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To ask how many sausages for an adult portion

293 replies

greathat · 29/04/2017 22:15

Went to MILs for dinner today. She's done a sausage and bean casserole :P We got one sausage each. When SIL asked if we were on rations MIL pointed out that beans were protein too.... I do 2-3 sausages for an adult depending on size and meat content. How many do you do?

OP posts:
HMWelsch · 30/04/2017 07:18

I didn't say stingy or imply it even.

I think a single sausage is stingy but 2 and up, depending on accompaniments isn't. 3-5 as an average seems right to me.

Trifleorbust · 30/04/2017 07:21

HMWelsch:

No, I know you didn't.

To be honest I just hate these threads where everyone tries to present their especially large appetite as being normal, and by implication, a smaller meal being stingy. If you cool a sausage and bean casserole, provided there is sufficient veg in there to make the meal substantial, it doesn't really matter how many sausages there are in it, surely?

helpmesusan · 30/04/2017 07:22

Not sure how many calories trifle, they don't have it written on the packet. They are not massive, not hugely fatty ( for a sausage) and DH is v active and eats like a horse!

Trifleorbust · 30/04/2017 07:28

helpmesusan

I'm not judging! But as you say he eats like a horse, it's obvious that his is a large appetite.

HMWelsch · 30/04/2017 07:31

Re. the casserole, very true. It's a really tasty meal, healthy and a good way of stretching the most expensive ingredient.

When you're talking about just frying them and having them with beans and chips then you obviously have more but this would be unhealthy to eat frequently.

The same could be said of 'how much beef is healthy / stingy' when you're talking about having either stew made with skirt with lots of root veg, compared to a huge t-bone with bearnaise and two kinds of spuds.

That's why I gave a range.

MrsKoala · 30/04/2017 07:32

We don't do casserole but DS1 (4) eats 3 fat sainsbury taste the difference sausages and dh would eat 4-5. I would eat 3-4.

If in a full English dh would eat 2-3 sausages and 3 rashers of bacon, 2 eggs, beans, mushrooms, 2 toast. I would have 1 sausage and 2 rashers of bacon. DS1 would have 3 sausage and 1 piece of toast for breakfast. (ds1 eats sausage for almost every meal - i buy them in bulk!)

skerrywind · 30/04/2017 07:36

Yuk, none, just the beans, sausages are nasty fatty gross things. No one eats them here. A way of making undesirable bits of meat look edible.

AwaywiththePixies27 · 30/04/2017 07:37

2 for kids. 3 for adults.

Gosh if I gave my DCs one sausage each for their tea there'd be a perfectly justified riot on my hands!

MyFavouriteName · 30/04/2017 07:37

2 in a casserole. Why is her casserole green though OP?

TrashPanda · 30/04/2017 07:41

I find these threads annoying too trifle for the complete opposite reason. People using words like oinky, greedy, right porker to describe people who eat anything more than sparrow-like portions. I get comments like that about how much I eat and by extension my weight all the time and I hate it.

PetalMettle · 30/04/2017 07:41

2 In a casserole with a couple of extras in case anyone wants - so for 4 people I'd do 10.
Was it with green beans? I initially assumed cannelini or butter beans

Instasista · 30/04/2017 07:42

"Yesterday 22:35 VerySadInside

Gosh, I'm suprised how many of you would eat 3 sausages as standard! I'd feel like a right porker if I did that grin"

Why? Are you a right porker? I never feel like a right porker, regardless of how much I eat. Its a shame you feel such pointless emotions around food.

I would eat 3 sausages. 1 or 2 with say, a cooked breakfast.

BeyondThePage · 30/04/2017 07:42

Depends entirely on the size of the sausage. Ours from the butcher - yes one would be plenty, Walls, from a packet, 3 small or 2 big.

Instasista · 30/04/2017 07:43

I don't find butchers any different to preumium supermarket size. The only ones noticeably smaller are
Those designed to be - like the thin Richmond ones.

BonnesVacances · 30/04/2017 07:50

DH, DS & I share a pack of 6 sausages, so 2 each. I did say once that people probably share a pack between 2 but we're happy to bulk out the meal with veg tbh.

HermioneJeanGranger · 30/04/2017 07:57

2 for me. I can manage 3 but I always feel uncomfortably full after.

DP would easily eat a pack on his own, but he's out working a physical job all day and needs the calories. Neither of us are close to overweight.

BarbaraofSeville · 30/04/2017 08:02

For a casserole with lots of beans and veg, a pack of six between 4 people would probably be about right, so a little stingy but not massively so, especially if they were decent high meat sausages.

Did she have to cater for people unexpectedly and did the best she could?

topcat2014 · 30/04/2017 08:02

Can't remember the last time I only had one sausage, so I must have been a small child.

2 usually here - with plenty other things on the plate.

GrumpyOldBag · 30/04/2017 08:03

I'm with your MIL!!

Sausage & bean casserole is how I bulk out a packet of sausages to feed more people.

In our house a normal packet of 6 sausages is shared between 3 people - so 2 each, with mash & 2 veg. (DH & 2 dc, I rarely eat meat).

But if I have an odd number of sausages I'll often make a casserole with kidney or cannelloni beans, onions, tinned tomatoes, smoked paprika, then I reckon 1 sausage per person is fine. But I always cut the sausages into chunks so it's harder to tell how much you're getting. It might be 4 sausages between 3 people ...

MaisyPops · 30/04/2017 08:06

2-3 depending on the dish and how hungry I am. 4-5 chipolatas.

1 sausage is just stingy.

Trifleorbust · 30/04/2017 08:11

TrashPanda

No-one should be called 'greedy' or a 'porker' for eating until they are full, even if they are fat. That is pejorative. But at the same time people seem to think nothing of insulting someone who has gone out of their way to feed them. I think that is just plain rude.

Notso · 30/04/2017 08:19

I only like thin chipolata sausages. In a casserole I pinch, twist and cut them to make them smaller. I usually do about 12 between 6 of us with plenty of white beans, peppers, onions, tinned tomatoes, paprika, stock and served with mashed or new potatoes. Although I cook mine separately as I only like them burnt well done, and they go a bit weird in casserole.

acornsandnuts · 30/04/2017 08:21

2-3 here.

But six each Shock Shock surely you must know that is not a normal portion.

maddiemookins16mum · 30/04/2017 08:24

Depends on the sausage. If I buy Tesco frozen ones (with waffles and beans), three per adult and 2 for DD. If i buy (usually) the fatter,, naicer, butchers ones which are more expensive then 2 each with mash and veg.
If I make a sausage surprise (basically sausage casserole), I'll use an 8 pack of semi naice ones and bulk it out with veg and lentils and will serve us three with a portion frozen for DP's work meals.
Toad in the hole, I'll use 6.

Socksey · 30/04/2017 08:50

I can't believe the number of people here putting different numbers for men and women.... seriously?
We would have a 1lb pack of 8 sausages between 3 of us.... so 3 each for DH and I and 2 for DS (8)