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?

Adult DS has just eaten 4 on a half baguette for lunch as they would otherwise have been out of date - he was doing us a favour and not wasting food really.

I tried to engage people with my toad in the hole but no one would bite ...

@Ilovebigmacs "I haven't used the NHS since I was 7 years old" - and you attribute this directly to your sausage policy?

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.

Does your username offer a hint....? 😂

[quote DishingOutDone]@Ilovebigmacs "I haven't used the NHS since I was 7 years old" - and you attribute this directly to your sausage policy? [/quote]
No. Some posters are telling people who eat 4 sausages they're a drain on the NHS, some are telling overweight people they're a drain on the NHS. I fit into one category and not the other. However I'm not a drain on the NHS because I used it when I was born and when I was 7 and not since. Therefore, as I said, I'm not sure where I fit in on this thread.

@SoupDragon

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.

Does your username offer a hint....? 😂

Definitely, I'd much rather have a big mac than sausages!

i'd made the sausages into meatballs and completely miss the point of the thread

Sausage balls sound neither appertising nor a complement.

I'm actually walking like this to avoid wearing holes on the legs at the top of my jeans.

@StealthRoast

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.

My husband would struggle to eat 3 sausages; he’s not a small bloke but doesn’t eat huge portions (for example, he only had 2 medium sized roast potatoes today)

16 sausages eaten tonight between four people - two adults, two children. With mash, veg, onion gravy. I am obviously not a proper MNer as nobody shared a sausage and everyone ate to their appetite.

They were bloody lovely.

My one and 3 year old eat 2 each,( neither eat much carbs though, just sausage and beans and ignore whatever form of potato i try!) I would probably eat 3, my OH easily 4.

We have sausage mash and beans. It depends on what else we have had that day. Ds will have 2. I'll have 2 and dh will have 3.
There's 8 per pack though and it seems silly keeping 1 so we cook them all and ds may have a little bit more and so will dh.
If we haven't eaten anything else (which dh and I usually only eat once a day in the evening) I'll have 3 and dh will have 4, so we open another pack anyway.