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

weezl74

nomnomnom!

Now then, these snails.... Bit troubled by the line 'not all are edible':eek: Just my luck, I'll harvest the nations only toxic snails!

How do we know?

Ceridwen sweet of you to suggest that they'd've eaten chemicals in my neighbours garden. But I must confess to have gotten so fed up of losing precious crops that this year I did use the awful blue pellets of death! Will you still be my friend, oh thou pure and organic one?

Weezl x

cw18

ZoeGirl wrote: »

Busy cooking to use up milk ... sigh ...

not a problem I ever have !! Bought 14 pints last weekend, and had to go get another 14 on Thursday evening which may last until tomorrow -- and that's just the milk for hubby and 2 teenage sons. They have full-fat, whereas I use skimmed (and can manage a full week on a single pint) unless I have cereal when I use soya milk......

I remember reading on the last thread there are a couple of things Weezl won't give up (one being her real coffee)..... for me it's my soya spread and soya milk for cereal. Desperately trying to include other soya rich foods into my diet without a lot of success (the blokes can tell when I've used soya mince and don't like it) as I hate taking meds for more than a few days, and I read in a book (which my GP back up) that eating a soya rich diet can at least reduce - if not remove - the need for HRT. The main issue is you need to build the soya into your diet for some time before hitting 'the change' so I need to be putting it into action now

ceridwen

ZoeGirl wrote: »

Thanks for welcome everyone :P Would love to have a board like this overhere but only equivalent is a board you have to pay for ... which I think defeats the point, and probably isn't even as extreme anyway, as Weezl here, and I love extreme lol

Busy cooking to use up milk ... sigh ... making banana bran pancakes, trying to use up multiple things haha hope they turn out, :O).

Trying to think of any recipes I have and will have to post when I think of something!! Have a good day everyone...

ceridwen now sitting here thinking - "Where is 'over here' from which you come?". If we know the country - then we might have a few suggestions/hopes as to recipes we would like purlease......;)

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I was just looking over some Polish recipes from when I was a child. Dad was Polish, war etc we were so broke, you wouldn`t believe it but we ate so incredibly healthily. Sour milk (not pasturised so was full of good bacteria) and potatoes, thick pea soup, brawn from pigs head, bigos etc. We 7 children are still very healthy at 50-60. Bigos could be adapted for cheap food and pigs head (not for the squeamish) is about £2 and will do lots of meals

real old fashioned love story too. He met mum when billited in their house in the war. She was dutch and she followed him to the ends of the earth. Liverpool. He could not return to poland. Her family was very wealthy, servants, boarding school at 7 but lost all to nazis. Only enough left for a tiny little terraced and small shop in everton liverpool. 7 children, a yard . They survived and we children did well, are happy, healthy and all in first time marriages. Really really hard life for her and thats how I learnt, being the eldest girl

ceridwen

cw18 wrote: »

not a problem I ever have !! Bought 14 pints last weekend, and had to go get another 14 on Thursday evening which may last until tomorrow -- and that's just the milk for hubby and 2 teenage sons. They have full-fat, whereas I use skimmed (and can manage a full week on a single pint) unless I have cereal when I use soya milk......

I remember reading on the last thread there are a couple of things Weezl won't give up (one being her real coffee)..... for me it's my soya spread and soya milk for cereal. Desperately trying to include other soya rich foods into my diet without a lot of success (the blokes can tell when I've used soya mince and don't like it) as I hate taking meds for more than a few days, and I read in a book (which my GP back up) that eating a soya rich diet can at least reduce - if not remove - the need for HRT. The main issue is you need to build the soya into your diet for some time before hitting 'the change' so I need to be putting it into action now

Now...I knew I shoulda kept that article in yesterday's paper re soya (but you could try looking on the "Daily Mail" website for it - as I believe they keep the last 7 days worth now on there?). It was about soya and how foods based on soya (they quoted tofu specifically - but obviously it would apply to all soya-based food) is a bad idea even in quite moderate quantities if you are a "certain age" or older - as theres summat in it (cant remember) which exacerbates memory loss. I just recall making a mental note to myself to chuck out my soya foods when I got home (errrr....wonder why I forgot to do that? Thanks for the reminder). That article dashed my hopes of using my tofu up at the rate of just a couple of dishes per week even by the time I had finished reading it - and I was thinking "so much for anyone else's ideas of making cheap meals with soya mince - and what about the soya lecithin and soya goodness-knows-what-else that goes in processed food?"

