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

Murrell

aless02 wrote: »

Pumpkin seed butter
approximated roughly 10 servings, which is roughly 37g a serving to spread on toasts.

Short Information

Values for one serving Energy 170.545 Cal Protein 7.935 g Fats 15.204 g Polyunsaturates 4.467 g Monosaturates 8.15 g Saturates 1.838 g Cholesterol 12.90 mg Carbohydrates 2.289 g

Detailed Information

Values for one serving Element Value Food energy (kcal) 170.545 Protein (g) 7.935 Fat (Total lipids)(g) 15.204 Ash (g) 0.624 Carbohydrate, by difference (g) 2.289 Total dietary fiber (g) 1.41 Sugar Total (g) 0.627 Calcium (mg) 24.60 Iron (mg) 0.459 Magnesium (mg) 32.10 Phosphorus (mg) 94.20 Potassium (mg) 176.25 Sodium (mg) 63.45 Zinc (mg) 0.79 Copper (mg) 0.138 Manganese (mg) 0.411 Selenium (mcg) 2.925 Vitamin C (mg) 0.27 Thiamin (mg) 0.027 Riboflavin (mg) 0.026 Niacin (mg) 2.293 Pantothenic acid (mg) 0.31 Vitamin B6 (mg) 0.09 Folate (mcg) 20.55 Folic acid (mcg) 0.00 Food Folate (mcg) 20.55 Folate DFE (mcg Dietary Folate equivalent) 20.55 Vitamin B12 (mcg) 0.347 Vitamin A_IU (IU) 8.70 Vitamin A_RAE (mcg retinol activity equivalents) 2.55 Retinol (mcg) 2.55 Vitamin E alpha-tocopherol (mg) 2.271 Vitamin K ( phylloquinone) (mcg) 8.777 Alpha-carotene (mcg) 0.00 Beta-carotene (mcg) 0.00 Beta-cryptoxanthin (mcg) 0.00 Lycopene (mcg) 0.00 Lutein+Zeazanthin (mcg) 0.00 Saturated fatty acid (g) 1.838 Monounsaturated fatty acids (g) 8.15 Polyunsaturated fatty acids (g) 4.467 Cholesterol (mg) 12.90

I think this is great what your doing. I was just wondering why this came out listing cholesterol, when its actually cholesterol free as its a vegan spread! I guess this program can't be relied on 100%, but it gives a lot of detail I wasn't expecting. Is this the foodfocus program?

thanks
Sandra

weezl74

Murrell wrote: »

I think this is great what your doing. I was just wondering why this came out listing cholesterol, when its actually cholesterol free as its a vegan spread! I guess this program can't be relied on 100%, but it gives a lot of detail I wasn't expecting. Is this the foodfocus program?

thanks
Sandra

I think it has Good cholesterol, but no bad cholesterol HDL/LDL.

But not entirely sure! Lots of vegan/vegetarian foods are high in the good kind, I think, but happy to wait for more learned folk to come along and help us!

Murrell

weezl74 wrote: »

I think it has Good cholesterol, but no bad cholesterol HDL/LDL.

But not entirely sure! Lots of vegan/vegetarian foods are high in the good kind, I think, but happy to wait for more learned folk to come along and help us!

Cholesterol is only found in animal products as its produced in the liver. We make our own. We are told to cut down or cut out cholesterol, because we make what we need and don't need any additional in the diet. Saturated fats can also be turned into cholesterol. Hope that helps explain why I was suprised at the cholesterol listed, as I knew there was none in the recipe.

Just made the tangy bean pate and its very nice. I didn't have all ingredients so used a slice of granary seeded bread, garlic granuals and french mustard instead of dried. I cooked it without the oil, with the intention of adding it in uncooked for the omegas, but thought it was already moist enought so put in a tablespoon of ground flax seed instead for my omegas. I know this doesn't help with the frugalness though, just wanted to let you know its tasty.

Sandra

poohbear59

Tomato soup report.

Three hungry men and I all had soup for lunch. I gave them huge bows of it and I had a normal portion. We have enough left for at least two huge or three normalish sized bowls for a second meal. I would say the quantity I made is definitely enough for a family of two adults and two teens, for two meals.

