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

nopot2pin

Just ignore me for a sec...
Just need a wee test space

The TEA Survey .........................................:think:The TEA Survey results

ah... right, sorted now, ta

Isn't it amazing when your faffing... I have just noticed the spell checker on MSE :doh:
Never noticed it before

weezl74

nopot2pin wrote: »

Just ignore me for a sec...
Just need a wee test space

The TEA Survey .........................................:think:The TEA Survey results

ah... right, sorted now, ta

Isn't it amazing when your faffing... I have just noticed the spell checker on MSE :doh:
Never noticed it before

potty:A the result for how many cuppas a day is displaying as a date in column 3. Is there a little tweak I can do to get it to show me the number of cuppas? Sorry to be a pain

weezl74

would anyone be willing to post potty's excellent tea poll as a linkie in a new thread on DT and old-style to get some more views?

xxx

nopot2pin

weezl74 wrote: »

potty:A the result for how many cuppas a day is displaying as a date in column 3. Is there a little tweak I can do to get it to show me the number of cuppas? Sorry to be a pain

The two numbers is the number of cups... I think
But I cant get it to just display as a number
Any suggestions ?
How do I add you to be able to change it ?


It looks correct now Weezl....
The value is still in date format, but I can see where the formatting for numbers is....
I am going to leave it like that for now, unless someone can point me in the right direction

ceridwen

weezl74 wrote: »

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1 Tesco Ingredients Balsvinegar 250ml £1.00

2 Fragata Olives Stuffed With Garlic 200g 1.78

3 Tesco Pumpkin Seeds 300g £5.82

3 Natco Fine Corn Meal 1.5kg £2.49

2 Dunns River Fine Cornmeal 500g £0.90

1 Tesco Value Peas 900g £0.87

7 Market Value Brown Onions 2kg £5.46

3 Tesco Tomato Puree Tube 200g 0.99 organic £2.88

12 Tesco Value Chopped Tomatoes 400g £4.20 organic £9.48

8 Tesco Value Baked Beans In Tomt/Sauce 420g £2.32 organic £5.12

6 Tesco Instant Hot Oat Cereal 750g £6.96 organic porridge oats £7.08

2 Tesco Pure Vegetable Oil 3 Litre £5.04 Sungrown Extra Virgin Olive Oil £19.14

2 Miscellaneous Granulated Sugar2kg Parcels £3.80 Value honey - say 10 jars? - £6.80

18 Market Value Apple Pack £12.24 organic - £35.82

2 Tesco Very Fine Whole Green Beans 1kg £2.00

8 Tesco Value Sultanas 500g £5.20

4 Market Value Bananas 1.5kg £5.36

1 Tesco Walnut Pieces 200g £1.50

2 Tesco Value 80 Teabags 250g £0.56 DELETED

2 Tesco Red Split Lentils 500g £1.76

2 Market Value Orange Pack 2.00

4 Market Value Baking Potatoes 2.5kg 5.60

31 Loose Carrots Class 1 2.17

15 Bramley Cooking Apples Loose Class 1 £5.85

5 Tesco Value Self Raising Flour 1.5kg £2.15 Organic wholemeal SR flour - £6.90

10 Tesco Strong White Bread Flour 1.5kg £6.10 Organic wholemeal bread flour - £13.90

5 Leo Dried Peas 250g £1.40

4 Tesco Value Pasta Quills 500g £1.28 Organic £2.32

1 Tesco Value Salted Peanuts 200g £0.27

2 Gia Garlic Puree 90g £1.18

2 Tesco Chick Peas 500g - £1.58

Hmmm... decided - just mainly for my own reference to amend this list to my own personal Dead Basics non-negotiable in extremis one - and see what it comes to:D

TOTAL = £163.63 (ie £40.91 each for a month) (ie still in the ceridwen "cor thats cheap" category...)

On top of that would be drinks of choice (I didnt think it fair to include the drinks I have - ummm.....RATHER expensive..)
and also plus - whatever extra food would be needed to make up for not having the calcium enhancement there in the "Readybrek" type cereal and any extra calories needed because I've replaced sugar with honey.

So - just one leetle query or two for our Weezl on that - ie what food would I need to add in to make up that missing calcium supplement purlease? (presumably a certain number of cartons of enhanced rice milk or oat milk?)

nopot2pin

weezl74 wrote: »

would anyone be willing to post potty's excellent tea poll as a linkie in a new thread on DT and old-style to get some more views?

xxx

That will be me then, eh ?

weezl74

nopot2pin wrote: »

The two numbers is the number of cups... I think
But I cant get it to just display as a number
Any suggestions ?
How do I add you to be able to change it ?


It looks correct now Weezl....
The value is still in date format, but I can see where the formatting for numbers is....
I am going to leave it like that for now, unless someone can point me in the right direction

great!

well this is already telling me some good news and some bad news...

amount of fresh milk allowed = fine to generous

amount of teabags allowed = woefully small, as most people are only yielding a cup per bag, and are saying they wouldn't reduce the amount of tea (ie make a pot for the whole family out of 1 bag...)

this makes Bob and Shirley a 20 tea bag a day household:eek: which even with further economies is a lot for me to claw back....

hmmmn will ponder....

weezl74

nopot2pin wrote: »

That will be me then, eh ?

well any of us could, I guess it depends if you'd like to! Sometimes DT can get some really daft responses and I wouldn't want you to feel picked at by some of the trollisms going on sometimes?

xxx

nopot2pin

weezl74 wrote: »

well any of us could, I guess it depends if you'd like to! Sometimes DT can get some really daft responses and I wouldn't want you to feel picked at by some of the trollisms going on sometimes?

xxx

Done now, in DT and OS

I think it may get moved out of DT... but if a few click to respond the better eh ?

And if they pick on me, so be it... at least they are not bothering some one else

weezl74

ceridwen wrote: »

Hmmm... decided - just mainly for my own reference to amend this list to my own personal Dead Basics non-negotiable in extremis one - and see what it comes to:D

looks good C, just a couple of health things though, you'll need to spend £42 on asda smartprice honey to yield the same calories as the sugar.

By removing the rapeseed you've no omega3 which would worry me from a cancer and heart-health perspective.

you'll need 45 kilos more porridge oats to replace the calcium you've lost by removing the hot oats. (really important for your bone health)

edit, sorry I've just noticed you've swapped away from white flour too, so you'd have to eat 6 times the amount of the wholemeal flour to gain that lost calcium back.

I'm sorry if that sounds at all picky but I'd so hate to see you damage your health to do this

re reading what I've written, it sounds like your current diet and spend is loads better than tweaking the vegan planner. So maybe just carry on as you are, I know you are great at living frugally!