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

weezl74

Thanks moanymoany! No gelatin needed for me!

Newlywed I've just been doing some geeky maths and thinking about your DH's lunches...

80g protein in lunches, 30 each in 2 serves of chicken, 20 in the tuna (if chunks not flakes. Less if flakes)

Cheapest way to do this:

17.5p for the tuna
£1.10 for a sp skinless chicken breast raw, which you then cook for him.

£1.28 just for the protein component! That's without any rocket or the apples!


It occurs to me there are multiple ways of him getting this much protein in a low-fat way for cheaper. 100g lentils, 175g dryweight cous cous and 500g of yoghurt for example, makes the same protein, but a whole meal, ie you haven’t got to add all the other pricy ingredients he has with the chicken etc…

It could be: a tomato dahl served with couscous (lunch#1) and a mint raita also served with couscous, (lunch #2) and the rest of the yoghurt, with a drizzle of honey later or as a pudding (lunch#3)

That could be 92p for his total lunches then, rather than £1.28 just for the protein component!:money:

Just one possible way… But I’m sure there are more. What do you think he’d say?:D



Just blame me if you get a bad reaction, 'oh yes, I completely agree love, but my mad friend on MSA suggested...';)


Just read that you don't mind the lunches, so perhaps that was a fruitless bit of research!


Weezl x

newlywed

weezl74 wrote: »

Just read that you don't mind the lunches, so perhaps that was a fruitless bit of research!

Not fruitless at all - very interesting in fact. I don't think he'd go for it, even though he does accept that kidney beans/lentils have protein in

He thinks omelet doesn't have enough protein unless it has meat in it :rolleyes: when I use 5 eggs for the two of us for evening meal.

So definitely if I can get some high protein non meat elements in there for evening meals, then I can quietly cut down on his meat portions - Like I do with the lentils added to mince

Also, he has mentioned he would like "extra protein" in the day as he thinks he needs to increase this :rolleyes:

So anything cheaper that means he could increase his protein intake might sway him a little - maybe

newlywed

In fact, I'm scheming .... how much protein does 100g lentils have?

Maybe I could cut his chicken portion in half and make him a dhal with some chicken in - that way he gets meat....

the chicken I get ready cooked frozen chicken breast pieces from Aldi - £1.99 for 450g so I make that about 88p a day for the chicken

cw18

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

........ take a look at this thread - Easiyo or make your own?

Many thanks for that link Another thread for me to work through while I try to figure out where I put my Easiyo the last time I used it !!! (Have a feeling it could be in a chest of drawers that's jammed into the corner of a room behind a mountain of other stuff )

weezl74

100g red lentils (dry weight) contains 26g protein....;)

cw18

weezl74 wrote: »

We are both well after our piggy head and piggy brains meals/snacks of yesterday.:j

Glad to hear/see you're still fighting fit, and I applaude you for having been willing to try it as I always feel guilty if I let myself think about what we class as 'unwanted' produce that could be put to good use :T

moanymoany

Weezl, can you give the recipe (or the linky) for kalonji bread. It looks lovely on your blog. I intend to make the nettle stuff next week. I've spotted a super clump away from the road 5 mins walk away.

Where do you buy wholemeal flour at 55p? I've had probs getting cheap flour, I have found most wholemeal bread mixes can get away with no kneading. I use baking parchment to stip it sticking, often wondered if I could use it again. Even my non-stick tins stick!

I never see loaf tins in charity shops.

weezl74

oooh Newlywed and if you render all the fat out of pork skins, leaving crackling, that's an incredible 20g protein in a tiny 30g serving, and low fat 6% if you bake it well!

That could be free if you go for a pig's head (sorry:o) I mean you could get a cut like belly pork, make a normal dinner, long slow roast the skin, salt it, and another high protein snack for DH!

newlywed

weezl74 wrote: »

100g red lentils (dry weight) contains 26g protein....;)

so if I gave him 75g lentils with half the amount of chicken that should be about 35g protein - an increase in protein and food volume and a decrease in the budget...
Where's the dhal recipe? in your index (off to look in a moment).
Definitely trying that in the colder weather... Can you eat dhal cold?

Is there anything else high protein low cost that you can eat cold - other than the kidney beans in his tuna salad?

cw18

moanymoany wrote: »

I use baking parchment to stip it sticking, often wondered if I could use it again. Even my non-stick tins stick!

I never see loaf tins in charity shops.

Quality Save / Home Bargains had silicone ones in yesterday at £1.99 each. OK, so they were bright red -- but at least you wouldn't lose them in the kitchen :rotfl: They also had muffin trays and other types -- all bright red, and I think all £1.99 each. As I understand it, things shouldn't stick in these as much (and they're more flexible for prising things out if they do!)

I have a black one that came from Aldi a couple of years back, but haven't tried it with 'real' bread yet as I've always used my breadmaker. That's actually the next thing on my list to try (next week, with the no-knead recipe I think).