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

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2.5 kg elderberries
900 ml water
Sugar
Place the elderberries with the water in a pan, bring to the boil and simmer for 40 minutes. Strain overnight through a jelly bag. Measure the juice and alllow 200 g of sugar for each 600 ml of juice. Bring back to the boil, add sugar then bring to the boil again and simmer for 20 minutes. Pour into sterilized bottles.

Elderberry Rob
Crush the juice from 3kg ripe berries and to this add 500 g sugar and mix well. Simmer until the mixture reduces down to the consistency of honey. Makes a winter drink when adding 1 part cordial to 2 parts of boiling water. This is used to relieve coughs.
Cheers
jennie

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Stevia
That's a shame, I have it in my herb garden and use it freely. Had not heard that it has any health issues - particularly when you consider what its a substitute for.

ceridwen

STEVIA

I've just recalled - the sugar industry apparently have very strong lobbyists (I watched a film a bit back about just HOW strong their lobbyists are) - so that might be summat to do with it. I know I've been out looking for some stevia to buy before now - and couldnt find any.

Right - found links (so judge for yourselves):

http://www.stevia.net/

http://www.cspinet.org/nah/4_00/stevia.html

edit: as regards any possible health hazards from stevia (not convinced!) - anyone read the book "Pure White and Deadly" about JUST how bad the health hazards of sugar are.

Have now remembered re that film about the sugar lobby - I put a link to it somewheres on Weezl's first thread for anyone wanting to watch it - "interesting" watching as I recall.....

Penelope_Penguin

Hi folks :beer: I've had to delet a few posts as they were asking for and giving medical advice. Please see this post for clarification (it's in a sticky at the top of Old Style ).

Penny. x

ceridwen

Have been googling again - having read the "post" about someone growing their own stevia and had a Eureka moment - "Ah - think I could figure out how to make my own sugar substitute". So...could be an experiment coming up some time from the two links below:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/727325.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_2083187_make-stevia-extract.html

EDIT: Just sent those 2 links to my "private" blog...right....now to look up where I can buy stevia plants.....HEH!!! Now what was that "signature" I used to have about lateral thinking.....I've got a dehydrator anyways I could use for drying some plants....

Now...what is:
- "pure USP alcohol"
and
- "grain alcohol" purlease?

MRSMCAWBER

Hi everyone

Just a quick one before i go blackberrying... I always remember my gran going on about sweet cicely...used to sweeten things...found a link..not sure if its of any use? (heck my head retains all sorts of stuff i never think i will need )lol
http://www.greenchronicle.com/gardening/sweet_cicely_herb.htm

weezl74

ceridwen wrote: »

Well...personally speaking - I'd be having a bit more than that....even without a "Fergus" on board:D .

Errr.....was that homemade muesli our Weezl perchance?

yep, HM muesli t'was indeedy. Would you like my recipe?

Oh I'll post it anyway, people can always skim past!!!

I usually mix the following up in a big ikea storage jar:

1 kg SP porridge oats- 56p
300-500 g sultanas (depending how sweet we want it!) 30-50p
100g sunflower seeds - 22p
150g (optional) coconut, from big 2kg bag from Asian supermarket - 10p

7.86p per 75g serving

mix all together. Enjoy with milk!

Mr Weezl has the asda SP swiss style muesli with water rather than milk at 6p a bowl, cos it's got something in it which goes quite creamy just with water.

I thought I should have one with milk, cos my calcium need has risen.

I'm interested in what you and ISOM have said about mebbee upping the intake. That was a lowish energy day and works out at around 1800 calories. I am hungry more than usual, but all my internet trawling seems very keen to warn pregnant women not to eat for 2. Instead some claim that the increased need is only 200 calories extra a day (glass of milk, or 2 slices toast) and only in the last trimester (end of november!) :eek:. I've definately been exceeding this...

Got weighed at my scan and was a stone heavier than pre pregnancy. Was surprised. Mid wife told me to take off my coat (inherited from ISOM's mum!) and it went down by 3 kilos:D, but still more than I thought, when the foetus only weighs a few ounces!!!!!:eek:

So I've been trying to be moderate, and make sure that what I do have contains as much nutritional punch with fewer calories as I can....:p

That's my current thinks anyway. Open to further debate.

