One Micro Rice Should Feed Two Adults

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One packet of microwave rice, when served as a side to, say, chilli or curry, should serve two adults.

Your votes, please.

Shall I be the first to say YABVU to use micro packs of rice?

How big is a packet of microwave rice?

Sorry but I think it depends entirely on the adults.

My weightlifting, martial arts, marathon-running DH eats 100g (pre-cooking) rice as a side. He weighs 71kg.

My portions tend to be half of DH's.

I don't really use microwave rice, but one pack would not be enough for 2 adults here. I would split 2 packs between the 3 of us.

But micro-rice is soooo easy... I empty the packet into a pan with a splosh of soy sauce so it steams as it heats up, rather than microwave it.

I think noticing the 'two servings per pack' was the first indication that my typical idea of servings was way too big. Now, I don't eat rice, so Mr Twiglets gets the whole pack to himself.

So... YAB a bit U, but I understand where you're coming from

We must be really greedy then because if we have it with curry or sweet and sour we have a packet each, although to be fair we the majority of the time it gets shared with a 3 year old too.

Definitely 1.5 packs for 2 adults

It should actually feed 6 with some left over for the family dog. This is why there's an obesity crisis.

Microwave rice is disgusting. I'd imagine it's one per person though

One pack isn’t enough for two but a bit too much for one IMO

I find 3/4 of one is perfect (awkwardly!) and even my skinny 7 yo DS will eat well over half when he's hungry after school. I guess it depends how much chilli/curry or other sides you have with it though. I'm size 8 and don't have a huge appetite generally. It also depends on how much other stuff you eat during the day so I don't think you can make absolute rules about it. I don't tend to snack between meals so by the time it gets to dinner (7/8 pm) I haven't eaten for potentially 6+ hours.

A pack of microwave rice is 250 g cooked weight.

Don’t eat it generally, but half a pack for a main meal would leave me hungry.

One would be too much for me but half would be too little.

I'd give dh a whole one.

When I cook rice I weigh out 125grams dry weight for him.

It's almost as though adults have differing appetites, isn't it?

Like I said on the other thread, it's not intended as the only side. You'd have something bready with curry, or tortillas with chilli, so you'd only want a small portion of rice, to leave room for the other things.

If it's your only side, I agree with the PPs who say that half a pack isn't enough, but a whole one is too much.

One of quick camping meals is one of the flavoured packs (like the Mexican) with some chicken, peppers and tinned veg, all cooked in one pan. 2 packs is more than enough for 2 adults and 2 children.

It says so on the packet, but it doesn't. I use two packs between three people...

We do one packet each.
We started using it when our 2 year old started trying to get on the kitchen sides- makes it a lot safer then having pans of boiling water.
It's not as bad as I thought actually.

When eating rice (we don't now) we'd have one each and eat any leftovers later.

Yes it's not enough for 2 and too much for one. Two packs between 3 would be perfect.

No it feeds one I fucking hate sharing rice

1 pack of micro rice only feeds 2 people if your having other sides too. Just half pack of rice with a meal isn't going to fill anyone.

2! I give DH 3/4 and have 1/4 myself

TAAT

Ooh for the first time ever I'm actually on the abstimineous (spelling?!) side on one of these threads.

Dh and I share a packet of micro rice.

But then again we only have it with curry and chilli.

And will have a full garlic naan each or half a garlic bread stick each.

So maybe not that abstimineous.

We used the egg fried one with frozen mixed veg, leftover roast chicken and hoi sin sauce stir fried as an easy quick midweek meal. It's lush. Two packets with a mixed salad makes enough for dinner plus lunch for us both the next day.