I'm having trouble keeping everyone fed.

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Anonymous wrote:Just out of curiosity -- how big a bag of cheese? How many tortillas did you use and how many pounds of chicken?

Those are random questions lol
It was a bag of Mexican blend cheese. The bag says it is 1 and a 1/4 cup. I know because I buy them all the time. I used 8 chicken thighs and cut them off the bones and grilled them that way. I used a whole onion and 4 big peppers. We had a bag of 10 flour tortillas.

Just as a point of comparison, when I (I've posted multiple times, mom of 2 teen hockey players) made a similar meal, we went through 15 toritillas, 2lbs of chicken breast, 1 container of sour cream, refried beans (the TJ variety), 3 cups of shredded cheese, and the assorted onions/peppers that you use to grill it. I have no recollection of what they ate afterward, but since I blow through 10 lbs of grapefruits ever week (weird, right?) and bunches of bananas, bags of apples, etc, I suspect that there was fruit involved. (Also, I don't eat meat, so it's just the boys + DH)

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Anonymous wrote:OP.

Start cooking twice as much as you think will be enough.

When you have leftovers, you have cooked enough.

The end.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Op here.

I don't have food issues. I just also feel like a pound of ground beef is a lot of meat. I will use two boxes of pasta for tonight and I'll make extra meatballs. I feel like a failure. Even when I order a pizza and wings for the family they are still hungry. At this point my goal is really just to have left overs so I know everyone is content.

Except that it's not, when you have growing kids, two of whom are teenage boys.

It is not about what you "feel." It is about what your kids need. They are TELLING you they need more - so make more! Plan your meal, and then make double what you think you need!

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Anonymous wrote:I have just died laughing at this thread, every aspect: the fact that my two boys will start eating us out of house and home in a few years - which we knew, my husband has regaled me with tales of his teenaged appetite, the teeny portions OP serves and the way some PPs have described it, the long lists of what groceries other PPs kids burn through in a few days... Oh my god, this thread is great!

Don't let them play hockey and soccer simultaneously! That's what's doing it to us.

A dozen eggs for breakfast. A half package of English muffins. Half the bag of shredded cheese. That's before my husband and I eat.

I had swimmer friends in high school that would drink a gallon of OJ, use a loaf of bread as French toast, dozen eggs, package of bacon, half gallon of milk, half box of cereal for 2 of them after every morning workout. Maybe I should recommend you not let them swim?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My takeaway from this thread:

I'm going to need a second refrigerator in 5 years.

I was thinking the exact same thing, especially after reading 21:40. Am I the only one who lives in a small house? Where are you supposed to keep all of this food?

We have a second smaller fridge in our bedroom for milk. If you have a small house, you simply start grocery shopping twice a week instead of weekly.

We have a second fridge in the basement.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a troll, people. she says she gets a pizza and wings for her 6 person family. That can't possibly be serious. My DH eats half a pizza himself. My TODDLER eats 2 pieces of pizza, my 5 year old at least 2. There is no way this person is not just yanking your chains. No one is this clueless.

I didn't mean literally one pizza. I do get more than that if everyone is here. Plus my husband and one son like special toppings so usually we have 3 pizzas and 20 wings and whatever bread stick/cheese stick option they have.

you said "a pizza and wings". now you are backtracking and saying you meant 3 pizzas and wings and breadsticks. That's just not credible. You are a ridiculous person.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a troll, people. she says she gets a pizza and wings for her 6 person family. That can't possibly be serious. My DH eats half a pizza himself. My TODDLER eats 2 pieces of pizza, my 5 year old at least 2. There is no way this person is not just yanking your chains. No one is this clueless.

I didn't mean literally one pizza. I do get more than that if everyone is here. Plus my husband and one son like special toppings so usually we have 3 pizzas and 20 wings and whatever bread stick/cheese stick option they have.

you said "a pizza and wings". now you are backtracking and saying you meant 3 pizzas and wings and breadsticks. That's just not credible. You are a ridiculous person.

As I said before I was speaking in general terms.

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Maybe you could re-define waste for yourself, OP. You need to learn to cook with leftovers. So, if you make chicken for dinner tonight, you roast 3 chickens. Really. 3. Tonight you serve the three chickens with a 5 lb bag of potatoes, cut up and roasted in the oven with olive oil and salt and 2 heads of broccoli.

There will be chicken left, either just the bones or meat on the bones. Tomorrow night is chicken stew. Pick all the meat off the three carcasses and set aside, then simmer the carcasses for 3 hours in water to make broth. Make stew with the broth, adding veggies and the leftover meat from tonight. Either make a huge pan of biscuits or make dumplings to go with the stew.

Was there broccoli and potatoes left over? Good. They go into omelettes for breakfast or lunch the next day.

