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

weezl74

maysmummy wrote: »

Hi Weezl

Yes, I agree with your DH, dried fruit as a pudding after meals. Fruit juice also at mealtimes.

I'm a Community dentist, not a GDP so spend a lot of my time on this sort of thing.My children hate the sugar free thing but I heard my DD (12) telling her friend on a sleepover the other day 'spit, don't rinse your mouth out after you've brushed your teeth, it takes the fluoride away' Friend's face:Confused

Good luck , as I've said before, I love your thread.
MM

Thank you

If I do make this lemon squash and use the bicarb in it which lowers the acidity, do you think that will be more toothkind?

I asked DH but he can't be bothered to trawl through the BDJ at the mo as he's a bit snowed under with PhD plus Kester coming!

homegrown_life

honey and raisin cereal bars

I baked these yesterday and we all had one after lunch today. My DH, who needs bits like these in his lunch box really liked it, gave it 10 out of 10 DS liked it but I think was expecting something a bit crunchier and gave it 5 out of 10. DD loved it, and gave 10, I only had a half piece and really liked it even though I am not a raisin / dried fruit lover.

Overall a great recipe, really easy to do. I made half quantities and made 16 bars. I'll definitely make it again, maybe adding some seeds and other types of dried fruit for a bit of variety.

maltesers_2

weezl74 wrote: »

Vit C just been to check the recipecal nutritional profiles...

most of the main meals we've analysed so far have the RDA of vit C, according to recipecal.

The risi e bisi may be an exception, but we can swap the breakfasts and lunches around to accomodate that I think. The chana mutter masal plus just one piece of carrot cake, not counting all else consumed will give above the Vit C RDA for that day. HTH

Have you had a look at the spreadsheets malteser, I think it might help cos we've been quite a bit more detailed on there than on here, I think because we're aware this thread is more about having fun with the recipes and I felt a bit bad about making it go too mathematical :D

I don't know where the spreadsheets are:( I clicked on something on the first page and an empty page with googledoc appeared so I don't think I can.

sorry what is chana mutter masal?

weezl74

homegrown_life wrote: »

honey and raisin cereal bars

I baked these yesterday and we all had one after lunch today. My DH, who needs bits like these in his lunch box really liked it, gave it 10 out of 10 DS liked it but I think was expecting something a bit crunchier and gave it 5 out of 10. DD loved it, and gave 10, I only had a half piece and really liked it even though I am not a raisin / dried fruit lover.

Overall a great recipe, really easy to do. I made half quantities and made 16 bars. I'll definitely make it again, maybe adding some seeds and other types of dried fruit for a bit of variety.

Yay! Fab news I always feel so surprised when I make something up out of my head and it's passable

weezl74

maltesers wrote: »

I don't know where the spreadsheets are:( I clicked on something on the first page and an empty page with googledoc appeared so I don't think I can.

sorry what is chana mutter masal?

does this link work for you at all?

chana mutter masala is a curry with chick peas and ordinary green peas

maysmummy

Weezl, what a brainbox your hubby is! A PhD!!. I've only got a DPDS:(.

Without getting too technical, I think Bicarb will flatten the stefan curve bit but the bottom line is: if it's not milk or water, it's not a safe drink and should be for mealtimes only.

Sorry
MMXXXX

weezl74

maysmummy wrote: »

Weezl, what a brainbox your hubby is! A PhD!!. I've only got a DPDS:(.

Without getting too technical, I think Bicarb will flatten the stefan curve bit but the bottom line is: if it's not milk or water, it's not a safe drink and should be for mealtimes only.

Sorry
MMXXXX

he doesn't feel like a brainbox love him! He's feeling the demands of career v homelife ATM!

I'll make sure we're clear that we'd like the squash to be with meals from a teeth point of view

Please feel free to be our dental consultant to the thread if you'd like to be. :A

aplaceinthesun

weezl74 wrote: »

Hello! That's fab that you're willing to help! Here are a few possibilities:

analysing recipes using recipecal, but have a look at the site before you say yes as I think it's only me and IOIWE who find it useful! Lesley has been using another tool. Lesley how can I access your stats online for that?

testing a recipe or two, whatever takes your fancy. Doesn't matter if we double up on that one, as the more opinions the more mass appeal the planner will have

If any of those 'titles' I posted grabbed you, like 'shirley's kit list' or 'how to get family on board' or something, then you could offer to pull together the various views people have into one big post so we can take the writing up forward, IYSWIM?

How do any of those things sound? xxx

Havent 'dashed' yet but really must go as soon as I finish this post.... !

What I will do later is go and find that post with the list of titles , I think I could take a few of those on as whilst going through the posts to gather various peoples views I could collate the information for a few of the titles.

Then , once I have a list of my findings tackle each 'list' at a time and ask for further ideas / comments so we come to a useful and useable conclusion/listfor Shirley and her family. Obviously it will take me a little while to go back through all the posts but at least I can skim read to seek out the required info instead of reading and digesting every word so to speak.

Definately will be testing some recipes on my family this week.

Re the recipe analysis, shall I make a list of what has been analysed already and work forward from that ?

Back later.... x

maltesers_2

weezl74 wrote: »

does this link work for you at all?

chana mutter masala is a curry with chick peas and ordinary green peas

It took me to a googledoc calcium calculator with a blue blank page:(

I didn't see any curry on the days food plan - I'm confused now.

maysmummy

I thought that Toothsmith had most dental things covered but I'd be honoured, Weezl.

A Consultant- me!:rotfl: never thought I'd see the day.

(goes off to complete rest of housework with daft grin on face...)