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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
    Allegra Posts: 1,517 Forumite
    edited 28 June 2010 at 1:07PM
    This covers 7 days of food at the start of the planner - Week 1 + the Monday of Week 2

    Bread & Snacks:
    Bread - 2 batches
    Carrot cake - 1
    Savoury scones - 1 batch
    Raisin scones - 1 batch
    Savoury bites - 1 batch

    Breakfasts & lunches:
    Houmus - 1 batch (eaten at 2 meals)
    Apple Curd - 1 batch (eaten at 2 meals)
    Nut Butter - 1 batch (eaten once)
    Bean pate - 1 batch (eaten twice)
    Porridge (4 times)
    Pancakes
    Pea & Apple Soup
    Potato & Onion Soup

    Dinners:
    Spanish Omelette
    Carbonara
    Onion tart
    Risi e bisi
    Pizza (1/3 of a batch)
    Chicke & Onion Pie
    Bacon & Onion Pudding


    Shopping list:

    Fresh
    800g x Butternut Squash by Weight (100g) - 160g used £0.80
    2 x Brown Onions (2Kg) - 2920 g used £1.42
    1x White Potatoes (2.5Kg) - 2.2 kg used £0.78
    2x Carrots (1Kg) - 1280g used £1.96
    1 x Oranges (6) - 1 used £0.67
    1 x Lemons (7) - 1 used £0.87
    1.6Kg x Bramley Cooking Apples by Weight (100g) -1.3 kg used £2.40

    Meat, fish & poultry
    1 x Smartprice Whole Medium Chicken (Approx 1Kg) £1.98
    1 x Smartprice Smoked Cooking Bacon Pieces (500g) - 385g used £1.13

    Dairy
    1 x Whole Fresh Milk 6 Pints (3.41L) £2.25
    1 x Cooks Value Medium Eggs (30) - 10 used £2.98
    1 x Seriously Strong Cheddar (400g) - 325g used £2.00
    1 x Grana Padano (200g) £2.26
    2 x Lard (250g) - 290g used £0.56

    Tins, Jars & Cooking
    2 x Vegetable Oil (3L) -1245ml used £5.00
    1x Colman’s Mustard Powder (57g) £0.90
    1 x Rajah Chilli Powder (100g) £0.49
    1 x Rajah Garam Masala (100g) £0.62
    1 x Rajah Garlic Powder (100g) £0.62
    2 x Smartprice Peeled Plum Tomatoes in Tomato Juice (400g) £0.62
    1 x Tomato Puree (142g) - 70g used £0.25
    1 x Smartprice Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce (420g) £0.29
    1 x smart price malt vinegar £0.13

    Packets & Cereals
    1 x Smartprice Pasta Shapes (500g) - 400g used £0.32
    2 x Smartprice Self Raising Flour (1.5Kg) - 1760g used £0.84
    3 x Leo Dried Peas with Steeping Tablet (250g) - 600g used £0.87
    1 x Long Grain Rice (1Kg) -400g used £0.73
    1 x Thomas Allinson Dried Active Yeast (125g) £0.64
    3 x Strong White Bread Flour (1.5Kg) - 3.5 kg used £1.80
    2 x Silver Spoon Granulated Sugar (1Kg) - 315 g used £1.50
    1 x OXO Stock Cubes Chicken (6x6g) KALLO Organic £0.95
    1x Pumpkin Seeds (150g) - 150g used £0.99
    1 x Chick Peas (500g) -260g used £0.93
    2 x Smartprice Salted Peanuts (200g) £0.46
    1x Ready Oats (750g) - 655 g used £1.32
    1x Smartprice Porridge Oats (1Kg) - 440g used £0.57
    2 x Smartprice Raisins (500g) - 830g used £1.28


    Frozen
    1 x Smartprice Peas (907g) - 320g used £0.76

    Drinks
    1 x Smartprice Tea Bags (80 per pack - 250g) £0.28



    TOTAL £44.25
  • Lesley_Gaye
    Lesley_Gaye Posts: 1,045 Forumite
    I'm here, but can't concentrate yet - Federer is 2 sets down and may lose the 3rd to go out in the first round!!!! Back in a bit
  • Lesley_Gaye
    Lesley_Gaye Posts: 1,045 Forumite
    weezl74 wrote: »
    question for anyone who's around:

    if we publish an 'absolute basics shopping list which meats health criteria for absolute minimum cash' leaving people the extra money to spend as they will, is this a genuine good bonus?