And they thought it was yummy too. I didn't use the full 100g of dried milk powder as I need some for tonight's carbonara.

Regarding portion sizes and fitting in all the required nutrients, I would agree with Lesley. Everyone should have everything but DD and mum should eat smaller portions of carbohydrates.

weezl74

Murrell wrote: »

Cholesterol is only found in animal products as its produced in the liver. We make our own. We are told to cut down or cut out cholesterol, because we make what we need and don't need any additional in the diet. Saturated fats can also be turned into cholesterol. Hope that helps explain why I was suprised at the cholesterol listed, as I knew there was none in the recipe.
Sandra

thanks sandra, I didn't know that!

You sound very knowledgeable, I hope you can stay around? x

Sian_the_Green

Mmm, some more yummy looking recipes, not sure on the potato and onion tart, looks pink on my computer...

The topping I made for the carrot cake looked a little less runny than yours but not much. In order to use all the oil without heating the sugar and milk were heated almost to a paste, like the base for a roux then I mixed in the oil and a little more milk to loosen once it had been cooled. Tasted a bit like toffee, which I guess it was to some extent

Good work everyone!

Murrell

weezl74 wrote: »

thanks sandra, I didn't know that!

You sound very knowledgeable, I hope you can stay around? x

I will stay around if I can! As there is a emphasis on nutrition and some of the recipes are vegan, this is of interest to me. I have read a lot about nutrition over the years and did start a course once, but didn't finish it unfortunately. I am working on something similar to you. But I am not starting with a price figure and trying to make it fit, which this thread proves is hard to do, but you are doing an excellent job. I am doing a vegan plan, based on what is required nutritionally daily and then finding the cheapest way its can be done. This will take a long time, as there is so many factors like eating vitamin c rich food with iron rich food, Calcium balance is affected by potatsium and sodium etc. And instead of basing the plan on so many portions of fruit and veg, it is based on 450 grams daily from a variety of brightly coloured fruit and veg as broken down in plant based nutrition by Stephen Walsh. I have read this book (and many others - i've been vegan for about 16 years or more) a couple of times and been in contact with the author to clarify points. I have posted a summary of the book giving all the nutrients required and the pitfalls to look out for on a vegan diet on my blog today, as I thought this may be of interest to readers on here, as there is a lot of vegan recipes and veggie people on this venture with you. Of course I know the recomendations for a healthy vegan diet, can not fit in a 80p a day challenge, as just one of the recomendations is 2 brazil nuts a day for selenium.
Keep up the good work, I will occasionally try out recipes. I only have one or possibly two sometimes slots a week to experiment, as we have a weekly meal plan to cover all our nutrition requirements that my hubby doesn't want to deviate from as it took us so long to put together as he is fussy!

Sandra
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Sian_the_Green

Ooh, Ooh, had an idea. We obviously now have an idea of things which people definitely want to have in the plan from the discussion thread, what about another one on the things which people definitely don't want? I.e. if most people said a definite no to lentils we might have a problem. Or liver. Or powdered milk in tea... I am aware lots of things which are delicious are not considered edible by much of the population...

maryb

weezl74 wrote: »

I've just discovered we're not to link from a post to a blog. I'm sorry, I've been doing this a bit to show you guys the photos of the recipes.

I'll try to remember to just say: photos and recipe details on m'blog and then you'll be able to find them if you like

Weezl

I haven't posted yet because I've been too busy catching up but I think this is a wonderful thing you are doing.

Would it help people if you added something to your signature like " to see my blog wth pictures click on my avatar for the link"? It's just that I didn't know how to find posters' blogs for quite a long time. Great pictures by the way.

This thread and your other thread have really brought home to me how hard it is to find nutritional information other than the basics included on food labels. I have osteopenia so I try to eat more cheese than I used to and I really had to search around to find out which cheeses had most calcium. (It doesn't help that you often get advice to eat low fat dairy foods - they are usually very LOW in calcium). I am finding your threads a real eye opener and a great read just because the sort of nutritional information you are focussing on is so hard to find normally - and I consider myself reasonably well informed.

FrankieM

weezl Are there any other meals you'd like tested? I'm just starting to think about tonights dinner