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.
Anonymous wrote: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.
OP, you can't be serious. You've gotten so much advice here. I think you need to just start doubling or tripling what you think is the "right" amount and then you'll be much closer to what your family really needs to feel full. You also need to understand sides - add a veggie side or two, salad, and bread to every meal (that already includes meat and carbs)!!!!
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.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Tonight's dinner I'm making meatballs using an lb of ground beef and I will use a full box of pasta and cheese. Baked spaghetti. I'm taking the pps advice and I'll make a salad with lettuce, spinach, sunflower seeds, mandarin oranges and thousand island dressing. They like that.
One box of pasta for 6 people? You're just being crazy now. This is ridiculous.
Anonymous wrote:Tonight's dinner I'm making meatballs using an lb of ground beef and I will use a full box of pasta and cheese. Baked spaghetti. I'm taking the pps advice and I'll make a salad with lettuce, spinach, sunflower seeds, mandarin oranges and thousand island dressing. They like that.
Anonymous wrote:Tonight's dinner I'm making meatballs using an lb of ground beef and I will use a full box of pasta and cheese. Baked spaghetti. I'm taking the pps advice and I'll make a salad with lettuce, spinach, sunflower seeds, mandarin oranges and thousand island dressing. They like that.
Anonymous wrote:Op here.
We had salsa and a can of black beans that I cooked with seasonings. I didn't serve rice because the tortillas are carbs and rice is another carb so I didn't think we needed it. My kids love my cooking and they say it's always delicious.
They requested spaghetti for dinner tonight so hopefully this will be more filling.
Anonymous wrote:My kids love my cooking and they say it's always delicious.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
For two adults, two teenaged athletes and two children you could buy two of those little bags of cheese, double the thighs, three more onions and triple the tortillas. You really aren't feeding them enough at all.