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?

Could go a sausage now

Inspired by this thread, I've had a lovely hearty sausage and bean casserole. Baked beans, lentils, chick peas, peas, onions, butternut squash, mushrooms and a big dollop of buttery mash

That was with 3 sausages.
The DCs had the 2 sausages I expected too.

Big fat 'extra special' sausages. I would probably have 3, dc 2 between them (4yrs and 18 months). Dh would want 4. 1 is miserly 😦

1 sausage? MrBC would have been crawling out the door in hunger in search of more food. I normally cook all 6 from the packet. We'd have 2 with the meal each and MrBC would then snaffle the other 2 later in the evening as a man snack so they can join their friends

Brexit I can't decide whether you sound like someone with an eating disorder or a competitive under eater because you sound too smart to genuinely think one sausage is a huge portion of meat

You are all being very insensitive. BrexitSucks is clearly a Borrower. A single sausage to her family is a veritable hog roast 🐖

I never said 1 sausage was huge. I said 1 sausage was sufficient for most people, and that one lamb shank was huge (if pictures I found online are typical servings).

Anyway, it's just an opinion about something unimportant! I'm not trying to feed you lot.

Lamb shank has a lot of bone in it, and some connective tissue. Depending on size they can be a bit meagre, or adequate. I have not yet found one that's too big.

here we are

450g of which 25% is gravy and veg sauce, but the bone is a big proportion. You can just make out the thickness of it. And the thick end is a knee or something.

I agree with Brexit about the lamb shank. Back in the day, before lamb shank became trendy, I used to cook one as a roast dinner, carve all the meat off, and it would be enough for 2 adults and one child, with the rest of the usual roast dinner things.I don't recall ever having a whole shank put on my plate, or serving them up whole.

Noeff are you sure you're not confusing lamb shank with lamb shoulder?

The lamb shanks you get in the supermarkets (usually packaged in gravy) aren't anywhere near big enough to feed a whole family. 2 people at a push maybe.
They contain a lot of fat and sinew, so meat content is quite low.

3! Ds 1 who is 4 would eat 1. Ds2 who is 2 would eat 2!

Brexit 1 sausage???
You must be eating a lot during the day to feel full on 1 sausage.

Besides sausages are a treat, considering their fat and salt content. When we have a great we go all out. It's all or nothing in our family

*Treat not great

I don't do lamb shanks as there isn't enough meat on for us if we're having one each!

Mrskoala I have to agree, they're overpriced for the amount you get.

sarahsmum used to do both. This was a long time ago though when people were poorer and didn't use to eat as much meat. The other thing we used to cook as a roast dinner was breast of lamb.

Should have added, they didn't come in gravy either. We just roasted them and made our own gravy.

It depends whether the shank is from the front or back leg I think. A really big back one might serve two people with small appetites like me and my mum. But I usually choose the smaller ones so we can have one each because they look nicer on the plate. Then I struggle womanfully.

Two sausages for the original question, or possibly one and a half for me. I never know for sure because I cut them into chunks otherwise they look like dismembered penises bobbing in the stew.

Noeffingidea perhaps they were mutton shanks masquerading as lamb shanks.

My mother used to add oats to cottage pie to bulk out the mince. Sometimes she'd soak a slice of bread in gravy to fool us that she had meat, when we were poor.
So glad times have changed for most people.

I'm going to vouch for noeffingidea's memories of lamb shanks. A lamb is still a lamb until it's a year old. They're quite big, not those darling little things skipping through the daffodils.

Most sheep meat is sold as lamb. Except for at my butcher, but he's trendy or trad.

I remember breast of lamb being sold frozen in the supermarket noeffing. It came in a sandwich shape with the two rib cages halved and trimmed with the skin sides outside. My mum used to try to prise the packs open to see which was the meatiest. Ages spent bending over the open chest freezer in a t-shirt judging almost identical bits of meat was not the happiest way to spend a Saturday morning . I'm pretty sure I came close to hypothermia a few times.

Inspired to make a sausage casserole...

4 sausage (reasonable quality)
Two parsnips
Four potatoes
A leek
Two large carrots
Lentils
Kidney beans
White beans
Red and white onions
Flour

This will probably do dinner for me and DH and maybe a lunch portion.

Is this stingy?

did OP only describe one sausage lonely on a plate? I thought OP described some kind of mix of beans & sausages. I presumed there were very many beans compared to sausages rather than very small portions of the bean-saugage stuff. The recipes people have posted seem to have a lot of other ingredients.

I suppose I was imagining there were other things available, too. Maybe bread or other vegetables as accompanying dishes. And a pudding later. maybe I misunderstood.

I am also making a sausage casserole for dinner tonight in honour of this thread

Thanks limited. I think some people don't understand that people didn't always have big chunks of meat to eat. Just to give another example, I don't think many British people in the 60's and 70's would have steak, as in a whole sirloin or rump steak, on their plates. That would be an occassional restaurant meal, if you were lucky.
Perhaps that is where the OP's MIL is coming from, a time where meat was only a small part of the meal, and she hasn't caught up yet.