AIBU to wonder where ds puts it

[marriedandwreathedinholly]

Since Christmas Eve we have gone through the following or thereabouts and DS (17) has just piped up with "we haven't really had that much over Christmas have we". This has been between five - 3 adults and two pigs teenagers.

1200g smoked salmon
400g prawns
packet smoked mackerel
packet of pasta
two large bowls of salad
12 mince pies
1 x 2lb Xmas Pudding
1 Chocolate log
1 tin roses
1 loaf
1 large french stick
1 turkey (enough left over for a pie tomorrow)
2 packets of stuffing
24 pigs in blankets
veg
4lb (ish) spuds
all the trimmings
6 packets crisps
2 bags clementines
1 bunch grapes
1 block Emmenthal
1 jar pickles
1 jar chutney
12 bottles of J20
1 litre coke

i don't thinkt hat's that much for what is basically 5 adults

Not much there other than Christmas dinner and general grazing .

Even listed out in that way it doesn't sound an awful lot

And I'm a skinflint when it comes to buying extra food over Christmas...I refuse to buy too much and see it thrown away.

FFS count the calories!!

Sounds fine to me, but I have no splurged sounds fine to me, that is alot for 1 day

I have to agree with the others. Doesn't sound that much.

I'm a teacher and often take sixth formers on residential trips. Several times I've been pulled aside by a parent at a pre-trip meeting to warn me just how much their sons (it's always the sons!) will eat. I've learnt to buy much, much more bread than I would expect to get through and to leave it on the table for every meal so that they can fill up on that and don't go through the cupboards eating anything else that's vaguely edible

Teenage sons?

On Christmas day, my 10 y old DD packed away

A pain au chocolate
A bacon butty

A turkey dinner twice the size of mine.
Seconds.
A chocolate bar (that my parents thought was suitable to offer in lieu of Christmas pudding for the kids)

2 plates of buffet food
Pudding

(Then was heartily sick after much dancing and jumping around in the evening)

Then she was hungry and wanted some more pudding.

blissfulmisletoe that's for 3 days though! or 2 if the OP wasn't counting Christmas eve itself

There's nowhere near enough cheese on that list

doesnt sound that much to me

Send him round here married, the three of them DH and DDs Have had a tummy bug, I have half a turkey, big pot of soup, loads of pâté, oatcakes, clementines, home made mince pie, Xmas cake, cup cakes, two types of cookies, two boxes of biscuits, two puddings Xmas and chocolate, crisps, popcorn, rocky road, you name it and a huge chocolate cake arriving for DD1 s birthday tomorrow and

I am the only one eating.

I will be rolling back to work in January.

Oh god I forgot the cheese.

12 bottles of j20 and a litre of coke between 5 is hardly anything.Didn't they have anything else or was that just the diner drink?

Doesn't sound all that much given the numbers. We've (7 adults and one baby) eaten most of a turkey, half a ham, two large Christmas puddings and a cheesecake and that's without the vegetables and the nibbles. Oh, and the custard and the cream. We've seen off a tin of assorted crackers, umpteen breadsticks and four French loaves and 6 huge baked potatoes. We didn't even have Christmas dinner at home either.

But there would have been a mutiny in our family over the lack of cheese. Just today, 6 adults have put away two packets of Roquefort, a very large amount of Brie, half a large lump of Gorgonzola and a whacking great load of some other French stuff with mould blue bits in it. I could have opened a small cheese stall to be honest.

Well it doesn't sound like too much to me but we are greedy guts' in our house.
I suppose it depends. If you normally eat like mice as a family it may seem excessive.

That's way too much continental cheese, Pand. I implore you to include more English & Welsh cheese on your cheeseboard going forward. Unless you live in on the continent, that is. In which case, à votre santé

I didn't include the alcohol which largely has been for the adults although DS has had half a dozen beers and the odd glass of wine. We have had a large bottle of sherry (two thirds) 4 bottles of wine and two bottle of champagne.

I agree there hasn't been much cheese but there were so many presentation packs left in Waitrose on Saturday that I am hoping they will be mightily reduced tomorrow. I have also not included the bacon and egg sandiches ds had on christmas eve morning and this morning or the cream and brandy butter.

Perhaps we are not as piggy as I think we are. I don't each much and neither does MIL.

How much do you all weigh?

It's not just teenage boys. On Christmas Day DS, aged 2, ate:

• two Weetabix (one and a demand for seconds)
• a slice of toast
• at least three bites of my bacon sandwich
• a handful of goldfish crackers
• an apple and cheese based starter
• a toddler sized Christmas dinner
• two Yorkshire puddings (one mini one, he always gets the smallest one in the batch, and a massive one nicked off his Dad's plate)
• Christmas pudding and whipped cream
• a slice of strawberry cheesecake
• two Actimel drinks (my dad keeps giving him them)
• a Dairylea dunker
• two pigs in blankets minus the blanket which he peeled off
• a banana
• a plum
• a clementine
• and whatever else he sampled/was slipped by various relatives

He grazed virtually all day and I was wondering if he had hollow legs by the end of it. In comparison he has eaten barely anything today but did ask for more roast potatoes at tea time.

OMG - I shall never complain again.