How many portions of bolognese or chilli do you get from 450g mince?

[AbsentmindedWoman]

Thinking of batch cooking a large pot and freezing some portions. It's only me that eats meat at home, so don't want any waste. Decent quality beef mince is about $7 a pound, how many portions would you get from this?

I have not cooked with mince for years and years!

We get 4 big portions but that could easily be done to 6

Depending on how much I bulk it out with other stuff ie peppera, onions, chestnut mushrooms, baby plum tomatoes, carrots etc...I can get 6-8 portions and I have a big appetite

Depends if you are bulking it out with other ingredients e.g. dh adds lots of beans and veg to his chilli

I feed 5 with that, and can squeeze a tomorrow lunch of leftovers portion as well.

However if I wanted to stretch it, I'd chuck a can of baked beans and some chilli powder, sweetcorn and an extra tin of tomatoes. Prob get 8 portions of that

Bolognese: 6
Chilli: 8
Approximately

I think the packs I buy are 500gm for around £4 and it normally serves 3 adults and a child for dinner with 2 freezer portions put back

Sliced peppers, onions and mushrooms. Chopped tomatoes, puree, garlic and mince. Herbs. (Spag Bol)

Save the left overs and add chilli powder, kidney beans, black beans and baked beans.

4 or 5

Not that much of a big appetite then @Sleepeatrepeat. How many meals does a Mumsnet chicken last you

Six full adult portions - I bulk with very large finely chopped onion, a very large grated carrot, and I'd use three tins of chopped tomatoes.

We tend to buy 500g mince at a time to make a bolognese which feeds 2 adults and a child twice.

Grate a carrot or two into it , it will bulk of up and you will hardly know it's there . Really good idea if kids don't eat enough veg . Use the finer grate side of your grater !

6-8 depending what else goes in, if I've got bacon to use up it stretches further, and I prefer a more vegetably sauce.

I’d probably get 2 dinners in my house, 2 adults and a teen who eats quite small portions still, so maybe 5 adult sized portions?

@UmbilicusProfundus

Not that much of a big appetite then *@Sleepeatrepeat*. How many meals does a Mumsnet chicken last you

I do tend to over do the pasta!!

I can't understand the chicken ones though. My mum can get a decent meal, sandwiches and soup out of one...I tend to.pick at it out the fridge so normal 1 meal of 3 of us and a sandwich

4 of each. We don't like onions so just use mince, passata and carrots in spag bol, and mince, 2 tins of mixed beans and passata in chili.

Probably 6 but I would add kidney beans, mushrooms, courgette, carrot and pepper.

I generally make 4 portions of pasta sauce for me and DH (so 2 meals) out of about half a kg. 100g protein per person is actually plenty, so you could stretch it to 5 portions for yourself if you wanted to. If it’s a veg-heavy pasta sauce I can get 3 meals out of it, so 6 individual portions.

Chilli stretches a lot further because I bulk it out with lots of beans and plenty of peppers. Plus we have pico de gallo/guacamole/etc on the side, and rice/tortilla chips/wedges for DH so I can get 4 or 5 meals out of it.

To begin with I would probably say it would easily cover 4 portions, but you could stretch it if needed.

Last week I managed to get 150g of mince to go for 2 large portions, a large lunch and a child's portion. There was a lot of carrot, pepper, onions and mushroom in it, and a handful of lentils too. We're moving house in a few weeks and eating some random stuff to empty the cupboards and freezers!

4 portions I think, but could bulk it out and stretch it probably to 6 if you wanted.

4or5.
Until recently it was 5or6 but both children seem to be having a growth spurt....

I made this at the weekend it only did 2 adults and 2 kids under 6!

Obviously we eat too much

Ok, read more of the responses and I forgot people put things in their bolognese. I would call mince with “stuff” in savoury mince.

I treat bolognese as a pasta sauce, like a traditional ragu. So pasta is the main part of the dish then I make bolognese with a sofrito and mince (and a smidge of tomato purée and milk).

For chilli I bulk mine out with beans, I like to use different types and sometimes I add chickpeas too for texture (not traditional but nice).

I looove savoury mince though and I could make that stretch to 10 portions easily!

Bolognaise - 4
Chilli - 3 (we like big bowls)