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

newlywed

weezl74 wrote: »

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!

ignoring the pig head comment.... how do you render the fat out of it? He always says skin on meat is bad because of all the fat and makes me cut it off (along with every trace of white fat) before cooking!! Although I roast chicken with it on and then eat some of it when I carve and he's not in the room to tell me off

weezl74

Hi moanymoany, here's the link for the post where I talked about how I made my kalonji bread

cw18

newlywed wrote: »

He always says skin on meat is bad because of all the fat and makes me cut it off (along with every trace of white fat) before cooking!!

Afraid I'm with your DH on this one..... if you cook it with the fat on then the rest of the meat actually acquires a higher fat content as it seeps through.

I've even been known to skin chicken before cooking, as the skin holds the fat into the bird instead of letting it drain out. I then tend to let the juices cool before skimming the fat off and saving the stock. I always skin chicken portions that I'm using for a casserole, as it's not possible to remove the fat later.....

The only way I can think of rendering would be to cut off the skin and fat, put it on a mesh tray (over a solid one) and baking it so that the fat drains through as it cooks.

weezl74

newlywed wrote: »

ignoring the pig head comment.... how do you render the fat out of it? He always says skin on meat is bad because of all the fat and makes me cut it off (along with every trace of white fat) before cooking!! Although I roast chicken with it on and then eat some of it when I carve and he's not in the room to tell me off

hiya,

I think there are a few ways, long cooking over a rack to drain it away works, as does, strangely, deep fat frying them! The oil dissolves out into the cooking oil, leaving the more robust cellular protein material. Drained onto kitchen paper, it's a pretty healthy snack. One site I found said that a study of pork rinds:

found that a half-ounce serving (about a handful) of rinds has 80 calories, 9 grams of protein and 5 grams of fat. That is more protein and less fat than in a half-ounce of shelled peanuts. Rinds are not loaded with cholesterol, coming in at less than 20 milligrams a half-ounce, as against 200 milligrams in an egg.

sorry Cw18 I crossed posts with you!

shaz_mum_of__2

Poundland has proper bread loaf tins - a bit bigger than a 2lb loaf tins

The silicone baking stuff in Home Bargains works fine but i find you still need a baking tray underneath because of the floppiness;)

If you get a bread maker (freecycle?) you wouldnt need a tin:D

I use the silicone for soap moulds on th eplus side you can squeeze them into cupboards better than metal

Been back and bought 10 boxes bisquick

made this with it yesterday it was yummy

http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/recipe.aspx?recipeID=8598&Source=SearchResultPage

I did weigh the ingredients as i went along if a geeky 50p lady would be interested in doing a costing:D




200g bisquick (40p per 500g)
150g soft brown sugar
90g sultanas
50g chopped mixed nuts
125ml water
5g coffee granules
100g soft spread
1 egg (mine cost 10p)


Thanks in advance


Shaz - off to eat one now .........nom...nom.....nom

cw18

weezl74 wrote: »

sorry Cw18 I crossed posts with you!

cross away

always nice to know that I'm thinking along the right lines, and would never have thought of deep frying as an alternative

weezl74

the geeky 50p lady is up for it, back in a bit with results!

Newlywed, another possibility, 24g of protein in a 32p tub of this:

cw18

had a look in Tesco for Bisquick this morning (purely out of interest), but our local one didn't have any at all !!!

newlywed

Ok what else is low fat, high protein?

Are green lentils the same protein as red lentils? (just found your spiced lentils and sun dried tomato recipe which could be right up his street)

newlywed

weezl74 wrote: »

Newlywed, another possibility, 24g of protein in a 32p tub of this:

Hmmm. have to find out if he likes this or not - he likes yoghurt. My sister used to eat this with raw mushrooms - ugh. I try and avoid dairy so have never bought the stuff so would never have thought of it