To think 240g of mince isn’t enough for 2 people?

[Ostryga]

Got a hello fresh delivery today and one of the recipes (classic cottage pie) was delivered with the smallest amount of mince I’ve ever seen. It is palm sized! Now I know theres other veggies and potatoes in it, but is this not slightly ridiculous? It’s about 4 mouthfuls of meat!

Am I just exceptionally greedy 😂

Because they bring you exact ingredients so if you do it instead of big shop, their basic recipes will do as well a the special.

The 80s child in me is saying shove a tin of baked beans in if you need to bulk it out 🤣

I used Hello Fresh a few times and was surprised at how large I had let my own home made portions become. I would use it again just for the portion control but am living on beans on toast until the end of the month after overspending at Christmas.! I also live on my own so not sure if its worth it for only 1 person?

That’s plenty, you are indeed a greedy bugger . I use 1kg for a family of 7 so about 140G each.

Has anyone read ‘how bad are bananas?’ The book about the carbon footprint of everything?

Rather than simply telling everyone to reduce everything, it suggests what is a sustainable amount of carbon per head, then tells you the amounts different things ‘cost’ so you can decide how to spend your allowance. It acknowledges some people might love meat or whatever, and cut back in other areas.

The thing to be aware of, if you aren’t already, is beef is the biggest meat creator of C02. So many meat eat less beef especially and less meat overall and their contribution. A slightly smaller beef portion, especially if you eat it regularly is the kind of small contribution that everyone making, really adds up.

It’s a win-win isn’t it, given most of us eat too much and have too much protein in our diets already.

I have to admit that I am pass this "if we all do bit" because while I eat half a steak some rich twat will make in 2 hours enough emissions to cover 7000 steaks (not an exact number)😐

@Pothoswithasparkle Absolutely spot on. No, I'm not taking responsibility for the world's ills. It has fuck all to do with me eating some meat.

I stopped reading that post when they started wanging about "allowance".
Fuck off and thump your climate-bible at Bezos on his yacht. Bet he doesn't have an allowance

Bezos doesn't even piss me off as much as all the "you all have to cut down" flying on private jets to environment conferences.
Take ryanair like the rest of us ffs
(Before anyone starts, private jets are more damaging per passanger than commercial jets)

That’s one of the wittiest comments I’ve seen!!!! Brilliant!

Agree @Pothoswithasparkle But yeah, my 100g of mince is directly linked to the eruption of Eyjafjattlajokull

If you’re super hungry, Chuck in a tin of chick peas or a few green lentils, cheap better for the planet and health wise great

I've made this from hello fresh and initially thought the same but it was plenty and was delicious 🤤

You’d ruin the texture of the whole thing. It would be better to have them as some kind of side instead IMO.

Right onyttg
good point the texture of mince is so delicious

I do think in some cases a teaspoon of Bovril would give more flavour than 80g of supermarket mince...

Is it premium quality though? If too fatty it will cook down a lot…

We would use 240 for 4 (but two are under 5 years old). But bulk it out with a lot of other vegetables (very finely diced). Or sometimes add lentils to bulk it out

I use 750kg for a family or 6 adults, fill it up with veggies and pasta or mash potato depending what I'm making

750kg would be quite a lot considering 75kg is about 12 stone ( don't ask how I know this ).

😂

That's plenty

If anyone is still reading this - PLEASE ignore the poster who said we should eat 1g protein per pound of bodyweight. That's wrong and potentially very unhealthy.
The correct figure is 0.8 g per kilo of bodyweight.

Have a read of this, from Harvard (the NHS says the same, but so many people tend to dismiss that) : www.health.harvard.edu/blog/how-much-protein-do-you-need-every-day-201506188096
and
www.health.harvard.edu/nutrition/when-it-comes-to-protein-how-much-is-too-much

And when it comes to climate change, most beef - except premium grass-fed - is fed on soya. Soya used in western cattle-rearing is often grown on land where rainforests have been cut down. Rainforests have a crucial role in preventing climate change. Your mince/burger etc DOES have an effect on climate. So don't pretend it does't. This is a view from one end of the spectrum:
interactive.carbonbrief.org/what-is-the-climate-impact-of-eating-meat-and-dairy/]]
However, the precise details depend on how and when you measure. This is more nuanced ghgguru.faculty.ucdavis.edu/2019/11/13/its-time-to-stop-comparing-meat-emissions-to-flying/

Of course, aviation of all kinds is a polluter as well. Holidays and cargo, collectively, have more impact that rich peoples' private jets. But the biggest polluters are industry, electrical generation and transport. And that implicates most of us.

I get my beef from our local farm shop. Grass fed. So no, my burger has fuck all to do with the destruction of rainforests.

Astonishing how little people know. All cows (beef) fart and are helping create climate change.

I’m not saying people shouldn’t eat any beef or all be veggie….but at the same time, we do have to start understanding the choices we make and the impact they DO have on the world. Pretending it’s not happening or we personally don’t have any impact is a key part if the problem.