Which posts were deleted by the way, did anyone notice? Was it stevia, mouth ulcers, salmonella, or sommat else?:D

I guess that's a by-product of this thread having quite a strong 'health' focus. It's hard to draw the line between health conscious researching, and medical advice. Sorry Penny, pink and squeaky!:o

Hope you're all having a lovely day, I shall carry on catching up...


Love Weezl x

Plum_Pie

Oooh Weezl, I bought a flat in a Victorian house about 18 months ago. The previous occupants had little interest in maintenance (which is why I could afford it!). I was reminded by your pics because getting the bathoroom and kitchen retiled was one of the first jobs. (I paid someone to do it, but then I can't draw a straight line with a ruler!) It's finally starting to look good which is so satisfying.

My favourite piece of furniture is a small oval dining table which my great-grandmother bought - I've been looking for some chairs worthy of it for a while and I was starting to despair especially as I have a lot of bills to pay this month, but on Saturday I found some in a local antique shop for.. £75! You can't buy 4 new wooden chairs for that amount! Admittedly 1 needs tightening up a lot, 1 needs tightening up slightly (I will arrange this soon, otherwise they'll break!) and in a magical fairy land where I'm not counting the price of lentils, I'd love to have the seat pads recovered from the current shiny cream fabric to a very dark green, but I am one happy frugalista.

An anecdote about pregnancy eating. My mum became a vegetarian at 18 and got pregnant at the age of 31 and again at 33. During the final trimester, my grandmother had to move in with my parents, in order to provide my mum with sufficient ROAST DINNERS! So hard to imagine her tucking into a plate of beef or lamb! I've never seen her eat meat! (She lost all her baby weight both times within a year.)

cw18

weezl74 wrote: »

Which posts were deleted by the way, did anyone notice? Was it stevia, mouth ulcers, salmonella, or sommat else?:D

I guess that's a by-product of this thread having quite a strong 'health' focus. It's hard to draw the line between health conscious researching, and medical advice. Sorry Penny, pink and squeaky!:o

Just had a quick scan, and I think ithe mouth ulcers posts seem to have gone! Whoops! That means one of them was me :eek:

I hadn't thought of it in those terms, so must think more before I post in future (And remember which forum I'm on, as it wouldn't have been a problem on another -- but "rules is rules" and I must get used to two different sets!)

weezl74

Plum_Pie wrote: »

Oooh Weezl, I bought a flat in a Victorian house about 18 months ago. The previous occupants had little interest in maintenance (which is why I could afford it!). I was reminded by your pics because getting the bathoroom and kitchen retiled was one of the first jobs. (I paid someone to do it, but then I can't draw a straight line with a ruler!) It's finally starting to look good which is so satisfying.

Pictures please!

Plum_Pie wrote: »

My favourite piece of furniture is a small oval dining table which my great-grandmother bought - I've been looking for some chairs worthy of it for a while and I was starting to despair especially as I have a lot of bills to pay this month, but on Saturday I found some in a local antique shop for.. £75! You can't buy 4 new wooden chairs for that amount! Admittedly 1 needs tightening up a lot, 1 needs tightening up slightly (I will arrange this soon, otherwise they'll break!) and in a magical fairy land where I'm not counting the price of lentils, I'd love to have the seat pads recovered from the current shiny cream fabric to a very dark green, but I am one happy frugalista.

The other really good thing is that your choice is really green, because Ikea won't have had to strip a poor little forest for your chairs! :T

Plum_Pie wrote: »

An anecdote about pregnancy eating. My mum became a vegetarian at 18 and got pregnant at the age of 31 and again at 33. During the final trimester, my grandmother had to move in with my parents, in order to provide my mum with sufficient ROAST DINNERS! So hard to imagine her tucking into a plate of beef or lamb! I've never seen her eat meat! (She lost all her baby weight both times within a year.)

:rotfl:how funny! I don't think Fergus wants to be mostly veggie either!
I think a year is a good timescale to allow myself. I seem to have lots of friends who are back at their pre pregnancy weight (or lower) within 5-6 weeks, and still breast feeding, which while gorgeous and admirable feels like it might not leave them with the resources to feed.... Perhaps I'm just letting myself off a hook of (self generated) pressure to be a 'yummy mummy'!!!!

the quest for a frugal baby goes on...:D

I am aquiring lots of hand me downs, and looking into real nappies....:T

Watch this space...;)

Love weezl x