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Does anyone find Gousto portions to be small?

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cheesetriangles · 25/08/2023 18:19

Or are we just over eaters?! There was a recipe with chips the other night, and the potatoes included maybe gave us 7 chips each.

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Hiphopopotamus · 25/08/2023 18:22

Yes - though I’m claiming bingo from the first person to say ‘we’ve lost sight of what a proper portion size is’.

I think they’ve recently become smaller than they used to be - a way of cost cutting without massively putting up prices

AvengedQuince · 25/08/2023 18:22

I'd expect probably a 200g potato per person unless there was rice or bread or something else?

ItsNotRocketSalad · 25/08/2023 18:22

I last had a box about a year ago but found the portions very generous. There are two of us with good appetites and there were usually leftovers from the meals for 2.

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ReeseWitherfork · 25/08/2023 18:24

Some of the portions are huge and some of them are tiny. Been doing gousto for a while; they always send three potatoes for a 2 person meal but lately they’ve been quite small potatoes. I’m definitely getting more than 7 each out of them though.

ETA: never had leftovers though!

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cheesetriangles · 25/08/2023 18:25

Hiphopopotamus · 25/08/2023 18:22

Yes - though I’m claiming bingo from the first person to say ‘we’ve lost sight of what a proper portion size is’.

I think they’ve recently become smaller than they used to be - a way of cost cutting without massively putting up prices

Oh shit yeah maybe I shouldn’t have started this!! Hahaha

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icebearforpresident · 25/08/2023 18:26

Yes, we had about 8 deliveries of 4 meals for 4 and even if the kids didn’t have any DH and I would still be hungry. Great meals, I’ve stopped the deliveries but am making the recipes myself, but no where near enough of them.

I had Hello Fresh a few years ago and their portions were huge, we would all eat until full and have at least 1 portion left for a meal the next day.

LuckOfTheDrawer · 25/08/2023 18:28

We often get three portions out of them rather than two. But one or two recipes have had no carbs, and have needed to be padded out a bit.

Love Gousto, although we just buy our own ingredients to make the recipes now.

NoSquirrels · 25/08/2023 18:29

We haven’t had a box for a little while, but the 2-person boxes would usually generously serve me, teen who eats as much as me, and a preteen with a smaller appetite. I would sometimes add extra veg tho, or cook more rice etc if needed. We’d usually always have spuds in anyway so if the portion looked small I’d add some extra.

Radiodread · 25/08/2023 18:32

I think they vary hugely. Some are massive portions and others nowhere near enough. I also think some have got smaller recently -shrinkflation

AvengedQuince · 25/08/2023 18:32

I would expect normal portion sizes as it's home cooked food, even if it is chips. I wouldn't expect the same as what you would get from a takeaway or a pub meal I mean. So a medium potato worth each.

NotMyDayJob · 25/08/2023 18:34

It really depends, some of them particularly the rice ones seem very big, but some of the prep in five ones can be v small. Sometimes when a curry comes with a naan bread the curry itself isn't any bigger than the ones that come with a portion of rice and we have to make rice to go with it anyway

SausageAndEggSandwich · 25/08/2023 18:34

I used to find the potato based recipes included A LOT of potato and struggled to finish it. I don't think that's true these days and I would agree the portion sizes in general are smaller than they used to be.

Cowlover89 · 25/08/2023 18:36

icebearforpresident · 25/08/2023 18:26

Yes, we had about 8 deliveries of 4 meals for 4 and even if the kids didn’t have any DH and I would still be hungry. Great meals, I’ve stopped the deliveries but am making the recipes myself, but no where near enough of them.

I had Hello Fresh a few years ago and their portions were huge, we would all eat until full and have at least 1 portion left for a meal the next day.

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I thought hello fresh was a waste of money. Portions were too small!

Idratherbepaddleboarding · 25/08/2023 18:43

We rotate between Hello Fresh and Gousto when we get an offer but I’ve found that the portion sizes got a lot smaller when the COL crisis hit. There’s also less salad/ vegetables and they used to send things like ketchup and mayo if needed for the recipe but now you have to provide your own.

Beachwaves127 · 25/08/2023 18:54

Yes!! We always Chuck in an extra portion of veg to bulk it on and not add too much extra cost

Boymummyofone · 25/08/2023 19:05

We used to do Gusto a couple of years ago and I thought the portions were small (we were still starving afterwards), we went to Hello Fresh and the portion sizes were better but the quality of the ingredients were so poor we ended up stopping it altogether

bryceQ · 25/08/2023 19:08

Was just right for us. Definitely didn't have leftovers though

devildeepbluesea · 25/08/2023 19:08

Really small portions of protein with Gousto and Hello Fresh I found. They pad out the boxes with carbs.

PuppyMonkey · 25/08/2023 19:11

Don’t know what we’re doing wrong then because there’s four of us (DDs are 16 and 26 plus me and DP) and we often have leftovers. In fact I’ve eaten some leftover spag Bol tonight.

StillWantingADog · 25/08/2023 19:14

I find them to be fairly consistently spot on for me and dh.

hermioneee · 25/08/2023 19:23

We always go with the dishes from Gousto that include rice and pasta for this very reason! Same number of calories but some how a lot more filling.
I find that I tend to lose weight on the weeks we have Gousto - not a bad thing for me.

RuthW · 25/08/2023 19:23

ItsNotRocketSalad · 25/08/2023 18:22

I last had a box about a year ago but found the portions very generous. There are two of us with good appetites and there were usually leftovers from the meals for 2.

Agreed. We last had them a year ago and found that they served three most of the time.

We prefer Simply Cook now.

rougechaotic · 25/08/2023 19:23

We’ve tried most recipe boxes and use Mindful Chef. Gausto and Hello Fresh we found padded out meals with lots of carbs and the protein was minimal

hermioneee · 25/08/2023 19:26

Hello Fresh definitely pad out the meals with starchy carbs.

I am astonished by the people that have leftovers and can only assume they have snacks in between meals. A portion is only 600ish calories most of the time. I need the lot!

Potatooooooooo · 25/08/2023 19:29

I think the portions are just right and it helps me moderate as I am usually someone for bigger portions than I need. I always find there are plenty of chips too. We usually don’t manage all the chips and we are far from a family who manage to make a chicken last all week. I think I prefer Hello Fresh to Gousto.