so we have 1.5 each. If there were 8 in a pack we'd all be happy to have two. We have them as part of a meal. We tend to have them in a sausage casserole (Delia's Sausage, apple & cider casserole is a favourite) so with vegetables, often pancetta and always lots of mashed potato. I'm very greedy but 1.5 thick good quality sausages as part as a meal doesn't seem like a hardship.

Lovemusic33 · 13/02/2021 10:42

@cautiouscovidity

6 sausages per person! I'm beginning to see why we have an obesity crisis.

2 x Tesco finest sausages = 330kcal

6 x Tesco finest sausages = 990kcal

By the time you add some chips / mash and perhaps some beans or veg, that's well over 1000kcal - a heck of a lot of calories for one meal (excl. pudding) Confused.

I agree, 5/6 sausages each is just crazy.

What do people do if they go to the chip shop for sausage and chips? We only ever order one small sausage with chips 🤔.

My kids will only eat Richmond sausages, luckily they now do a lack of 4 so they have 2 each (with mash and veg) and I don’t feel the need to eat any that are left, I tend to eat the low fat ‘Heck’ sausages but never have more than 2. I’m shocked at the amount some people eat, when your stomach is technically the size of your fist and I see photos of what people put on their plates (on Fb).

ElizaLaLa · 13/02/2021 11:19

I'd feel like there was something wrong with me if I cut sausages up to put half of one on an adults plate.

HideTanner · 13/02/2021 11:22

Me too. Putting half a sausage on an adult's plate feels very 'it's 1944 we've got to stretch bad boys as far as we can'.

ElizaLaLa · 13/02/2021 11:30

May as well go the whole hog and squeeze them out of their casings and make double the amount of smaller sausages (3/4's to go in the freezer for later though) 🙄

Exhausteddog · 13/02/2021 11:38

@ElizaLaLa
"Whole hog" GrinGrin

Housewife2010 · 13/02/2021 11:40

So do you all open two or more packets if sausages per family meal?

ElizaLaLa · 13/02/2021 12:13

@Housewife2010

So do you all open two or more packets if sausages per family meal?
I do sometimes if I want some for later or the dogs are going to have a couple.

2 adults, no kids.

itssquidstella · 13/02/2021 12:23

Three each. I could probably survive on two but I'm a bit greedy; DH definitely needs three!

Ilovebigmacs · 13/02/2021 12:34

@LowlandLucky

I would eat 2, DH is a builder and our 4 sons all have heavy manual jobs so they would happily eat half a dozen each but only get 4 each. The would have fruit crumble and custard afterwards. Come supper they would eat 3 0r 4 slices of cheese and toast and a pint of milk.
Manual jobs AND 4 sausages each? So they're a double strain on the NHS. I hope they don't do sport as well or they're a triple threat and basically causing the collapse of the NHS and possibly society as a whole.

I don't really know where I fit in on this thread because I rarely eat sausages, when I do I eat the recommended serving size - yet I'm overweight. However I haven't used the NHS since I was 7 years old.