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

weezl74

Hi there,

I wrote a bit in the last thread, about the importance of eating your colours (not necessarily every day!) in your 5 a day.

here's the link!

eating your colours

Although some researchers think we should eat more than 5 a day, the general concensus seems to be that as long as we have enough of our vitamins (in the 5, usually- unless you tried to make it up entirely of cucumber!) and our antioxidants (from the different colour groups) then this is plenty for most people.

I thought I'd work out a couple of ways that the 5 different colours a day can be comprised thriftily:

raisins - 2.2p
3.92 mushy peas from frozen
3.8p 1/5th can tomatoes
6.72 onions
9.45 orange juice

26p for all your colours. There are 2 cheaper ways, which is to use red lentils as your yellow/orange food group, 2p per one of your 5 a day, or to use tinned or frozen sweetcorn, 4p for 1 of your 5 a day.

So the thriftiest way at the moment, without growing your own, for the optimally healthy 5 colours a day, is 19p!

love weezl x

ceridwen

Now I just had to nip back and post this link specially for our Weezl:

http://nemeton.blogspot.com/

the 4 July entry entitled "Care of your geek":D :rotfl:

'Course...there's also ISOM's method - feed sumptuous meal complete with champagne....:D

cw18

Weezl - sorry to be a pain, but I've lost the link to the site you use to work out nutritional contents of meals !!! Could you please post again, as I'd like to work out what our evening meal's like now I've got it prepped and costed

weezl74

Hi Cw18,:D

I usually use a combination of recipecal: here,
and my own spreadsheet which calculates the percentage of your rda that the recipe gives you.

PM me if you'd like me to send you the spreadsheet!

Ceridwen, I did the geek test, and I only have 'geekish tendencies' rather than a full blown condition! Goodness only knows what the rest of them are like :rotfl::rotfl:

Penelope_Penguin

In_Search_Of_Me wrote: »

PS Can I report PP's sggy as an offensive? I do believe that there may be some Hugh cue jumping going on here. If he ever gets DIVORCED he is mine I believe..I loved him since the one where he stripped off & went fishing for sommat...little wobbly bottom running to the sea....ahh happy days!

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Shame on you all - I thought this thread had a large proportion of Welshies Do you think my sig's a spelling mistake :rolleyes: It's not the lovely Mr F-W, but the even lovlier Mr Edwards :happyhear For those of you who want to fight over this, I have a claim going back more than 2 years, and photographic evidence :cool:

Back on topic - the garden is bursting with produce. I've picked lettuce, spicy leaves, courgettes, peas, rhubarb, beans, basil, coriander and mint. The toamatoes are starting to redden :T the sweetcorn has tassels :T and I have tiny cucumbers :T So lunch was free salad from the garden, HM bread, and cheese. Free supper tonight, in exchange for a bottle of wine (from the entertainment budget ) and sparking wit and repartee from me and Mr Penguin :T

Have a great day, Penny. x

shaz_mum_of__2

I've just seen some baby piggies..........aahh

Been to get some eggs from next village(farm gate gone up to £3.50 but got 6 extra cos some were small so about 10p each)

The lady has new piggies (destined for the freezer i might add) they were so cute if a bit smelly

The chicks i held last time (about 3 weeks ago) have grown so much i want some and she breeds rare breeds too???

Shaz

cw18

am deffo doing a version of ISOM's pasta tonight -- have already started to pull everything together.

for four of us I'm using

300g dried fusilli (£2.97/3kg, Mr T) = 30p
150g creamed spinach (8 packs for £1, local freezer shop) = 12.5p
200g bacon, finely chopped and fried in v. small qty olive oil (£1.55/400g, Lidl) = 77.5p
250g chestnut mushrooms, thinly slice and quickly cooked in v. small qty olive oil to remove some of the liquid from them (Lidl) = 41p
garlic (34p for 4 bulbs, Lidl) = 1p ?
black pepper = negligble
olive oil = negligble (I really did use very little, and have enough in to keep me going for years at that rate!!!!)
63g mature cheddar (£5.46/kg, Mr A) = 34.5p
4 eggs (99p for 10, Aldi - 'cos Lidl out of stock at 97p for 10!) = 39.5p

Total cost = £2.36 (or about 59p each)

If I were doing this to my own personal taste I'd reduce the amount of bacon. I'd also omit the eggs which I had planned to poach and put on top of the rest of the meal as I serve (but can't find my poacher, and now realise that I've not seen since a house move in 2002!, so may have to hard boil and chop through) -- but hubby is already pulling faces at the spinach and how little bacon is going into it, so this is a pacifier :rolleyes:


Just used the link from Weezl to try and do some nutritinal calculations -- but had a job finding some of the ingredients. Couldn't find fusilli, so used spaghetti, and couldn't find my creamed spinach (not that I expected to) but did find a baby food version so threw that in instead

So the total meal (for all 4 portions) reads as

Energy 1703.64 Cal
Protein 77.347 g
Carbohydrates 30.632 g
Fats 142.833 g
of which
Polyunsaturates 15.013 g
Monosaturates 60.714 g
Saturates 51.928 g
Cholesterol 1055.65 mg


which means per portion
Energy = 425.91 cals
Protein = 19.337g
Carbohydrates = 7.658g
Fats = 35.71g
of which
Polyunsaturates = 3.753g
Monosaturates = 15.179g
Saturates = 12.982g
Cholesterol = 263.913mg




If I drop the eggs it comes down to

Energy 1409.64 Cal
Protein 52.187 g
Carbohydrates 29.092 g
Fats 122.953 g
of which
Polyunsaturates 12.285 g
Monosaturates 53.094 g
Saturates 45.73 g
Cholesterol 209.65 mg

so each portion would be
Energy = 352.41cals
Protein = 13.047g
Carbohydrates = 7.273g
Fats = 30.738g
of which
Polyunsaturates = 3.071g
Monosaturates = 13.274g
Saturates = 11.433g
Cholesterol = 52.413mg



Think I'll be having mine without an egg then, as otherwise it's far too many of my daily calories (need to lose weight due to help alleviate back problems) and quite a chunk of my 22.5-40g daily protein requirement...... not to mention the cholesterol :eek:

shaz_mum_of__2

Need some advice on frozen yoghurt ice cream thingy

Does frozen yoghurt need churning?? found 2 recipes one says yes one says no??

I know cream doesn't as there are no water crystals to break up

any clues??

I want to use the frozen tropical fruit mix i bought yesterday any ideas on cream/yoghurt to fruit quantities too

Shaz

cw18

The frozen yoghurt recipe from Weezl says to take out and stir after 2 hours...... I did this, but am finding it hard to serve from an old ice-cream container. Need to find a load of small ones and split into individual servings at the 2 hour point next time me thinks

elona

DD (22) is going back to oxford tonight but is so impressed with my new recipes (from here) she is taking some lentil pate, houmous and a quarter of a home baked French loaf with her!

Just dashing off in a minute - big hug and thanks!!!