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?

Don't throw it OP send it to Ukraine they can scare the Russians with it.

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Ah ffs, I’m trying to give pate up! Now I have to go and get some tomorrow. My family will be really annoyed because pate gives me wiiiiind.

@pyracantha you can use leftover pate as a pasta sauce. It is devine! Lots of recipes online how to use it.

Good god, we've frequently had to more the second day when we have meals like that. All the cold meats and the cheeses will be finished at some point that week, but the paté is lucky to last more than a night (that's mainly me tbh). We tend to sit over thise sort of meals for some time, and dd will pick at the cheese, dh at the salamis and I at the paté.

If I'm off my form though, then dh will have it on toast for lunch but it could last him another 10 days or more. Basically, I assume paté doesn't go off until it smells odd. If yours smells odd after less than a week then I dread to think what you're buying. We tend to get bog standard from the Co-op or Tesco.

Pate? Just a lettuce leaf for me thanks. I had a big dinner in 1998.

Pate Fears Two

If it helps, I’m sure one of the supermarkets used to stock tiny packs of pate - about two or three tablespoons in a heat-sealed pack. This was one years ago though and I’m not sure which supermarket it was but maybe worth investigating.

Oh OP

thank you for cheering me up at 2am. Bless your ‘eart

Why aren’t you buying smaller reusable pots (like primary school kids take to school for lunch for snacks) and dividing it up yourself like a big kid?

It sounds like people are putting it on as a thick layer on French bread rather than a spread? I’d find that tricky.

Odd wording. Tricky in what way?

*You can pop some plastic wrap or melted butter over the top like a membrane or freeze it.

I've been struggling with anorexia and bulimia on and off for decades and even i think this is pathetic.

Depressed by the image of the whole family gathered around to marvel at the salad with pate centerpiece of a Saturday night.

pate literally lasts forever. and you can eat it well after a few days!

I buy the 200g oblong pack from Asda.
As I'm the only one who eats it, I cut the slab into 5 portions, wrap each in foil and put all in a plastic freezer bag and freeze.
Take out at breakfast time and it's well thawed by lunch time.
I hate wasting food.

This is like the mythical mumsnet chicken, the pate rendition.

how can a pot of pate be a centre piece and then used for multiple meals. You must have like a tea spoonful each. Max.

do you all like sit with your tiny spoonful for dinner then?

Why am I reading about pate at 2am

I can't stand pate, however my adult son loves it. It will be gone over 1 or 2 days if I buy a nice one for Christmas. He doesn't know the word spread. Slices it on (like I do cold butter on toast!). Yep, he'll get through a packet. It's weird because he's such a fussy eater!

🤣 why am I replying?

I just fancy some marmite on toast now.

Pate mings.

Night!

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Can you tell me your lots of different types of salad please?

I'm in a bit of a salad rut right now.

🤣 I love marmite..goodnight

I don't want any of that pate muck though.

Especially if rancid like yours.

Me too I need to go to bed. 😂

im just bemused 4 people can’t manage a quarter pot of pate each for a meal , it’s literally a dessert spoon full. Most folks put that on one slice of crusty bread. A standard pot of pate is about 3 portions.

they must literally have tiny scrapings of it. If I put one pot of pate out for dinner my family would be side eyeing me and asking where the rest was. it would be a snack. I’d seriously have to provide mucho other stuff and the pate would certainly not be the star.

I'm still spewing faff 🤣

Okay time to tackle the wooden hills off to Bedfordshire A&E (probably). Let's hope not!

Gluten nacht. Bloody auto correct.