To think you don't need 4 eggs and 7 slices of ham to make an omelette for one person???

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This seems excessive to me... No-one needs that much in one omelette... Surely 2 eggs and 2 slices of ham would be fine?

The amount of salt and nitrates in 7 slices of ham is a heart attack waiting to happen, that's what would concern me most. 7 slices is gluttony, which is a distinctly unattractive trait in anyone.

3 eggs and probably 5 slices of ham, but maybe more I don't count.

But ham= DD2s junk waffer thin stuff. Clearly you wouldn't use 7 slices of naice ham.

I agree you need cheese.

DH hates omelettes, but 3 eggs for scramble

YANBU - that is quite greedy.

Please can the Op. clarify what type of ham it was?

That's nothing.i feed a family of four for a week on a single sliced boiled egg, with salad leaves I gather from the hedgerows and boiled dandelion roots........

Because that's exactly the same thing as giving a direct comparison of how i would use the same food

It's greedy if you're on such a tight budget that means someone else doing without a proper meal .

The person who isn't used to doing the shopping often has no clue. I have the same issue with my DP - I try to budget/use up leftovers/plan meals, while his instinct is to just open the fridge, go for the most delicious, expensive-looking thing, and eat as much of it as he feels like.

He doesn't mean to mess everything up and since I've made a fuss about it he will usually check first, luckily. But he has no concept of planing and budgeting with food. Left to his own devices, he will shop separately for every meal, buy whatever he likes and bin the leftovers

Re the OP, I think some (large/active) men well might need that much food, but he needs to be more sensible and make it partly bread etc.

3eggs here and prob 2 slices of ham chopped but def with cheese :)

I had a three egg omelette with 8 slices of wafer thin ham yesterday. It filled me up but I doubt one more egg would suddenly have made it OMG GREEDY GUTS would it?

Although I agree that if you're being thrifty then something else, less costly, would have filled him up as much.

3 eggs in my omelette if it's for my evening meal and I'm hungry. Also, mushrooms and cheese, it's got to have cheese.

4 eggs for a hungry bloke therefore isn't excessive. 7 slices of ham may be excessive unless it is the wafer thin variety.

Although, as you trying to stick to a budget, he would have been better having some toast with it.

If he really does need a lot of food then he should be choosing a breakfast that includes carbs - that would fill him up more effectively and probably reduce the need for a massive lunch.

If you're on a budget of course it's selfish for him to take all the food when there are other people in the house that need food as well!

*"That's nothing.i feed a family of four for a week on a single sliced boiled egg, with salad leaves I gather from the hedgerows and boiled dandelion roots........

Because that's exactly the same thing as giving a direct comparison of how i would use the same food"*

I'm sorry, PurplePiijin, I was being a smartarse.

Actuall,both thing which is outraging me about this thread is all this "h, me don't understand budgeting/eat whatever they feel like out of the fridge/don't realise how much things cost" stuff. WHY don't they? Are they not grown up human beings?????

To be fair, I often make a 10 egg omelette for DH and I to share. Wouldn't eat the ham though.

We are also proper fitness fanatics and as many people have said. Eggs are the cheapest sort of protein. Especially for us as I get them for free from my parents farm.

It would never occur to me that we're being greedy.

After a while you get fed up explaining the budget and trying to include them in 'stupid' things like meal planning.

"After a while you get fed up explaining the budget and trying to include them in 'stupid' things like meal planning."

Thereby giving yourself another child to look after? And allowing yet another man to bumble through life as a sort of half-adult, relying on women to service his needs and "incapable" of looking after his family.

4 eggs would cost 85p and the 7 slices of ham would be about 75p ,that's big eggs and thin sliced ham, in my house.
Nearer to £1.60 than £5.00 ,that's not such a huge cost ?quite a good cheapish , filling meal.

I agree Poppyhat.

Comparing that meal to a whole packet of jaffa cakes/box of chocolate rolls, is a bit meanlingless, financially and nutritonally, they are not comparable.

Breakfast?!!!

Less than that would be a main meal for DH and me.

7 slices of ham would be pretty much all of your recommended salt intake for a day!

Where on earth would the 7 slices of ham go? No way would they fit in the pan and no cheese??

Breakfast sometimes Is my main meal, I often don't have time during the day for other meals,
I am not a fan of ommlettes ,but always try to start my day with eggs and toast ,boiled poached or scrambled.then I might not eat again till the evening. It's a cheap breakfast. And filling .

What's that saying "breakfast like a king........ la la la.

Sorry can't remember the rest.

It was Moderatly thick ham (not waifer thin).

I am surprised people eat so many eggs in an omelette. And he did have some cheese also ( I assumed everyone had cheese and didn't even think to mention it!)

I hope you'll be telling him he has bollox'd up your meal plan and he needs to be more considerate later.

I could easily eat an omelette that big but if I was on a budget I wouldn't make it anything like that! I'd make a smaller one, no ham but padded out with cheese onion, tomato, maybe some pepper and have a slice of toast with it.

When I was at uni my housemate tried to make yorkshire pudding using 10 eggs. He assumed it was one egg per person.