Poof - no waste, even though they didn't eat everything you made for dinner. There are books about cooking this way if you are interested. Making enough food that there are bits and pieces left over does NOT mean you waste food!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe you could re-define waste for yourself, OP. You need to learn to cook with leftovers. So, if you make chicken for dinner tonight, you roast 3 chickens. Really. 3. Tonight you serve the three chickens with a 5 lb bag of potatoes, cut up and roasted in the oven with olive oil and salt and 2 heads of broccoli.

There will be chicken left, either just the bones or meat on the bones. Tomorrow night is chicken stew. Pick all the meat off the three carcasses and set aside, then simmer the carcasses for 3 hours in water to make broth. Make stew with the broth, adding veggies and the leftover meat from tonight. Either make a huge pan of biscuits or make dumplings to go with the stew.

Was there broccoli and potatoes left over? Good. They go into omelettes for breakfast or lunch the next day.

Poof - no waste, even though they didn't eat everything you made for dinner. There are books about cooking this way if you are interested. Making enough food that there are bits and pieces left over does NOT mean you waste food!

I made chicken stew and some posters told me it wasn't good enough. It was chicken, seasoning, veggies and garlic.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe you could re-define waste for yourself, OP. You need to learn to cook with leftovers. So, if you make chicken for dinner tonight, you roast 3 chickens. Really. 3. Tonight you serve the three chickens with a 5 lb bag of potatoes, cut up and roasted in the oven with olive oil and salt and 2 heads of broccoli.

There will be chicken left, either just the bones or meat on the bones. Tomorrow night is chicken stew. Pick all the meat off the three carcasses and set aside, then simmer the carcasses for 3 hours in water to make broth. Make stew with the broth, adding veggies and the leftover meat from tonight. Either make a huge pan of biscuits or make dumplings to go with the stew.

Was there broccoli and potatoes left over? Good. They go into omelettes for breakfast or lunch the next day.

Poof - no waste, even though they didn't eat everything you made for dinner. There are books about cooking this way if you are interested. Making enough food that there are bits and pieces left over does NOT mean you waste food!

I made chicken stew and some posters told me it wasn't good enough. It was chicken, seasoning, veggies and garlic.

See now OP, you are just trying to stir the pot. You said before it was soup, not stew, that you tried to feed them and they rebelled. This PP is telling you to make stew with veggies, alongside of a big pan of biscuits or dumplings. You must be a troll because you can't be this deliberately obtuse. On the other hand, I must be a fool to keep participating in this train wreck. On the off chance you are for real, please don't starve your family any longer.

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I'm the one who suggested stew, and I also saw your post about soup. So, with this stew, you are going to add potatoes. Lots of them. You can either use up the ones you roasted with the chicken, or add more. Also carrots, lots of those, too. Or sweet potato. If you make dumplings the stew will thicken by pulling flour out of the dumplings, but if you make biscuits instead thicken the stew with 1/4 cup of flour mashed into 3 tbs butter, then dropped into the broth. You can also add pasta and beans to the stew for extra oomph. That thickening with potatoes, flour, and beans is what turns a stew into a filling meal rather than the kind of food you and I (middle aged women, no?) prefer to eat.

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Anonymous wrote:I have just died laughing at this thread, every aspect: the fact that my two boys will start eating us out of house and home in a few years - which we knew, my husband has regaled me with tales of his teenaged appetite, the teeny portions OP serves and the way some PPs have described it, the long lists of what groceries other PPs kids burn through in a few days... Oh my god, this thread is great!

Don't let them play hockey and soccer simultaneously! That's what's doing it to us.

A dozen eggs for breakfast. A half package of English muffins. Half the bag of shredded cheese. That's before my husband and I eat.

I had swimmer friends in high school that would drink a gallon of OJ, use a loaf of bread as French toast, dozen eggs, package of bacon, half gallon of milk, half box of cereal for 2 of them after every morning workout. Maybe I should recommend you not let them swim?

Not the PP, but LMAO about the swimmers--that was pretty much my brother. He swam all year and played lacrosse in the spring, too. I remember my mom buying 2 or 3 pounds of deli turkey at a time and there being nothing to make a sandwich with by Tuesday. And my husband is one of four boys; he remembers trying to lick or spit on a second piece of chicken or something to try to claim it for seconds because they weren't allowed to take more than one piece at a time. Not that a little spit would deter a starving teen-aged boy.

I have two boys, too, and suppose that our Costco membership is going to get a heavy workout in years to come...

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I don't have teenage boys but 1 lb of ground beef for 2 adults and 2 elementary school children goes for at least 2 days.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't have teenage boys but 1 lb of ground beef for 2 adults and 2 elementary school children goes for at least 2 days.

Then you are some dainty eaters. DH can plow through 3/4 lb or so of beef in the form of meatloaf or meatballs. DS, 4, eats about 1/4-1/2 lb. Of course, that's one of the few foods the stubborn, picky little boy will eat, so have at, I say.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't have teenage boys but 1 lb of ground beef for 2 adults and 2 elementary school children goes for at least 2 days.

Ok, we're not huge meat eaters, but I use up 1 lb of ground beef cooking for 2 adults, a 4 year old and a 1 year old.