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

grandma247

I had a look at my Marguerite Patten preserving book and the recipe for sweet orange (as opposed to seville) marmalade has these ingredients.
1lb sweet oranges
2 pints water
2lb sugar
juice of 1 lemon.

I see no reason why the shells could not be used to make up the weight and they will not look much different in the marmalade without the zest.
Sorry got to go dd1 arrived will catch up later.

Fire_Fox

Weezl: Calcium is not going so well. The government recommends two to three portions of dairy per person per day, but I don't see a problem with using two portions and then making up the difference elsewhere. That means we need a minimum of [STRIKE]124[/STRIKE] 248 portions, but we only have 78 adult portions (200ml milk/ 30g cheese).

Using either the Asda website or http://www.nutritiondata.com/ I have calculated:
9 litres milk = 11g calcium
1kg cheddar = 7.2g
Six cans pilchards = 7.6g
30 medium eggs = 0.7g
2kg chick peas = 2g
12 x baked beans = 2268g beans = 1g
5kg porridge oats = 2.7g
4.5kg Smartprice flour = 1g
3kg green beans = 1g

Which is a total of 34g calcium. Plus some from water intake, depending if it's a hard or soft water area.

Teenagers portions are larger than adults: http://www.milk.co.uk/page.aspx?intPageID=92
If both children are in the 11-18 age group, we need 3.2g calcium per day for the family: I hope my maths is off due to last night's imbibing.

Anyone know how much the Asda wheat bisks weighs as nutrition stats are by weight and the pack is by quantity?

phizzimum

just been checking the calorific value of cooked potato and pilchards to see which of my figures are right for the fishcakes and it looks like the first set of figures I posted are correct : 15.4g protein, 162.6 calories, 3.5 % calcium (not given in grams)

weezl74

ifonlyitwaseasier wrote: »

lol how on earth did i leave it at 1 gram???

ok changed now

it's gorn, your recipe's gorn and gotten lost! Howdy did that happen? I had it and then hit refresh when you'd updated it, but no more recipe :eek::)

weezl74

Fire_Fox wrote: »

Weezl: Calcium is not going so well. The government recommends two to three portions of dairy per person per day, but I don't see a problem with using two portions and then making up the difference elsewhere. That means we need a minimum of 124 portions, but we only have 78 adult portions (200ml milk/ 30g cheese).

Using either the Asda website or http://www.nutritiondata.com/ I have calculated:
9 litres milk = 11g calcium
1kg cheddar = 7.2g
Six cans pilchards = 7.6g
30 medium eggs = 0.7g
2kg chick peas = 2g
12 x baked beans = 2268g beans = 1g
5kg porridge oats = 2.7g
4.5kg Smartprice flour = 1g
3kg green beans = 1g

Which is a total of 34g calcium. Plus some from water intake, depending if it's a hard or soft water area.

Teenagers portions are larger than adults: http://www.milk.co.uk/page.aspx?intPageID=92
If both children are in the 11-18 age group, we need 3.2g calcium per day for the family: I hope my maths is off due to last night's imbibing.

Anyone know how much the Asda wheat bisks weighs as nutrition stats are by weight and the pack is by quantity?

17.5 g is the weight of one weetbisk

Lesley_Gaye

weezl74 wrote: »

wow! And it looks pretty vitamin tastic without them! Thanks for that lesley. Sorry fuddled brain, were you using recipecal too or another tool?


Thank you!

I had a look at the Spark People one and had a go at that one. Don't mind which one I use, whichever you want me to, if you have a pref

shanks77

Fire_Fox wrote: »

Weezl: Calcium is not going so well. The government recommends two to three portions of dairy per person per day, but I don't see a problem with using two portions and then making up the difference elsewhere. That means we need a minimum of 124 portions, but we only have 78 adult portions (200ml milk/ 30g cheese).

Using either the Asda website or http://www.nutritiondata.com/ I have calculated:
9 litres milk = 11g calcium
1kg cheddar = 7.2g
Six cans pilchards = 7.6g
30 medium eggs = 0.7g
2kg chick peas = 2g
12 x baked beans = 2268g beans = 1g
5kg porridge oats = 2.7g
4.5kg Smartprice flour = 1g
3kg green beans = 1g

Which is a total of 34g calcium. Plus some from water intake, depending if it's a hard or soft water area.

Teenagers portions are larger than adults: http://www.milk.co.uk/page.aspx?intPageID=92
If both children are in the 11-18 age group, we need 3.2g calcium per day for the family: I hope my maths is off due to last night's imbibing.

Anyone know how much the Asda wheat bisks weighs as nutrition stats are by weight and the pack is by quantity?

2 Biscs weight 37.5g

weezl74

Lesley_Gaye wrote: »

I had a look at the Spark People one and had a go at that one. Don't mind which one I use, whichever you want me to, if you have a pref

no pref, just interested

ifonlyitwaseasier

ok sorted, hadn't re-shared it!!

weezl74

Fire_Fox wrote: »

Weezl: Calcium is not going so well. The government recommends two to three portions of dairy per person per day, but I don't see a problem with using two portions and then making up the difference elsewhere. That means we need a minimum of 124 portions, but we only have 78 adult portions (200ml milk/ 30g cheese).

Hiya firefox, gonna reveal my ignorance now, but why does the calcium have to come from dairy? I mean are the govt saying, get it from dairy cos that's easiest for Joe public to include in his normal diet, or are they saying it cos it's dangerous to get it from non-dairy sources? Does my question make any sense, I suspect not :)