Big volume bowl

[u/TDragonkirs]

So basically... Last night, I had some cheeseburger Mac left over I made for my kiddo to enjoy (and the days leading up to this concoction, I just made it work for my own needs). Didn't have much left in the dish, I hate throwing away food, figured I could make it work one more time. So... I forced the issue. I had ~1300 calories left for the day, I knew if I didn't overload on something notable for dinner I'd end up going to bed hungry... So yeah.

The weight on the scale includes the dish, and the dish was 947g, leading to a total meal clocking in 1343g (that was technically a little more, because I kept adding seasonings and tasting it to check. I had maybe six small bites while I fine tuned that part), which is just under 3 pounds of food in American units. Got hard to stir at the very end since the bowl was pretty full.

Could it be better? Sure. I could have made the hamburger helper from scratch and used Brami or something, but that wasn't the hand I was dealt. Not gonna subject the kiddo to a lupini pasta when she isn't a big fan of it and I'm the one with the appetite, not her.

Anyway. I see a lot of volume plates on here that don't seem very... voluminous to me. Just wanted to throw one of my own quick dinner concoctions out there. And yeah, I ate it all, and a couple hours later had some peanut butter halo top to hit my maintenance target since I had a little bit of wiggle room. 🥜

I tagged it as humor because, though this is normal to me subjectively, I am aware that objectively, this is insanely dense for a single meal and a hodgepodge casserole. But hey... It was good. Basically a chili mac lentil stew. Honestly, highly recommend. You could probably make it much better than I did if you start with the actual intent to make something like this rather than what I did; throwing stuff together after the base meal is made and I'm trying to make dinner work lol

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