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?

Who's Yuk Sung?!

😂😂 gluten nacht
I'm going to have nightmares about pate now

we had wayyyyyy too much bought us over christmas. we had them weeks and weeks after.

Me too. DH and I can easily scoff a packet for supper with french bread or crackers. By mi

I agree. To be honest I'm just baffled at this whole thread 🤣 I don't know what to say. I think they've just been spreading it too thin this whole time. It's going to be awkward on Saturday when OP suddenly starts slathering on the pate and the rest of the family are just staring at her like 😳

Hope she remembers to buy food for the multiple breakfasts that will no longer centre round leftover pate ....

I don't even eat the stuff, but I've watched people each munch their way through portions almost the size of the co-op pack as a starter.

Think a previous poster called it correctly. This is a research thread into obesity in the UK. 👍

Blimey, are you buying industrial-sized portions?

Compare it to restaurant-sized portions.

Yes it should be a thick layer. It's not like marmite.

I don't eat it but from watching family and friends, it is definitely meant to dumped on in slabs or thick swirls... not scraped on like marmite.

Begs the question... how do you apply clotted cream to a scone? Fresh butter to hot toast? Boursin or I hear non garlicky versions of cream cheese are available, to, anything at all... Hummus...

worries for OP

When you've been feasting on a mumsnet chicken for a week, before you use the carcass to make stock, there's plenty of meat to make your own pate.

Yep. In this household pâté is spread (or rather, wodged) onto the bread in a thick and chunky layer. I think spreading thinly is the reason you're not getting through it!

My 4 year old and I ate nearly 2/3 of a standard pack of pâté with bread, cheese and salad for lunch today.

@BertaHoon I'll share my favourite salad for winter. It's decadent and delicious!

Bake a camembert and while it's cooking, prepare a bed of salad leaves on individual plates, including rocket and chopped cherry tomatoes. Add a few dollops of caramelised onions and a generous sprinkle of dried cranberries and walnuts. Once the camembert is cooked, plonk on top of the salad (use a large serving spoon to divide into portions). Drizzle balsamic glaze (or a really good, sweet balsamic vinegar) over the lot. Serve with warm crusty bread.

Quarter it.
Put a quarter on each plate
Eat it
Jobs a good'un

No being terrified of pate in days to come.

This. 1/4 each is perfect. If it greys it's just oxidised not bad if it's wrapped, kept in the fridge and in date.

How big is this pate if a family of four are eating it for their main meal one day and then days afterwards?! It doesn’t go grey if you store it properly.

I distinctly remember my DM eating half a pack with crackers every now and then as a treat. How big of a portion are you buying?

Yum!! Thank you!

You could buy it by weight from a deli and get just enough for your repast. Though as pointed out by others, you don’t seem to understand how pâté should be eaten.

How in Gods name is a pack/tub of coop pate the centre piece of a family meal?

this has to be a hooved one & that's before you get to the BS about how it's too big a pack????

i only eat vegetarian 'pate' but as a low carber i only eat it very very rarely as it's just not the same on 'wet' food (cucumber/lettuce) you need the proper carbs (French bread, toast, crackers)

This thread has made me laugh and soooo want some pate, quite an achievement as I have COVID which has crushed my appetite to the extent where even imagining lovely food is meh.

I agree the OP is clueless as to how to apply the pate to the bread. Have they never heard of a builder's trowel?

I am not a big eater, nor am I am large. I'm a very petite size 8. Even I can eat a 150g pack of pate over the course of an evening.

I make my own pate. It's delicious. It's always darker on the outside and pink on the inside. That's how it's meant to be - like a good steak.

Are you seeing that Yorkshire Handmade Food pies too, OP?

That’s your family sorted for February.

I know lots of people have said the same and I haven’t read every post BUT I could eat a whole packet in 10 minutes and even my dad, who is old and has a small appetite, would eat a packet in three days shared over three meals as the “centrepiece” of the meal.

I'm the sort who's often accused of competitive undertaking (cant finish a takeaway, more than one meal from a chicken) but even I don't struggle to get through a normal pack of pate.

I sometimes have it on toast for breakfast and the pack tends to last 2 or 3 days.

I think if I was serving it as a Saturday night treat meal to a family of 4, as well as the whole pack of pate and bread, I'd be adding substantial salads with grains, pulses or cheese otherwise I'd think it looked a bit stingy to be honest.

This thread has done me a power of good. Bloody hilarious