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

grandma247

ceridwen wrote: »

Quick thought - to the poster who complains her hubbie eats the ingredients she has set aside in the fridge for the evening meal

Had you thought of putting "reserved" ingredients into a tupperware (or similar) box or two - labelled "DINNER" (that way it would be immediately apparent that those ingredients werent "available" for snacking). Even better - if you have a storage container or two that isnt see-through (so hubbie would have to physically open any container to see what is inside it - rather than spotting at a quick glance that a titbit that he fancied was inside it)?

HTH

Cheese used to be a problem but it stopped when I started wrapping it in foil and hiding it right at the back of the fridge.

homegrown_life

Just throwing in another thought about the Pure spread that I mentioned earlier in the thread. Per 10g of the spread the sunflower variety provides 0.4g of omega 3 and 2.6g of Omega 6. I'm not sure if this is helpful or not? Maybe for the veggie or vegan plans though

Take care Weezl!

Kaz2904

ceridwen wrote: »

Had you thought of putting "reserved" ingredients into a tupperware (or similar) box or two - labelled "DINNER" (that way it would be immediately apparent that those ingredients werent "available" for snacking). Even better - if you have a storage container or two that isnt see-through (so hubbie would have to physically open any container to see what is inside it - rather than spotting at a quick glance that a titbit that he fancied was inside it)?

HTH

Threats of murder don't work! We can have a discussion in the morning about what's for tea and me specifically say DON'T EAT XYZ and he'll still have eaten it. I hide stuff and he still finds it. It's almost as though he has a built in radar to know what I need for tea so he goes straight to that and eats it!
I think it's part of him hating a meal plan so he does whatever possible to scupper it. He does all the shopping now as I can't keep him away from asda so I just cook with what's in. It makes it very hard to plan anything. I will need to go to the supermarket or grocers (depends on the snow :eek:) to get veggies today. When I was looking for the veg last night I couldn't find them.

nopot2pin

weezl74 wrote: »

Awww potty, it sounds like it's proving tricky!

I'm very happy to leave it to be your decision. No-one else can possibly know the time or trouble these things take, and I'm sure it's more than you have let on! Do please at any point feel free to suggest any other method which you think might work, but no pressure for it to be you who does that work IYSWIM?

For example, but this is possibly not practical, if we just had one recipe per person who was willing to collate the opinions, and they just did a search of this thread for the word 'falafel' and they copy and pasted the feedback into one bigger post- or something like that? I dunno, would that help at all?

xxx

I dont mind doing the survey's Weezl
Once I start composing them, they dont take that long to do, to be honest.... and I think the glitches are ironed out now

I just didn't want the overkill of a survey for every single recipe
And I have no clue as to compile the details otherwise

I will crack on with them, meantime, until, everyone is throughly bored with them ;)

tessasmum

Just wanted to say that I think this is a fab thread and I tried the carrot cake last night - it went down a treat with the family so I'll be adding that to the family recipe folder. Thanks to everyone who is contributing to this great work!

boredofbeingathome

Kaz2904 wrote: »

Threats of murder don't work! We can have a discussion in the morning about what's for tea and me specifically say DON'T EAT XYZ and he'll still have eaten it. I hide stuff and he still finds it. It's almost as though he has a built in radar to know what I need for tea so he goes straight to that and eats it!
I think it's part of him hating a meal plan so he does whatever possible to scupper it. He does all the shopping now as I can't keep him away from asda so I just cook with what's in. It makes it very hard to plan anything. I will need to go to the supermarket or grocers (depends on the snow :eek:) to get veggies today. When I was looking for the veg last night I couldn't find them.

I have been having a think about this and maybe it worth having a baking batch of some goodies- so a batch of scones/hobnobs/ carrot cake/ weetabix cake...will stop him from eating up ingredients for tea. Mine graze on things like that at the moment and TBH although i have them earmarked for pud, i would rather they ate that. Especially when all their mates descend.They graze on fruit and toast as well...come to think of it they graze a lot:rotfl::rotfl:

Mr.B is a cheese addict, but he is also lazy, so if he can't see it immediately he won't hunt very hard for it...i often put it in different containers to confuse him...(easily done;))

Or don't make tea- serve beans on toast to the kids and tell him that was all they can have cos dad has eaten what was in for tea...every time he does it do that and shame him into getting on board with you.

