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Weezl and friends Phase 2 -giving it a whirl for Shirl! Testing meal plan for a month
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allegra yes please to the second list, though is there a way we can show which have yet to have their finalised amounts added, cos I'm still working on it due to PC issues yesterday:eek: I have all the ones (I think) that you let me know I needed to sort by the weekend done tho
:hello:Jonathan 'Fergie' Fergus William, born 05/03/09, 7lb 4.4oz:hello:
Benjamin 'Kezzie' Kester Jacob, born 18/03/10, 7lb 5oz:)
cash neutral gifts 2011, value of purchased gifts/actual paid/amount earnt to cover it £67/£3.60/£0
january grocery challenge, feed 4 of us for £400 -
lol weezl its no big deal really-we did it backwards. When we got together we were already living together and so lived together for a couple of years. For a variety of reasons (i.e me going to live in Venice) we couldnt move back in together so hopefully now one the post grad is done we can be back to normal!!
For things like the butter and pate what are people using for storage??
XXXXXIn art as in love, instinct is enough
Anatole France
Things are beautiful if you love them
Jean Anouilh0 -
Warning - all the quantities, where given, are for a family of 4 - don't forget to do the maths to suit your family before embarking on batch cooking !
Month 1 Recipes :
Bread - 10 batches of 4 loaves, each loaf yields 16 slices
Breakfasts
Porridge x 16
Apple curd - 1 batch made with 1 kg apples
Breakfast pancakes x 2
Nut butter 2 batches with 400g peanuts each
Lunches
Tangy bean pate 2 batches with 1 can beans
Houmus 1 batch
Lunchtime pate (1 batch, eaten at 3 meals)
Green pea soup x 1
Pea and apple soup x 3
Potato and onion soup x 2
Chutney
Mayo
Butternut squash risotto x 1
Snacks
Carrot cake x 4 - 32 pieces each
Boodle's biscuits - 2 batches of 41
Orange flim-flam (1 batch) & bread 50-60 slices
Savoury bites - 3 batches
Savoury flapjacks
Scones - 4 cheese and mustard batches, 3 tomato, 4 raisins (each batch 21 scone)
Dinners
Spanish Omelette x2 -serve with 80g carrots and 250g potatoes per person
Carbonara x2 -serve with 3 slices bread each
Delia's onion tart x2 -serve with 80g each of peas and carrots
Risi e bisi x3
Pizza x3
Chicken and onion pie x2 - serve with 80g carrots and 200g potato each
Bacon and onion steamed pudding x2 serve with 80g peas & 250g potatoes p/p
Chilli x2 - served with 100g rice each
Pasta Alfredo x2
Cottage pie x2 - serve with 80g each of peas and carrots per person
Bean curry x3 - serve with 100g rice each
Pasta Amatriciana x2
Chicken with bubble and squeak and stuffing x2
Veggie burgers x2
The ones in grey are still being updated by the lovely Weezl
Meals with potatoes - a note from Weezl:
In the spirit of adding variety, you can either make them into wedges or add an oil and vinegar dressing each time, or alternatively you could use some of shanks' mayo (I'm guessing you'll have to do this quite a bit shanks cos you've made loads!) in any case all I ask is that you use approx 25ml per person per meal of oil to coat the potatoes whether you're roasting or dressing them0 -
arty I've put the nut butter in glass jars.
The apple curd, houmous and bean pate are in 'chinese takeaway' containers. Mainly because I'm far to messy to get the stuff in the 'tiny' hole at the top of a jar!0 -
hmmm.......i may need more storage thingies thenxxxxIn art as in love, instinct is enough
Anatole France
Things are beautiful if you love them
Jean Anouilh0 -
Month 1 Recipes :
Bread
Breakfasts
Porridge
Apple curd
Breakfast pancakes
Nut butter
Lunches
Tangy bean pate
Houmus
Lunchtime pate
Green pea soup
Pea and apple soup
Tomato oat biscuits
Mayo
Butternut squash risotto
Snacks
Boodle's biscuits
Orange flim-flam
Savoury bites
Carrot cake
Cheese balls
Cereal bars
Potato and onion soup
Dinners
Spanish Omelette
Carbonara
Delia's onion tart
Risi e bisi
Pizza
Chicken and onion pie
Bacon and onion steamed pudding
Chilli
Pasta Alfredo
Cottage pie
Bean curry
Pasta Amatriciana
Chicken with bubble and squeak and stuffing
Veggie burgers
in grey are the ones I need to update
Very up for being prodded if you need them sooner
shall I prioritise snacks next?
:hello:Jonathan 'Fergie' Fergus William, born 05/03/09, 7lb 4.4oz:hello:
Benjamin 'Kezzie' Kester Jacob, born 18/03/10, 7lb 5oz:)
cash neutral gifts 2011, value of purchased gifts/actual paid/amount earnt to cover it £67/£3.60/£0
january grocery challenge, feed 4 of us for £400 -
Do you have empty marg tubs? They'd work as well. I just couldn't find the lids for mine...I'm so organised!0
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allegra yes please to the second list, though is there a way we can show which have yet to have their finalised amounts added, cos I'm still working on it due to PC issues yesterday:eek: I have all the ones (I think) that you let me know I needed to sort by the weekend done tho
Great minds, Weezl - that's my next task, and I will edit the list post to show my findings, lol. Hark at me making myself sound all professional :rotfl:Actually, I think that might well be behind my sudden spurt of organising mania - I must be missing work :eek:
Arty, all my spreads are in glass jars except houmus which is in tupperware container. No rhyme or reason to it, I'm afraid, just what I happened to pull out of the cupboard this morning. Lunchtime pate is also in a plastic container, cos that went straight in the freezer as soon as it was cooled.
BTW, I am pleased to report that I have managed to do the morning's batch cooking without doing anything particularly amusing or having to redecorate the kitchen
The kettle did explode first thing, though, just to keep me on my toes, but that definitely wasn't my fault, it was rather elderly and we expected it to go at any moment. 0 -
I was wondering about baking the carrot cake in a roasting tin. It is one I use for tray bakes. is about 14 inches by 12 inches. Do you think that is too large for the amount of ingredients in the recipe?business mortgage £0))''(+ Barclay's business kitchen loan £0=Total paid off was £96105 PPI claimed and received £13527
'I had a black dog, his name was depression".0 -
Afternoon!
After making a not-at-all-frugal guinness and chocolate cake I have made a 1/2 batch of the no knead bread and the soup is now cooking away. I popped out to get bacon after I realised the potatoes we had would probably have killed someone, sealed in a plastic bag in the dark for a while they were a leeetle mouldy, eww!
Will be back later with more feedback! xGod is good, all the time
Do something that scares you every day
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