(EDIT: think I need to go off and hide now - I've just mentioned being a Daily Mail reader - I think I might be en route to having a few things thrown at me.....but I do read the Independent and Guardian as well - to get at the "real" news more)

cw18

Weezl -- research request if/when you have time please :grinheart

Hubby needs to increase his potassium intake (he had problems with meds last year due to this keep dropping) and has been eating a banana (or two) a day since then -- but I'm not convinced that's the only/best source, and he's starting back on the meds again in the next 2 or 3 weeks. Doesn't matter if the items it's in are high fat/high calories, as he needs that kind of diet for medical reasons too !! (Would be nice if they're things like bananas he can snack on though, as I'm desperate to lose weight to help ease off a back condition :rolleyes2)

shaz_mum_of__2

Well hello weezlites old and new this threads romping away at the minute been busy with new greenhouse new raised bed tip runs etc etc...............

It's raining today so probably be a baking day having an experiment later pics to follow if successful

Question for WEEZL how do you do costings do you have a template or database or spreadsheet for workings out??

Shaz

cw18

Will try and remember to check that out tonight -- and ask my GP next time I have cause to go down!! Thanks for the pointer
(about to get ready to go out for the day... back about 5:30, just in time to make tea!)

ceridwen wrote: »

(EDIT: think I need to go off and hide now - I've just mentioned being a Daily Mail reader - I think I might be en route to having a few things thrown at me.....but I do read the Independent and Guardian as well - to get at the "real" news more)

That's the paper I tend to buy when I buy one -- but I only buy a paper when they have a CD or DVD that I fancy, as I don't actually read the papers :rolleyes: Hubby actually likes it when I want the disks, 'cos he gave up a daily paper (Mirror) 15 months ago when income nose-dived horribly almost over night -- but this way he gets a paper I've paid for from my 'spends' (and which keeps him busy a fair chunk of the day) and I add to my music or film collections........ not a bad bargain for 50p in my eyes

ceridwen

weezl74 wrote: »

nomnomnom!

Now then, these snails.... Bit troubled by the line 'not all are edible':eek: Just my luck, I'll harvest the nations only toxic snails!

How do we know?

Ceridwen sweet of you to suggest that they'd've eaten chemicals in my neighbours garden. But I must confess to have gotten so fed up of losing precious crops that this year I did use the awful blue pellets of death! Will you still be my friend, oh thou pure and organic one?

Weezl x

Yer knows I'm still your friend gal....even ceridwen has lapses...so I reckons I'll forgive 'ee - even tho' I spotted white rice in that there photo and then saw mention of those pellets!! I've turned a blind eye to that there sugar in recipes my lass to date.......I knows yer heart is in the right place....

Speaking of which....any further thoughts on our "discussions" ? But I knows you'll tell me when you aint so busy.....so I'll keep an eye on me email box.

love

ceridwen

x

(says ceridwen wondering if I should do three Hail Marys - as I had a lift in a car yesterday - whoops: one car ride to me this week! - I just couldnt face the thought of walking to local train station AND walking from train station t'other end AND walking goodness-knows-how-far round t'other town AND walking back again from train station my end...so I took a taxi t'other end to my destination.......ah! guilty! black mark!.......can I be excused on the grounds I didnt know where I was going t'other end and thought I might get lost?) Still shattered today anyways!

cw18

ISOM - found it here

Also found this from April