Surely nobody can eat a pack of pate?

[pyracantha]

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?

Can't you just throw it away, once it becomes frightening?

Hand on heart I could eat a whole tub to myself in one go 😂

A single pack of pate with salad is the once a week, centrepiece treat for the family?

What do you have other nights? A sausage, a fish finger?

And I thought my Saturday nights were dull...

Pate and salad, the weekly treat. Jings help ma boab.

So you pretty much have pate every day?

Are you The Borrowers?

I wish there was a ‘like’ button for comments like this!

Must say, I sort I’d agree with OP. It’s just me, DH, and the cat. DH is vegetarian so I have to tackle the whole thing alone. I could easily chow the whole thing with a loaf on my favourite crusty bread (and the cat will happily help out if allowed) but it’s not the best dietary choice, so I do limit the amount that I let myself have. I’d prefer to buy it in a smaller package.

This is hands down the best thread in ages

I’ve got a lovely half eaten jar of luxury pate in the fridge from Christmas. It’s two tone now though.

Is there a helpline? Should I eat it or not?

You seem to be treating it like old- fashioned “sandwich spread” not pâté. It has to be thick enough that you can see teeth marks after you bite.

But it's only 175 g isn't it? That's only about 6 ounces between the whole family.

Buy a smaller pack of a nicer variety of you are unable to finish bigger pack of cheaper one?

A family of four eat it "for days" and it just doesn't get any smaller? 🤔
To be honest, I'd be scared if that too. Sounds like it's been infiltrated by alien forces.

This is what you’re meant to do with pate. What do you do with it, OP? For four people, I’m genuinely not seeing how it could last multiple meals, unless you’re only using the gentlest scrapings.

I’d find that tricky.

Why?

There is a language (I forget which one, possibly Swedish?) that has a word for butter spread so thickly you leave teeth marks in it when you bite into the bread. This is the minimum standard for pâté.

I just checked the pate in the fridge. It's 175g, and says use within 2 days of opening. It also says this product (175g) provides 3 servings.

We would easily use

If op is genuine I think they probably have some sort of eating disorder and is probably best not engaged with

Or it replenishes itself <dreams>

God that looks heavenly I’m starving 🤤

in OPs defence though about pate not been a treat , as someone who aims for low carb typically then some decent bread and pate does sound a nice tea

Sorry! Continued..

We would use 1 tub between 4 of us in one meal tbh.

Not sure what your issue is?

Or it replenishes itself <dreams>

The Magic Pate Pot! Yes please.

I am going through a big "pate on toast for lunch" phase....

So in conclusion OP you are eating your pate wrong.

Oof, I love pâté! I can easily polish off a packet to myself in one sitting 😳

YABVU unless it’s a 1kg pack you’re talking about.

This cannot be true.

A favourite meal of the week is bread, salad with a scraping of pate....that then lasts for days.

DH and I would eat that pate in one sitting (hell I could probably give it a good go myself).

I'm pondering what you eat the rest of the week.

Breakfast: one weetabix with a dribble of milk (the rest of the bottle being thrown away two weeks later as it's gone off)?

Lunch: omelette for four made with one egg each and a cube of cheese (the pack of which takes so long to eat it gets mouldy)?

Yeah! I think it's the 170g and frankly, that's a single portion😁