Planning family meals

[Jan]

How much do you/would you allow per person for the meat/protein per meal?

[jndt]

I don't really measure if I'm honest. But a 500g packet I split between 5 so about 100g each.

[mitch84]

1 steak, 1 large chicken breast, 150g of lean mince.

[Fluffypenguin]

If we do a spag bol or a chilli, then we use a 250g pack of mince, so 125g pp. For burgers it’s slightly less at 110g per person.
Chicken, we usually have a chicken breast each in a meal.

This is for two adults, male and female. My partner (male) has a bigger portion size than I do though, so although we split it up this way before cooking, I probably get less and he gets more. All of our meals are packed out with veg and stuff though.

[cybermum]

Originally Posted by jdndt

I don't really measure if I'm honest. But a 500g packet I split between 5 so about 100g each.

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Same as this.

[Sandraoh40]

Originally Posted by Fluffypenguin

If we do a spag bol or a chilli, then we use a 250g pack of mince, so 125g pp. For burgers it’s slightly less at 110g per person.
Chicken, we usually have a chicken breast each in a meal.

This is for two adults, male and female. My partner (male) has a bigger portion size than I do though, so although we split it up this way before cooking, I probably get less and he gets more. All of our meals are packed out with veg and stuff though.

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This would roughly be the same for us, any extra used goes for lunches.
But I don’t really weigh and measure as such, I just know now how much to use.

[ClaireNJ]

Originally Posted by jdndt

I don't really measure if I'm honest. But a 500g packet I split between 5 so about 100g each.

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Whoops 🙊🙊 when I make shepherds pie I use 500g for the 2 of us 😳
Spaghetti bolognese & Chilli I only use 250g for us 🤩

[Fluffypenguin]

Originally Posted by Sandraoh40

This would roughly be the same for us, any extra used goes for lunches.
But I don’t really weigh and measure as such, I just know now how much to use.

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Yeah we don’t measure, we just buy a 1k tub of mince and split it up in 250g portions by eye. Obviously for the burgers we do weigh just because we do 5 Guys style ones!