"Serves 4"

[mouse4702]

Yeah, serves 4 if 3 go without. 

I am constantly amazed at the brass neck of food producers who claim their product feeds more than it obviously does.  How many times have you picked up a packet of something which it says "feeds 4" and you get about 4 spoonsful?  I'm brassed off! 

[rainydaywoman11]

Oh you're wonderful.  My husband buys bits and bobs in M&S, a man of habit, has done forever.  However, usually on the way back from the hospital, we lift up the ready meals (he has a large appetite) and make fun of, and do not buy, any of them (I think he would faint dead away if cooked food became unavailable), 'feeds two' - what, 2 budgies?

[mouse4702]

I'm afraid we have rather a naughty saying to cover this.  My sister married into a family of rather diminutive people.  We say it "feeds 4 Robertsons".

I've just cooked a pound of chicken thigh in korma cook-in sauce and congratulated myself on getting enough for 2 meals to freeze, although it said on the jar "serves 3".  Then I remembered I used 2 jars.....  Ah well, I don't have 6 thimbles to freeze it in anyway.

[023mjc]

The toffs who run these companies are probably expecting you to make it part of a 4 course meal - what they are no doubt used to having every night. We used to enjoy those dried vesta meals (remember those) but we had to have 2 each so it became too expensive and we haven't had it for a while. They are just doing themselves out of business. Far more people would buy them if they were more realistic.

[mouse4702]

Oh gosh yes, the Vestas.  I used to love them, but they did only feed one.  Now you get "feeds one" servings which are even tinier!

[captainbovine]

oh I remember them, I used to love doing the crispy noodles in the chip basket for the chow mein, I really enjoyed that!

I often look at a meal and wonder who on earth shares that with another micro person!!!

half of some of them I could serve up to my OH on a saucer...

[ginap.123]

Serves 4 midget mice

[bhgardeners]

Some are larger than others.  Bought an Asda family size meal, serves 4, for the 3 of us one day.  Dumped it in the oven, cooked up a load of veg to go with it and had far too much to fit on the plates!.  Others, as you say, are a mere snack - even when provided with add ons.

[millielilac]

My mum started to buy Wiltshire Farm Foods ( advertised on TV by Ronnie Corbett ) to save cooking and it was delivered to the door ...

However she was needing to supplement the meals by cooking extra veg as the portion sixes were too small ....which defeated the object of buying the meals in the first instance ......

Bizarrely the AD has just come on TV !!!!!

[fishpieface]

Ridiculous isn't it?!  I occasionally buy a ready-made chicken tikka masala as a treat for son and I, when Hubby's away (he doesn't like the smell or the taste!).  Now call us little piggies but I have to buy two as the two servings one is supposed to provide would be

hard pushed to keep a flea alive!

[cookiecookuk]

i treated myself to a small mt's finest christmas cake and it was smaller than a saucer which is ok with me but on the box it said serves 16 how the he@@ did they work that one out..

[merc1_clocks]

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@cookiecookuk wrote:

i treated myself to a small mt's finest christmas cake and it was smaller than a saucer which is ok with me but on the box it said serves 16 how the he@@ did they work that one out..

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 cookie...it's a sniff & a lick for 16 

[cookiecookuk]

if i had not been diabetic i would probably have cut in to 8 max .i actually cut it into 10 ..but they were very small pieces..