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Surely nobody can eat a pack of pate?

615 replies

pyracantha · 25/01/2023 22:46

There are 4 of us. Once a week we have lots of different types of salads with French bread and pate as our evening meal. We love pate. It gets eaten at breakfast on toast in the days afterwards.

We never managed to eat it all before we’re scared of it. Why don’t they sell it in usable portions?

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MillicentTrilbyHiggins · 27/01/2023 18:39

Well I managed an entire pack of pate yesterday. (Farmhouse with mushrooms)
I filled the celery sticks with it and finished it off on my finger. My dc said that's slightly less weird than dipping celery in peanut butter.

Jaichangecentfoisdenom · 27/01/2023 18:41

TerfOnATrain · 27/01/2023 18:29

*need. Apologies, I’m on the Cote De Provence to get
into the swing of things.

Ha, the OP and her family would make that bottle of rosé last for a year, including after it had turned into wine vinegar after a few days left in the fridge.

CarPoor · 27/01/2023 18:43

Logically though even if you use only 10g pate per toast, 2 slices each for dinner thats 80g. Then one slice each for breakfast 2 days running and we're there. And that's with a scraping of pate. How can you have such vast quantities of pate left with 4 people over at least 2 meals?

I am wondering if OP means pâté. Is there a food I'm missing? Does OP know what pate is?

CarPoor · 27/01/2023 18:46

Gosh I really fancy pate but I'm concerned about sleepwalking into obesity if I dare consume more than the thinnest if scrapings.

diddl · 27/01/2023 18:47

I'm guessing it's a specific sort only available in one (too big) size??

Danielle9891 · 27/01/2023 18:47

Put it in a small tub with a bit of melted butter on top. It keeps it fresh . Many restaurants do this.

diddl · 27/01/2023 18:54

Can it be frozen?

ForeverTeach · 27/01/2023 18:54

Is one supposed to make a camembert last a month? If so I have seriously fucked up!

RampantIvy · 27/01/2023 18:57

@pyracantha are you going to come back and admit that this is a wind up?

No-one just scrapes a thin layer of pate on bread. That's not the right way to enjoy it.

Laiste · 27/01/2023 18:58

FFS i really want pate as well now.

I recon this thread was started by the Pate Marketing Board 🙄😆

Laiste · 27/01/2023 19:00

ForeverTeach · 27/01/2023 18:54

Is one supposed to make a camembert last a month? If so I have seriously fucked up!

A camembert? One month?

Gluttony. 6 months surely?

toxic44 · 27/01/2023 19:03

@FelicityFlops Good for you. I make our pate, both pork and chicken liver. As you say, it's not difficult. Waitrose fancy stuff is £51/kg. for ready made pate A suitable cut of pork for a terrine is £6-£9/kg. Pigs liver is a mighty £3/kg.

motleymop · 27/01/2023 19:06

OttersMayHaveShiftedInTransit · 27/01/2023 09:08

Can we get the police to do a welfare check on the OP? I'm worried that she has fallen victim to the scary pate.
I assume her address is Cold Comfort Farm.

I am surprised that nobody has said to call 999 yet! Shall we have a show of hands:

  1. 999
  2. welfare check
  3. don't be so ridiculous
ArtVandalay · 27/01/2023 19:12

When my son is back from uni, we go through a LOT of pâté; he’s a huge fan. He’ll go through a pack in 2 days.

TheWelshTart · 27/01/2023 19:13

pyracantha · 25/01/2023 22:59

we as a family really like it - it’s literally the once a week treat centre piece meal with salad on a Saturday night. We look forward to it. We also eat it for days afterwards as I said in my OP. Eventually the outside is grey and the inside is pink and I’m scared it’s not safe based on the packet instructions but also my nose.

Is it a massive salad though?

Are you a family of ants?

TheWelshTart · 27/01/2023 19:14

I had half a pate on toast for brunch this very day.

Shauny098 · 27/01/2023 19:16

pyracantha · 25/01/2023 22:59

we as a family really like it - it’s literally the once a week treat centre piece meal with salad on a Saturday night. We look forward to it. We also eat it for days afterwards as I said in my OP. Eventually the outside is grey and the inside is pink and I’m scared it’s not safe based on the packet instructions but also my nose.

This is possibly the most middle class post I’ve ever read 😂

butterpuffed · 27/01/2023 19:16

diddl · 27/01/2023 18:54

Can it be frozen?

Yes it can .

Op could do her own variation , put it into an ice cube tray .
Take out one piece at a time and share between the family once a week.

You'll find it much like being on I'm a Celebrity when they've won a trial .

Soulstirring · 27/01/2023 19:17

Haffiana · 25/01/2023 22:59

It would take my family a week to get through a whole pack of pate, although we do have serious food issues and non-stop, dreary, repetitive AND competitive under-eating problems, obvs.

Certainly couldn't possibly eat toast with it either. That would leave us too full and be greedy.

This. No requirement to solve world hunger anymore. Pate saves the day. Goodness.

teraculum29 · 27/01/2023 19:17

WaddleAway · 25/01/2023 23:07

DH ate a packet with a baguette last night with the leftovers for lunch today.
I genuinely can’t believe that 4 of you can’t eat a pack in a week.

1 packet surly could be easly eaten by 4 in 1 sitting.....

diddl · 27/01/2023 19:22

Well at least I now have tomorrow's main meal sorted out!

Will be sure to freeze any (imaginary) leftovers!

Pepsi2001 · 27/01/2023 19:26

Wish this was all I had to worry about!

WithIcePlease · 27/01/2023 19:27

I really want it now too
The toast is only actually for transporting the pate to your mouth imo- you can get a lot of pate on a small piece

Magnoliasunrise · 27/01/2023 19:33

Bloody love Mumsnet

Fluffmum · 27/01/2023 19:33

My mother eats a pack in one day once a week. Supermarket pate isn’t a massive slab