50p a day til Christmas - healthily?! Weezl's next challenge...

ceridwen · 8 July 2008 at 6:45AM

weezl74 wrote: »

Hello Cw18, Sian the Green and growingafamily,
Amazed that so many people are up this early/late! Glad the potato bread went down well (literally) Cw18.
Acetate Monkey (still doing guerilla posting)

"guerilla posting" eh? Well - Acetate Monkey - whatsabout guerilla gardening? Been doing any of that then!!!:D

love
ceridwen

(struggling a bit with that - as fast as I clear rubbish of the bit I am "stewarding" the b........s put more rubbish on it!:mad: ). Was reading the latest entry on the Transition Towns blog yesterday - as they were walking round Totnes wondering where they could do bits of guerilla foodgrowing and commenting on various bits which would be suitable, if it wasnt for vandals with "old paradigm" thinking being likely to spoil things and debating what they could plant that "old paradigm" vandals wouldnt ruin......I can sympathise.......:rolleyes: How does one persuade vandals that Peak Oil is now knocking hard at the door and will be busting that damn door down any second now - so behave yourselves?:cool: (goes off muttering to self "Power of Community", "Power of Community".........)

Still.....keep up the good work....now I wonder why I get the impression that you're enjoying this just as much as our Weezl is;)

?

(PS: Dont worry our weezl - I'm still around - and lurking.....just been a bit shattered the last couple of days....and still tied-up with getting well-stocked-up with everything/getting my act together for foodgrowing in teensy backyard/etc).

ceridwen · 8 July 2008 at 7:10AM

Well...our Weezl....maybe too I'm not posting quite as much on your thread...because I'm now well convinced that you'm truly up and running....at a positive rate of knots I'd say (heh!). Obviously geeks are positive "flavour of the year" my lass...as you are piling up the views and comments at a phenomenal rate these days.

love
ceridwen (aka your favourite Old Crone)(EDIT: make that "Crone of a certain age")

x

Penelope_Penguin · 8 July 2008 at 7:14AM

weezl74 wrote: »

Hiya Penny penguin, well spotted! It's not fresh, but it's there, everyday, since I did a bit of research on the '5 a day' The first few weeks of the last challenge I was a bit lax!

The liver casserole has 1 portion each of onion, 2 of tomato and 1 of spring greens in it. The houmous sandwich has my pulse allowance of one of the 5 (but I don't think I have enough to get a whole portion. only 20g for me) Foraged rocket 50g in my sarnie for another half and I'm there, (by the skin of my teeth!) I should really have the jammy pud, but I'm stuffed!

Mr weezl's pasta is a 4 veg portion (onions and tomato) and the jam/compote in the sponge gave the full 80g portion (you should see the size of his pudding!).

Thanks for that :T We grow a lot of our own fruit and veg (1/3 acre plot in the coutryside). I need to eat at least 1 portion of "crunchy" fruit and veg at each meal

and am always snacking on fresh fruit - especially in the autumn when we pick some of she sweetest, titchy apples I've ever eaten, from the garden

The Race was fab, thanks for asking :A Ran in the pouring rain, but completed in 35 mins, which, considering the conditions, I was very pleased with

Penny. x

hypno06 · 8 July 2008 at 7:25AM

PP, well done on that race for life - that is a pretty good time :T

Today is my second day of "being more aware what I spend and what I eat" - yesterday we managed a no-spender and had pizza (on offer) and chips (bogof) - ok, so not the best meal, nutritionally, but yummy and much appreciated by my 12 and 14 year olds!!! (they DO get plenty of fruit and veg - honest!!)

Tonight I will be doing something pasta based - I have some spinach in the freezer, odds and ends of pepper/onion/tomato etc and some sliced ham approaching its sell by date (free courtesy of OH's friends having a fridge clear out), and a tub of soured cream in the fridge that is well past its sell by date, but, hey that's what soured cream is all about, surely!!! So some sort of creamy pasta sauce is likely to make an appearance.

I also have a butternut squash that is really past its best (can't you see why I need to do this challenge - I buy too much!!) and some ginger, so may well make a soup from this in the next day or so - that should then freeze well, shouldn't it!

Penelope_Penguin · 8 July 2008 at 7:25AM

zarazara wrote: »

does anyone have a houmous recipe please?

Here you go - hummous recipes

Penny. x

In_Search_Of_Me · 8 July 2008 at 7:38AM

Just popping in before I go off to learn stuff! Weezl...had a thought (dangerous!!)...(a) Would you fancy some chicken pate - in freezer & forgot to give to mr W (note to us must take time rather than rush cupboard purging in future!)...with that amount of butter no WAY thats being eaten by moi....Also re the pot bread was it 9.5 syns per loaf rather than per slice...the former the better option as by my quite naff calcs would work out at 0.5 syns per slice which isnt that bad!!

weezl74 · 8 July 2008 at 7:47AM

Hi hon!

More free food! No-one's gonna think this challenge is possible unless you live near ISOM!!!! BOB, Hazzie, redsquirrel all packing their bags now and headed for Cardiff!:D

Unless I got the weight of a slice very wrong (I estimated 64g- cw18, I don't suppose you'd weigh a slice for us if you've still got any left?) it was alas 9.5 syns per slice according to their calculator! 'Normal' bread might be less syn-full?

Would you like me to try the maths?

Acetate monkey! Have you got insomnia?!

hello ceridwen:hello:, I knew you'd be busy, weaving your webs!

Love Weezl x

cw18 · 8 July 2008 at 8:16AM

Weezl, still got loads left as it's too early for most of this family

But mine didn't rise well, and the thickness of a slice is very open to interpretation,,,,, we tend to do "doorsteps"

Will weigh the untouched load (half dough) though and be back with that shortly

cw18 · 8 July 2008 at 8:30AM

back..... the as yet uncut loaf weighs 612g

weezl74 · 8 July 2008 at 8:50AM

cw18, fab! Thank you so much, ISOM that's good news mate, that'd make it 5.5 syns per slice if you get 16 slices to a loaf :T

On the growing my own front penny penguin, I'm gonna have fresh stuff really soon! Jealous of your amount of land though, and how much you're able to grow!;)

A solitary tomato is definately more red than green now, and 2 of my cucumbers are very nearly ready to harvest. Along with all the wild rocket I foraged yesterday, and some of the nastertiums I got from feecycle, I think we'll be having lots of our 5 a day as fresh crunchy stuff very soon!:j

So far the only harvest has been a jar of jam's worth of blackcurrants. But we're persevering!

Cooo-eeeee, anyone good at gardening, shaz, Penny Penguin...... can you help?

Me and Mr Weezl were chatting earlier, and the thing we realise we miss/don't like now the garden is more productive than ornamental, is the amount of bare, brown earth you see. We used to have a riot of weeds, which, cos we're not purists just looked pretty to us! Greens and bright pinks everywhere.:T

Although I really like seeing the dwarf beans in rows with their canes, they look a bit 'allotmenty'. Erm, is there a way around this?

It's probably a daft question

:D.

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