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

weezl74

ceridwen wrote: »

I've written down a lot of recipes before now from Gingham Ribbon's vegetarian mealplanners from a few years ago here. As I've just started to work my way through them and so am remembering about these threads of hers (as she wrote several) - I thought maybe some of the recipes from them might get incorporated at some point? Think people might be interested to take a look at them anyways:):

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=257885

Thanks ceridwen

Did you want to have a go at any of the necessary frugalisations and healthifications of any of those?

Please feel free to say no, I know you have lots going on in real life and I don't want to burden you

ceridwen

weezl74 wrote: »

ISOM, BOB and ceridwen you are forbidden to comment on the above sentence even though I know you are itching to.

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HowlinWolf

8 items. £8.94
Tins, Jars & CookingGuide price in £
1 x ASDA Black Peppercorns Whole (106g) 1.22 was £1.36
1 x ASDA Cooking Salt (3Kg) 0.92
1 x ASDA Garam Masala Spice Blend (92g) 1.00
1 x ASDA Garlic Granules (60g) 0.58
1 x ASDA Hot Chilli Powder (100g) 0.87
1 x Colman's Mustard Powder (57g) 0.91
1 x Marmite (250g) 2.03 was £2.25
1 x OXO Stock Cubes Chicken (24x6g) 1.41 any 2 FOR £2.00 - valid until: 31/12/10

even without the offer oxo stock cubes work out cheaper for 24 than asda own brand. It might be worth someone looking to see what the yield is from a tub of bouillon powder. Shirley might get more value from a tub of that than from a stock cube and she can choose how much or how little stock to add to something without wasting any.

ceridwen

weezl74 wrote: »

Thanks ceridwen

Did you want to have a go at any of the necessary frugalisations and healthifications of any of those?

Please feel free to say no, I know you have lots going on in real life and I don't want to burden you

'Fraid that would be a step too far for me - with other things on my plate.

Right now - this thread has rather prompted me in a very different direction anyways - ie of "bumping up" the "health angle" of what I eat even more. Hence - I've now swopped from organic wholemeal flour to stoneground organic wholemeal flour for instance and olive oil is always going to be extra virgin now.

Think my budget these days would be stratospheric compared to Bob and Shirley's. My personal take is to use cheap recipes with best-quality ingredients IYSWIM. I'd need a bank loan if I was using dear recipes with best-quality ingredients:eek:.

I'm personally working on sorta modern day "peasant" style recipes - with peasant quality ingredients (ie - as untampered with as those peasants have had for hundreds of years before Big Business came onto the scene and started processing food madly and throwing fat/soya/sugar/salt/unnecessary water into the mix to improve their profits at our expense).

Having seen that mention in the post the other day about food manufacturers preventing cookbooks being published for several years in America unless Canola oil was put in as an ingredient every time oil was mentioned - I shall now be studying my cookbooks with a beady eye to see if I can spot any heavily-processed ingredient turning up regularly - and throwing any like that into the bin. I dont think I've got any of the 1970s cookbooks that regularly featured C*******s condensed soups...(part of the reason I had to turn to health food back then was because there was so much of that sort of malarkey going on in other recipes at that time - even in Britain).

weezl74

HowlinWolf wrote: »

8 items. £8.94
Tins, Jars & CookingGuide price in £
1 x ASDA Black Peppercorns Whole (106g) 1.22 was £1.36
1 x ASDA Cooking Salt (3Kg) 0.92
1 x ASDA Garam Masala Spice Blend (92g) 1.00
1 x ASDA Garlic Granules (60g) 0.58
1 x ASDA Hot Chilli Powder (100g) 0.87
1 x Colman's Mustard Powder (57g) 0.91
1 x Marmite (250g) 2.03 was £2.25
1 x OXO Stock Cubes Chicken (24x6g) 1.41 any 2 FOR £2.00 - valid until: 31/12/10

even without the offer oxo stock cubes work out cheaper for 24 than asda own brand. It might be worth someone looking to see what the yield is from a tub of bouillon powder. Shirley might get more value from a tub of that than from a stock cube and she can choose how much or how little stock to add to something without wasting any.

thank you howlin :T:T:T:T

I'm wondering if that's a bit much initial outlay Does it feel like I'm cheating if she has to spend nearly a tenner on set up seasonings. It's nearly 10% over budget....


guys, fergus got me this for my birthday with daddy's help

ceridwen

Belated Happy Birthday

and, in that case, maybe someone more technically-minded than myself might like to post a link to a book extract on Google Books that comes up as 3rd one down the Google Search List if inputting "Eating for Victory"...

domesticgoddess789

weezl74 wrote: »

guys, fergus got me this for my birthday with daddy's help

Happy Birthday Weezl! (Was it yesterday or today? am not sure, sorry) What thoughtful children you have! May have a look for that book in my local library

SusanC_2

weezl74 wrote: »

murrell hello! re the cornmeal, did we go for the 350mg CA or are we thinking that's for one which has been treated to avoid pellagra and is only sold in the states?

I've seen stuff that's treated in Sainsbury's but it's loads more expensive (like about five times the price IIRC) - it's called masa harina.

aless02

Susan beat me to the masa harina. But also I don't really know very much about cornmeal as a) I've never cooked with it, because b) I secretly hate it! :rotfl:

Oooo, did anyone watch the Ration Book Britain programme on Yesterday last night? It was pretty good and apparently there's going to be something on at 5pm about wartime cooking?

QOS, your breadsticks sound yummy, but I'm confused re: technique. You have your dough and then you do what? Roll it out flat and cut strips? Where does the filling come in? I've never made breadsticks!

weezl, I'll slice the bread next time I bake (prolly tomorrowish or Thurs), as pre this month whenever I made that bread, we just sliced it as and when (which IS naughty as DH manages to take off massive hunks in 1 go!!).

ariarnia

weezl74 wrote: »

ariarnia that's interesting about the presentation. You'd more want a booklet than a website?

Basically, if I'm cooking thing's I've never tried before I want something I can take into the kitchen with me and I find one page of bumph that I can look at and work through more reassuring in paper form.

While there's no reason that the resource itself can't be on a website, having a downloadable (or easy copy paste laid out) step by step - now you do this - style thing which is downloadable (for either use at home as B&S haven't renewed their broadband package and are accessing the page from work or a public place, or because S doesn't have a laptop to take into the kitchen and get covered in flour) would be good.

I mean, on a fundamental level, why do people still buy cookery books when all the recipes are available online somewhere anyway?