If you don't have kids- well just make your own- buy the ingredients for yours and eat it in front of him- saying, "you've had yours":p

Or i thought since you didn't want to plan with me that you would want to take care of your own meals..i don't have time to do x,y,z when i am working full time and we are all adults here- you eat it- then it's gone.:D

Just a few tried and tested methods used here...and i have done all of the above.

Now just have to get him sorted out with money or i will be orf finding Johnny Depp:D:rotfl::rotfl:

poohbear59

weezl74 wrote: »

Provisional ingredients and costings for the most frugalised Cauliflower cheese I can do:D

• 1 bag cauliflower 79p
• 65 ml veg oil 4.875
• 110g plain flour 3.1
• 8 tsp mustard 12p
• Large pinch salt
• 1 pint water
• 80g cheddar cheese or similar, grated, plus extra for sprinkling on top 49.8

37p per portion:money:

I have had virtually no nternet for a few days so I am a bit late putting in my thoughts on this. And I have scan read the last couple of days so please accept my apologies if this has already been mentioned.

Have you considered having a tub of cheap dried milk in the store cupboard/ adding to list for Bob ans Shirley?

I always keep a tub of dried skimmed milk in the store cupboard for emergencies (run out of milk and shops closed) and I put a spoonful in my bread dough mix. I have ued it a few times for cauliflower cheese and it is much better than water for the sauce if is affordable. I buy mine when on offer.

Asda have it for £1.69 so a huge chunk out of the budget but it could be added sometime just as herbs and spices as a store cupboard basic.

My husband has said he would rather not have cauli flower cheese than have it made with just water. I haven't tested it yet though:)

Fire_Fox

weezl74 wrote: »

Firefox thanks for your sterling work for us, I really appreciate it, and I know you have plenty else on your mind. :A

If I toasted the bag of peanuts and added 6tbspns raw rapeseed (this is what I do now) but also a ground bag of linseeds, how much linseed plus oil would I need to satisfy the whole families needs?

So it would be:

1x 200g bag peanuts
90g rapeseed oil
[and one 150g bag of golden linseeds]

Will happily crack on with some maths but you have lost me. The whole families omega needs for how long, the full month? Is this Bob and Shirley or our vegetarian family now? What are you going to do with the ground linseeds? Sorry to be negative but they taste bad enough that I feed them to my cat (to keep him regular :rotfl:).

140g (allowing for loss on grinding) of linseeds contains 32g of omega-3 and 8g of omega-6. 90g of rapeseed oil contains 8.5g omega-3 and 17g omega-6. 200g peanuts contains 30g omega-6 and zero omega-3. So in total that is 40.5g omega-3 and 55g omega-6.

As this is a vegetarian source of omega-3 there is around a 10% conversion so the 40g omega-3 is equivalent to about 4g omega-3 from fish oils. The minimum is 3g per week per person so it's nowhere near sufficient for a month. To give you a feel the Vegetarian Society is recommending a tablespoon of flax oil per person per day to meet the minimum requirement, which would equate to five tablespoons of ground linseeds (6-7g per tablespoon)!

I'm quite shocked by these results so could someone check my maths? The link I have just used again:
http://www.vegsoc.org/info/omega3.html

Edited to add:
Asda also sell pumpkin seeds, two x 100g for £1 (6.4g omega-3), walnuts 200g for £1.50 (6g), 250g butter (3g) ideally grass fed. I *think* butter contains omega-3 in the useable long chain format. Hemp seeds contain 14g per 200g but are not sold at Asda.

homegrown_life

was going to suggest walnuts in maybe a cake form? Linseeds could be ground and added to bread. It's really confusing from what I've just tried to read up on!!!

nopot2pin

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I know there is a bit of a theme going on with the surveys
If anyone can think of anyother questions to include, I would really appreciate them

I will be back later, with some more