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Mince quantity question (stretching and portion sizes)?

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  • trolleyrun
    trolleyrun Posts: 1,382 Forumite
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    If you have a slow cooker, make bolognaise sauce. Just add lentils with your mince, whatever veggies you want, herbs/spices and chopped tinned tomatoes or passata. I do this quite a lot and you can't even taste the lentils :)
  • THIRZAH
    THIRZAH Posts: 1,465 Forumite
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    You could mix it with the same amount of sausage meat for meatballs or meatloaf
  • cutestkids
    cutestkids Posts: 1,651 Forumite
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    250g is the amount that I would normally use for a bolognese, chilli or shepherds pie for the 4 of us as i would be adding lots of veg and beans to the chilli etc.
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  • Fruball
    Fruball Posts: 5,739 Forumite
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    Definately enough for bolognese but as others have said, stir it through the spaghetti before serving and top with cheese.

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    Lasagne with a lot of chunky veg and a handful of red lentils will streeetch it to a decent size with maybe even a small left over to go into the freezer
  • JIL
    JIL Posts: 8,692 Forumite
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    chilli con carne with a tin of red beans and a tin of chick peas, mushrooms and peppers.
  • bossymoo
    bossymoo Posts: 6,924 Forumite
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    Or do you have tortillas? You could make chilli and stack with tortillas like lasagne and top with cheese. A sort of fajita stack...
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  • krlyr
    krlyr Posts: 5,993 Forumite
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    edited 28 December 2012 at 8:01PM
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    I made this the other month and the amount of meat you need is very little, it was very filling - we had far less than the serving size (yet were absolutely stuffed), I halved the whole recipe for the two of us and there was still enough leftovers for two generous lunch portions for 2 people the next day.
    http://www.itv.com/food/recipes/chunky-chilli-and-crispy-skinned-potatoes
  • winniepooh
    winniepooh Posts: 943 Forumite
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    Thank you to all of you. Loads of fab ideas
    I'm trying so hard to be thrifty, but it doesn't come naturally. You lot are an inspiration!
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  • zippychick
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    more exciting mince recipes has loads of ideas

    ill merge this later on

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