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

canidothis

weezl74 wrote: »

sorry cani! it's here on a spreadsheet and I think we've cracked it... Although we need firefox/HGL whomever to help us see if we've allowed enough wiggle room for calcium lost to Oxylic acid also being present

Was that all just Greek to you?

xxx

No no not entirely greek, I can keep up with the nutritional needs but just lost the plot for a second on what your total was, and wondered if I could help locate a missing gram or two - no need to simplify Weezl Im enjoying the thread as it is.

Have to say Ive spoken to some 'real' people about this thread and they look at me as if Im mad - you are so lucky to ISOM near by- a friend popped in yesterday and watched me portion out yoghurts and cooked apple - well I think ive just arrived from Mars by her reaction,

weezl74

Fire_Fox wrote: »

I am completely lost. Mysupermarket has the spread as 15% buttermilk and Asda as 5% but I am sure I haven't used either of those figures ... I had in my head 28% but where on earth did I get that from???? My brain is fried and I an not making any sense so stick me on ignore overnight ....

It's Asda you butter believe it which is 28%! Donkey. But therefore the Asda spread contains more calcium!!

I feel your pain fire fox, I feel like I'm on a course called 'death by extreme geekery, deep maths and spreadsheets beyond the dawn of time' :rotfl:

weezl74

canidothis wrote: »

No no not entirely greek, I can keep up with the nutritional needs but just lost the plot for a second on what your total was, and wondered if I could help locate a missing gram or two - no need to simplify Weezl Im enjoying the thread as it is.

Have to say Ive spoken to some 'real' people about this thread and they look at me as if Im mad - you are so lucky to ISOM near by- a friend popped in yesterday and watched me portion out yoghurts and cooked apple - well I think ive just arrived from Mars by her reaction,

Sorry, I think that sounded a bit patronising:o, that's not how I see you at all

It is indeedy lovely to have ISOM at hand. She will now come on and tell you she is v good at baking testing and ferg-sitting, but her eyes roll into the back of her head if I so much as show her a spreadsheet :).

I think she likes maths more than she makes out

We have twinkle star in Cardiff too, but we have only managed to meet her once

canidothis

weezl74 wrote: »

I feel your pain fire fox, I feel like I'm on a course called 'death by extreme geekery, deep maths and spreadsheets beyond the dawn of time' :rotfl:

:rotfl::rotfl:and you expect us lesser mortals to keep up :rotfl::rotfl:

System

HowlinWolf wrote: »

125g of sugar is perfectly fine in the fruit loaf

If we go with 125g then, we will be left with 1018g sugar. (This only includes the recipes listed before, though, so the garibaldi biscuits still need to come out of that.)

By the way, the small honey deficit can be eliminated by using a conversion rate of 1 tbsp = 32g instead of the 34g that Weezl used. Sounds plausible, having checked various online conversion tables -- most suggest a lower weight still. This conversion rate would convert to 96g honey per batch of cereal bars. It would help further to drop the honey from the roast pork, because then we could use 100g honey for each the four batches of cereal bars, and the scrapings of the jar for the turkey drumsticks. Just a thought.

canidothis

weezl74 wrote: »

Sorry, I think that sounded a bit patronising, that's not how I see you at all

It is indeedy lovely to have ISOM at hand. She will now come on and tell you she is v good at baking testing and ferg-sitting, but her eyes roll into the back of her head if I so much as show her a spreadsheet :).

I think she likes maths more than she makes out

We have twinkle star in Cardiff too, but we have only managed to meet her once

Certainly not taken that way so dont worry yourself - you come across very muchly considerate and I guess you want everyone to join in and understand:)

weezl74

Avocet wrote: »

This conversion rate would convert to 96g honey per batch of cereal bars. It would help further to drop the honey from the roast pork, because then we could use 100g honey for each the four batches of cereal bars, and the scrapings of the jar for the turkey drumsticks. Just a thought.

plus I'm kinda coming round to thinking of rubber chicken as the sunday dinners, cos then we get at least one other meal out of the chicken plus no more need for stock cubes so no honey need for the roast meals then methinks...

purpleivy

aless02 wrote: »

oh and weezl, re: the chicken



P.S., I would never ever have the room to store all the milk in our standard fridge/freeze, but we drink UHT so extra gets stored in the cupboards anyway (honestly, it doesn't that bad folks! )

I buy fresh semi skimmed for the boys (well, dh and ds) to have on cereal. We are used to UHT skimmed in tea and I use milk powder for all cooking. It's light, it keeps well and I believe it's quite economical.

purpleivy

ceridwen wrote: »

hmmm...thats getting me wondering whether fruit could be soaked in fruit-y type tea?

Yer, I've got some random fruity herby type teabags kicking around as well.

weezl74

Example day for hungry teens, comments welcomed:

porridge with raisins and 15g skimmed milk powder 11.95p

3 slices toast with apple curd 7.8p

cereal bar 3.8p

carrot cake 6.5p

houmous sandwich 4p

risi e bisi 32.84p

garibaldi biscuit 1.7p

tea with milk 8p

total 76p