Weezl's phase 1- recipe testing and frugalisation- come one, come all!

boredofbeingathome

weezl74 wrote: »

Kester is not breech any more :D:D:D

And he is 3/5ths engaged!:eek: But that doesn't mean too much...

Good news Weezl.:D

HOWMUCH

Hello everyone home from work.
Weezl 3/5th is good he's up to about his ears into your pelvis, so he shouldn't go breech on you.

Fire_Fox

weezl74 wrote: »

I don't think I can do wedges and the salad with it if I add a stock cube firefox, sorry but is a v good suggestion taste-wise!

Whilst you're on, you were talking about omegas 3 and 6 which I haven't paid attention to at all yet

Could you do me a favour and have a glance over the currentish asda list and let me know what sources we do have on there if any :rotfl:

Sources of omega-6: Sunflower oil 60% O-6, pesto (contains sunflower oil), porridge oats 2.5% O-6, peanuts 15% O-6.
Sources of omega-3: Sunflower oil nil, pesto nil (contains sunflower oil), porridge oats 0.1% O-3, peanuts trace.

Butter spread is 12% polyunsaturates from vegetable oil but no indication of O-3/O-6 content on Asda website. :huh: I suspect there will be very little omega-3 in any of the animal products (meat, eggs, milk, cheese) as we are using battery products: the cows need to be grass fed and chickens seed fed rather than grain fed.

There are two key issues here - firstly to get a minimum requirement for omega-3 and secondly to get the right ratio of omega-6 to omega-3. You could swap rapeseed oil for the sunflower oil and pumpkin seeds for peanuts and improve matters, but this is going to blow the budget. In any case both are still much heavier on O6 than O3 and vegetarian sources of omega-3 are not well converted to a useable format (IIRC around 10%).

Other options are Goldenlay eggs (25p each, 150mg O-3), Granovita linseeds which would have to be ground (£2.98 for 500g, 28% O-3), LesKol cheese which is useless for cooking (£1 for 200g, 1.5% O-3), or oily fish. Glenryk pilchards in tomato sauce (65p for 425g, 2% O-3, 60% pilchards), wild pacific pink salmon (£1.55 for 418g, 1.5% O-3, 99% salmon), Smartprice sardines in tomato sauce (96p for 480g, 3% O-3, 70% sardines).

The benefits to canned fish are that it's ready cooked so quick for Shirley, a good source of protein and calcium, plus tomato sauce can count towards the five a day! :T Do we think Bob will expect meat twice a week, or will he accept meat once and fish once? Once we get onto the vegetarian plan I think we may need to switch the sunflower oil for rapeseed.

weezl74

many thanks to both firefox and twinkle for your thoughts on the omegas.:):A

Does anyone who has a family member who really would want meat twice a week, think that oily fish would be ok? What kind of meal would it need to be?

Fivenations

weezl74 wrote: »

ingredients and costings for pasta puttanesca- method to follow:

2 bags SP penne 66p
3 cans toms 99p
1 jar anchovy olives, roughly chopped 84p
120 ml Oil 9
Garlic
740g onion chopped 24.8p

8 portions 35.35p each

Wheezl

I've not ever seen onions in a Puttanesca sauce, supposedly first cooked by Roman ladies of leisure in between customers, not literally. Have you added them in as part of the daily veg count?

If you add chillies it becomes spaghetti al Arrabiata!

weezl74

Fivenations wrote: »

Wheezl

I've not ever seen onions in a Puttanesca sauce, supposedly first cooked by Roman ladies of leisure in between customers, not literally. Have you added them in as part of the daily veg count?

If you add chillies it becomes spaghetti al Arrabiata!

indeedy I added them for that very good reason

Well I couldn't possibly comment on what Shirley's job is, as long as she does the cooking

vandanfc

According to the FSA there is no "official" rda for omega 3/6. But the US seems to think that 3g per day is a good standard to follow.

http://www.which.co.uk/advice/omega-3/how-much-to-eat/index.jsp

holliegarson

Weezl - very glad baby kester isn't breech any more - one of mine was and it was so uncomfy and people kept hassling me to try scary sounding turning tricks - in the end I was rockpooling and bent over a rockpool which must have created a bit of space in there and she did a huge trun that nearly made me lose my balance - err - totally OT - apologies - just having a memory moment there!!

I am so excited by this project - it really is awesome. You are truly dedicated and inspirational - thank you.

I x

ceridwen

weezl74 wrote: »

sorry, it's everything of the current asda list in post 1, so it's this frozen Cauli bag:



and this mustard, unless I can lose 50p from somewhere and reinstate the colman's powder.

Thanks for that.

Decided to hazard a guess you meant a bag of frozen cauli. Went into SainsbuRys today for shopping - thinking "well broccoli and cauliflower are interchangeable in my book and I want an organic bit of either". Couldnt find organic in either of them - so as had to buy non-organic anyways I was tossing-up between Value Broccoli and frozen cauliflower. Decided to "get hung for sheep as a lamb" and bought the frozen cauliflower and that if I can manage to get something tasty with frozen veg then the recipe has gotta be a winner for anyone else (as I'm not keen on either the taste or texture of ready frozen vegetables). So - I'll stick that in the freezer for now and have a go shortly at that recipe. I'm summoning up my nerve at this moment (errr....and eating that cheese quiche for a 4th day in a row......:(). Mental note to self = make half quantities of Weezl's recipes in future - rather than sticking religiously to the quantities if nowt else...:)

So - I reckon that recipe might be the next one - as basically I like something/anything in cheese sauce - so we'll see..........

ceridwen

oldMcDonald wrote: »

weezl

1.8Kg ASDA Braeburn Apples by Weight (100g) 2.70

Do the apples have to be Braeburn? From memory, I *think* that a bag of Smart Price apples is 700g for 68p (I've looked on the website, but it doesn't say the weight - does anyone have a bag and could check this?)

If the above weight is correct for the SP apples then 3 bags would cost £2.04 and give you 300g extra apples (don't think that's much, maybe 1 or 2? but could be used in the carrot cake?) along with 66p left over (possibly for the Colemans?).

Sounds a good suggestion to me - bit of room for manoeuvre there:):T