50p a day til christmas, healthily?!-Weezl's next challenge (part 2)

weezl74

BASHFUL wrote: »

hi all!!! I think I am nesting as have emptied all my kitchen cupboards and sorting them out!!! Just found 4 bags of wholemeal flour that went off in January, will they be ok, and if so for how long do we think? Any ideas what to do with them as OH no longer likes the no knead bread :-(

OOOOOh that's a good sign bashful!:T:T:T Hope all goes well and a lovely easy short labour for you. Are you labouring at home or midwife led or consultant led?

newlywed

weezl74 wrote: »

Fedupandskint, do you think you HAVE to skin the butterbeans? Sounds like it fits our lifestyle well apart from that one slightly faffy stage! Are the skins a bit tough and leathery?

I've done a butterbean soup recipe from good food and it says skin them. I've done it both with the faffing about skinning and without.

If you soak them overnight, it isn't too difficult to skin them, just boring and takes a while.

If you don't bother then if the soup is to be liquidized (mine was) then you do get a slightly funny texture from the bits of skin that weren't quite blitzed.

Still completely edible, just slightly different texture

I prefer the soup with them skinned but it was such a faffing about job I can't be bothered to make the soup properly again :rolleyes:



Just looking back for the boiled cake recipe....

weezl74

hiya newlywed! are you still growing stuff on window ledges?

popped back to give a dahl update, with today's prices:

350g red lentils
20g jeera (cumin) seeds
750g onions chopped (I did chop these myself isom, but they made fergie's eyes go red!:o)
salt and pepper, garlic if desired

bung all of the above and at least 3-4 pints of water or stock into slo-cooker til lentils are all 'dispersed'...

15 pence and 220 cals per portion (Shaz that's 3 points per portion, you could have it with bread for a low point evening meal?)

shaz_mum_of__2

weezl74 wrote: »

he is 6 ft 3. Fergus is 1 ft 9. Most boys out grow their daddies,

and mummys too.........

my eldest is 6ft 4 and the army is making him grow more......:eek:

Youngest aged 8 is up to my shoulders and i am 5ft 9 :rolleyes:

thanks for the info where did you find the formula ??

Shaz

Yategirl

what do you eat with dahl? it sounds yummy but I know dh would whinge unless he had it with something meaty(!)

newlywed

weezl74 wrote: »

hiya newlywed! are you still growing stuff on window ledges?

hiya, congrats on the safe arrival of the bubba

erm growing stuff? no - they all went brown and limp and very ill looking

Planning some patio pots in the garden and keep hinting to OH that I want raised beds but nothing yet

little_miss_moneysaver_3

Afternoon all,

Just a quick post to say I made the boiled fruit cake(s) today. Just tested one and it is yummy. :dance:

Weezl thank you for the recipe. Although doubtful i'll be getting 16 slices from one.

Also while i'm here, your recipe for the sandwich filling at the start of the thread. How do you keep them. I mean do they last in the fridge or do you freeze some of it?

weezl74

little_miss_moneysaver wrote: »

Afternoon all,

Just a quick post to say I made the boiled fruit cake(s) today. Just tested one and it is yummy. :dance:

Weezl thank you for the recipe. Although doubtful i'll be getting 16 slices from one.

Also while i'm here, your recipe for the sandwich filling at the start of the thread. How do you keep them. I mean do they last in the fridge or do you freeze some of it?

Glad you liked the cake

I often make them up into 2 loaves worth of sandwiches and then freeze the sarnies. One defrosts in a morning in DH's lunchbox at work

Sian_the_Green

So Weezl, now that you have so much time off how about writing that book...

This one looks pretty good but I am sure they are nothing compared to your endeavours and it would have a whole new audience with the pregnant/new mums and dads market go on, go on, go on
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375752250?ie=UTF8&!!!!!willemigh-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375752250#

shaz_mum_of__2

Thanks for the update on the dhal

the saag aloo was nice but i wasn't keen on the texture might try the fresh spinach next time

I would have the dhal with rice but the ww large portion for 3pts is 150g cooked weight i can have 300g of spuds for that and be full after...........

For anyone else doing ww have you seen this blog



http://www.free webs.com/noreenblackett/

you will need to copy and paste and delete the space between free and webs the thread keeps blanking the address out
be warned the ladies biography is sad

jacket spuds with prawns tonight with fat free coleslaw and salad leaves from the garden.


Shaz

who is having poached egg and fat free chips tommorow....yummy