    Or would people feel like, well, yes but what on earth can I cook with it?

    and would the extra money just go on wine? (I have no problem with wine, :Dbut if it would then I'll have to up the amout of F and V in the bare minimums list to counteract the effects of the wine IYSWIM?)

    Edit: sorry I'm not expressing this very well :)

    I mean if kitty/shirl had met the barest of minimums for £74 a month or just 60p per person per day, is this a helpful list to give and does it have value on our website?

    I think you would need to be a very expert fisher indeed to be able to use a list without also having a list of dishes you could cook with it. They would need, after all, to use up everything, so need to be able to work that out
  • weezl74
    weezl74 Posts: 8,701 Forumite
    edited 21 June 2010 at 4:18PM
    Lesley_Gaye wrote: »
    I think you would need to be a very expert fisher indeed to be able to use a list without also having a list of dishes you could cook with it. They would need, after all, to use up everything, so need to be able to work that out
    indeed :)

    am still here if you are wimbledon free with any excel energy!

    eta that last sentence has the wombles playing in my head now

    :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 £40
  • Lesley_Gaye
    Lesley_Gaye Posts: 1,045 Forumite
    weezl74 wrote: »
    indeed :)

    am still here if you are wimbledon free with any excel energy!

    eta that last sentence has the wombles playing in my head now

    Federer has it pretty much sewn up now, so shall we go for it m'dear?
  • weezl74
    weezl74 Posts: 8,701 Forumite
    Lesley_Gaye wrote: »
    Federer has it pretty much sewn up now, so shall we go for it m'dear?
    facebook chat box, normal chatbox or on here?

    Whatever works for you lovely lesley!

    :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 £40
  • Lesley_Gaye
    Lesley_Gaye Posts: 1,045 Forumite
    weezl74 wrote: »
    facebook chat box, normal chatbox or on here?

    Whatever works for you lovely lesley!

    don't mind, whatever works

    I've sent an MSN msg, but you're offline at the moment

    what would you like me to look at?

    and Yay for Federer, I feel quite emotionally drained now!
  • weezl74
    weezl74 Posts: 8,701 Forumite
    Lesley_Gaye wrote: »
    don't mind, whatever works

    I've sent an MSN msg, but you're offline at the moment

    what would you like me to look at?

    and Yay for Federer, I feel quite emotionally drained now!
    yours says you're offline too! I sent you one :)

    :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 £40
  • artybear
    artybear Posts: 978 Forumite
    edited 21 June 2010 at 5:34PM
    SPOILER ALERT


    Allegra wrote: »
    I'm afraid that did not work for me at all. (If anyone's not seen it yet, look away now - SPOILERS !).

    It had the same effect, in fact, as when they killed off Ianto in the last series of Torchwood - over the top, unnecessary, done purely to shock. I spent all the rest of that brief season of Torchwood waiting for Jack to do something, go back in time and make it unhappen - and I'll probably spend the finale totally unable to concentrate on the rest of the action while waiting for the Doctor to go back and do the same for Amy. Oh, and he has to make the Tardis explosion unhappen, too. But he has to get the hell out of Pandorica first.

    They gonna have to pull out a helluva lot of rabbits out of a hat next episode. Overwrought, I felt :(


    Have watched it now.

    I dont think Amy will be dead, so I think he will go back in time and save her. I dont have the emotional connection with her just yet whereas I sobbed when Billie Piper/Catherine Tate left. He's just not quite David Tennant is he?:(
    In art as in love, instinct is enough
    Anatole France

    Things are beautiful if you love them
    Jean Anouilh
  • Allegra
    Allegra Posts: 1,517 Forumite
    The shopping list in this post is now complete. Weezl, I'm afraid I hit a few snags though - ASDA in my area do not do "ethnic" spices and pulses, so I had to substitute the nearest equivalent to get an idea of the prices. The substitutes on the list are in red.
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