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

nopot2pin

The tea survey results are flying in :j

Brilliant suggestion Weezl :T

weezl74

nopot2pin wrote: »

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

well it's doubled the number of responses already! :T:T:T:T

morag1202

Weezl, try as I have, I cannot find an RDA list in its entirety out there on the web but it is obvious that you are using one.

If it's not too much trouble, could you post a link to it please?

nopot2pin

weezl74 wrote: »

well it's doubled the number of responses already! :T:T:T:T

Aye

I will bump the threads, when they drop off the first page

ceridwen

weezl74 wrote: »

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!

So - I guess I'd personally add the "sugar" calories back in with extra bread and/or potatoes. I'd have to throw in handfuls of seeds for my omegas. I couldnt swop away from dairy products without endangering my calcium intake.

Oh well - I'll pick up what ideas and recipes I can:D

"Great at living frugally" - hmmm....might be debatable point to some people:rotfl:. I'm being reasonably "good" in that respect right at this moment - eating a sorta apple charlotte - the apples being preserved ones from a few months back and the bread being odd leftover "bits" from some of my homemade bread.

- We'll just "draw a veil" over the creme fraiche (errr...yep...tis organic:)) and handful of seeds I've thrown over the top (well - I'm learning summat from here - I'm throwing handfuls of seeds in with loadsa stuff now:)).

weezl74

morag1202 wrote: »

Weezl, try as I have, I cannot find an RDA list in its entirety out there on the web but it is obvious that you are using one.

If it's not too much trouble, could you post a link to it please?

yep! nowt of any use on the internet is there?! ours is a cobbled together version, really... recipecal and all aless's calcs using that give us a percentage of the RDA of most of the vits and minerals, but we've had to use extra info from, wiki for the omegas (thanks to artybear!) and the figures on the balance of the different fats came from somewhere else too it'll come back to me though I'm sure!


At the moment I'm pretty happy that by hitting the fruit and veg targets for each day our vitamins are alright, so am mostly concentrating on enough calories, good carb balance, omega 3 and calcium. (main reason for zooming in so much on calcium is the decision to keep the fresh milk as only for tea, ie such a lot less than the average household would have IYSWIM?

My basic principle with this is that as long as I haven't made Bob and Shirley average's diet WORSE than it was then I'm happy, and I already feel in loads of ways that it's lots better IYSWIM?

To go lots further than that (although I am a geek who would love to!) feels like I'd be making the project into something bigger than it is...

Does that make any sense?

I hope that answers your question

morag1202

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

I think the survey automatically prints the option you gave then thinks you are meaning a date?

i.e. your option was "1 -2" so it prints 1/2/2010

You could try altering your option to "1 or 2" and then it might print that?

nopot2pin

morag1202 wrote: »

I think the survey automatically prints the option you gave then thinks you are meaning a date?

i.e. your option was "1 -2" so it prints 1/2/2010

You could try altering your option to "1 or 2" and then it might print that?

Ah, right ... I see, I think...
I will change it to that, as its not really changing the meaning
Thanks


Changed it, so hopefully it will work

Woo Hoo
It did work....
And you are right, it was reading it as an American date, so I have changed the settings, so hopefully it wont come up agan else where

morag1202

weezl74 wrote: »

yep! nowt of any use on the internet is there?!
I hope that answers your question

:rotfl:thanks, thought it was just me being fick!

weezl74

ceridwen wrote: »

So - I guess I'd personally add the "sugar" calories back in with extra bread and/or potatoes. I'd have to throw in handfuls of seeds for my omegas. I couldnt swop away from dairy products without endangering my calcium intake.

I think since shirley is unlikely to be as well read on nutrition than our little team, and definitely not as well read as you ceridwen, but I think that we're probably going to have to say that the plan is healthy if followed as written but that tweaks made, which may look innocuous, will have big consequences.

For example if she thought she could remove the sugar and just buy a few extra kilos of potatoes and everyone would get enough calories, we'd be really worried about her because she'd have to buy 128 extra of these a month to lose the sugar.




So as draconian as it sounds, I think we should probably proceed with the planner and be really clear to shirley that it's only to be considered healthy if not tweaked!

Let's not get sued folks!:rotfl: