To ask how many sausages for an adult portion

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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?

I'm now craving sausage casserole too. I'm sure I've got some nice chunky sausages in the freezer... I'm in the mood to have 3. (Short, healthy weight, built up a good appetite by camping, hill walking and finishing off with a run )

The DCs (4 & 6) will probably have two. They enjoyed their walking too

I'd be gutted if I had guests feeling hungry. I prefer to over cater with seconds available and save the left overs for another meal.

@Instasista, not piss-taking, , sorry! I never order meat as main course in a restaurant, though. Portion of meat is always stupidly huge and feck all else in comparison. Very disappointing, but I guess I'm in the minority among meat eaters. 1 medium sausage is a fair whack of meat, imho. Most people massively overeat everything, and especially calorie-dense foods, as we know.

Does sausage-bean casserole mean beans like baked beans? I feel queasy at the prospect. I like baked beans but would feel cheated if served them up as though they were something special.

Most people massively overeat everything, and especially calorie-dense foods, as we know.

Fair enough you don't like meat that much but but the competitive small portions is . Interestingly lean meat isn't that calorie dense (although OK sausages are).

And I would imagine they mean white beans, butter beans or kidney beans.

Or just carve one sausage up between all family members. Surely that's plenty!

Greedy Buggers!

Four chipolatas or two normal ones here. Ds(4) has one normal or two chipolatas. Dd (2) doesn't eat so she doesn't count :D

It depends what else is in it, doesn't it. We are supposed to be cutting down on meat for health and Eco reasons. So I use chorizo and extra smoked paprika for flavour, at least two kinds of beans and sweetcorn, peppers, onions and tomatoes. A quality sausage cut in chunks is plenty, with all that. We eat it with crusty bread, and I get asked to cook it. No complaints.

No need for sausage miserliness. It's not like we're talking ££££ wagu beef.

Wagyu beef that should have read.

I am alone in finding sausages gross?

All the bits that we would never buy, lips, anus, foot meat, head meat,fat, sinew, all legally called "meat", but not stuff I would eat.

Skerry, isn't it better that those bits get turned into sausages rather than wasted?

I'd say two is the absolute bare minimum for an adult, even if they're quite large.

2 for dinner with wedges and peas (his nibs would have 3), 1 for breakfast in a sausage sarnie (though I v rarely eat meat for breakfast, no sniggering at the back ....).
For a casserole I'd do two per person, sliced up, with plenty of veg and beans, and expect to have at least one helping left over for the freezer. I'd serve it with baked or mashed potatoes.

I'd probably eat 2-3 sausages, depending on how hungry I am.

Making Italian sausage and bean stew for dinner tomorrow. I got 16 sausages from the butchers yesterday (96% pork) and that is 3 for each of us (age 5 to 45) and 4 for the hollow legged teenager. They will be served with bean stew (around 200g pp) and savoy cabbage.

All the bits that we would never buy, lips, anus, foot meat, head meat,fat, sinew, all legally called "meat", but not stuff I would eat.

They're not all like that.

But they taste sooooo good. Arseholes and all.

Nose to tail eating is better than discarding half the carcass.

2 or 3 sausages if served with veg and potatoes (2 for me, 3 for the teenage boys). Probably 1-2 if in a casserole - probably a pack of 6 chopped up with beans, veg, tomato, so about 1.5 each.

It's totally misleading to say that sausages contain all the things mentioned above, a lot of which actually goes to waste not even pet food. Even a half decent sausage contains shoulder, belly and leg meat. The best guide is to make sure the sausage has a higher meat content than other fillers like rusk and to check it has natural casings not synthetic.

I would eat two and DH has three.

1 medium sausage is a fair whack of meat

I think uou know that's not true. Lamb shank, that's a fair whack of meat, one sausage is not a fair whack of meat in anyone's world,,and I'm sure you know that. 😂

Four. I love sausages

2, 3 if they were small.
My MIL tried to serve one of those individual Pieminister pies between 4 people today 😂😂 saddest thing I have ever seen. I made a load of toasties to supplement it and she wasn't happy!

Skerry. Yes, you are.

I had to google what is a lamb shank anyway. Part of the leg?
One typical portion looks like enough meat for 4-6 people, imho.

This is why I may as well tell people I am vegetarian, lol. They can't understand that a meat eater doesn't want huge portions, it seems!