Chicken thighs - per person?

On the whole ours offer us less food than we offer them - no one leaves here hungry!

Another is not being given enough to eat when visiting elders.

That's why I always cook plenty and let them help themselves.

Any leftovers (if there are) come in for the next day for DH and me. Obviously I fed them enough last time because no-one got around to cheese and biscuits.

Cheese anyone?

It's quite interesting to read MN occasionally.
After all GN sprang from MN so it's good to keep in touch.
There are certain recurring themes.
Along with impossible MILs and useless or creepy or controlling men.
Another is not being given enough to eat when visiting elders.
I'm guessing it's an age thing combined with different generational behaviour and expectations.
I wonder when today's 40 year olds are 70 will they be eating as much as they do now?

One for me, two for Mr C although if they’re large he’d be happy with one, we eat a lot of veg so not an empty plate.

Actually the latest health advice is to eat more fibre.

What nonsense it all is. A good varied diet of all colours - think Stone Age diet because that is what our systems have devolved to deal with. So seeds, nuts, grasses, fruit, veg with the odd bit of meat, fish, fats and sweet thrown in.

Btw we have 1 thigh each. Our butchers organic free range chicken are grown slowly over a longer period of time and are huge!

SuzieHi

Eating 2 is good- latest health advice is to up your protein as you age, as it helps build muscle which we are losing. Probably best to eat more protein & less dessert ! However, Yogurt & fruit with granola/ nuts is again high protein and satisfies a sweet tooth.

You can up your protein without eating more meat. Beans and pulses are also high in protein. You point out that nuts and dairy contain protein, but a manufacturered fruit yoghourt with granola is very high in sugar and the sugar will do more damage than you will benefit from the protein.

Eating 2 is good- latest health advice is to up your protein as you age, as it helps build muscle which we are losing. Probably best to eat more protein & less dessert ! However, Yogurt & fruit with granola/ nuts is again high protein and satisfies a sweet tooth.

If im entertaining 2 each. If just me and husband 3, 2 for him and 1 for me.

Oreo

Another fave meal for me Allira I’ll be round there for about 7.30🤭

Just as well I forgot to give you the address. It all got a bit fraught when I decided to make a citrus pudding as well.
(Don't ask!)

M0nica

It isn't a question of appetite. It is a question of reducing the amount meat we eat by serving smaller meat portions. There are many ways of eating a substantial and satifying meal while reducing the size of the meat portion

I agree. We're vegan. No animal ingredients, protein comes from other sources, our meals are substantial and satisfying.

We cook meat, eggs, cheeses, milks, creams for our family. They happily eat food prepared for the two of us, some prefer ours.

It isn't a question of appetite. It is a question of reducing the amount meat we eat by serving smaller meat portions. There are many ways of eating a substantial and satifying meal while reducing the size of the meat portion

Another fave meal for me Allira I’ll be round there for about 7.30🤭

I'll try it; the chicken thighs we bought have gone into the freezer for another time.
Boeuf bourgninon tonight!

😃 It’s easier than most people think to do, with the added bonus that it requires white wine and as Keith Floyd once said ‘ I cook with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food’.
It’s something I make about once a month.It’s lovely with mashed potatoes, rice or roast potatoes or pasta.If I do it with rice then I add peas, and with mashed or any potatoes then broccoli or butter beans.😋

I really want chicken fricassee now

Oo er, missus, that's posh!

The ones from the butcher stay the same size so if big then 1 but the supermarket ones shrink so it’s 2

Iam64

I’m well aware we eat Big Dinners in my famiky. This thread is making me feel slightly greedy 🤣

Go for 4! 🤭

I’m well aware we eat Big Dinners in my famiky. This thread is making me feel slightly greedy 🤣

Two per person and if any go begging just cut off the meat and mix with a salad or make sandwiches the day after.

One per person in our household too. Mostly i buy the boned and skinned ones and chop them up allowing 100gms per person.

Surely chicken thighs are the one item that are so versatile, and comparatively cheap, that it is better to overcater and have enough to freeze the left overs or make a sandwich.

I really want chicken fricassee now, I use chicken legs and thighs for that and DP likes 3 and I’m ok with two with the proviso they are large.😄

M0nica

I always serve one per person. It is more than sufficient.

Really? One chicken thigh?

I buy chicken thighs (among other things) for my2 cats and a small dog. Two thighs are a meal for them all. 100% meat and cheaper than pet food which can be 4% meat.

My OH would think he was being starved if he was only served one chicken thigh - my eight-year-old GS would quite happily scoff two!