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

domesticgoddess789

We had some leftovers last night, I don't want to waste them!

After speaking to Weezl I am going to have a bash at writing a response to the above question for the project.

Therefore, if anyone has any leftover tips that I could add then please PM them to me

HowlinWolf

Thank you lorietta I have copied your points into my document so that I don't forget them and so that I can incorporate the bits you have suggested.

morag1202

weezl74 wrote: »

GDAs for soluble and insoluble fibre and the good providers of those in our diet?

Eat plenty of fibre

Giving your fibre a boost could be good for your heart, as well as your digestion. But most people in the UK don't eat enough fibre. We should all be eating 18g of fibre a day – in the UK men are having on average 15g a day.

To eat more fibre, try these things:

• choose wholegrain varieties whenever you can, such as wholegrain bread, wholegrain breakfast cereals, brown rice and wholemeal pasta
• eat more vegetables, dried fruit and pulses (such as beans and lentils)

More on fibre



Fibre

Most people don't eat enough fibre. Foods rich in fibre are a very healthy choice, so try to include a variety of fibre-rich foods in your diet. These are all rich in fibre: wholegrain bread, brown rice, pasta, oats, beans, peas, lentils, grains, seeds, fruit and vegetables.

Fibre is only found in foods that come from plants. There are two types of fibre: insoluble and soluble.

Insoluble fibre
This is the fibre that the body can't digest and so it passes through the gut helping other food and waste products move through the gut more easily.

Wholegrain bread, brown rice, wholegrain breakfast cereals and fruit and vegetables all contain this type of fibre.

Insoluble fibre helps to keep bowels healthy and stop constipation. And this means we are less likely to get some common disorders of the gut. Foods rich in this sort of fibre are more bulky and so help make us feel full, which means we are less likely to eat too much.

Soluble fibre
This fibre can be partially digested and may help to reduce the amount of cholesterol in the blood. Particularly good sources of soluble fibre include oats and pulses such as beans and lentils

Taken from the FSA site - can't find a figure for the split between soluble and insoluble though :mad:

weezl74

hey all just doing some spreadsheet work.

Really concerned about the tea survey results and how to accomodate that amount of tea in a subsistence planner. Bob and Shirl are paying 30p a day for everyone to have 5 cuppas a day it's over 9% of the budget :eek: Nearly a tenner over the month....

I'm just wondering what people think here, am I trying too hard to cater for this?

Any thoughts welcomed!

Weezl x

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artybear

Tea- apparently the british love the stuff (i hate it so cant comment) but surely we could buy the 28p tesco/asda tea bags or tea leaves or double up the tea bag.

How many cups do you drink Weezl (being the most frugal person I know)

XXX

HowlinWolf

weezl74 wrote: »

hey all just doing some spreadsheet work.

Really concerned about the tea survey results and how to accomodate that amount of tea in a subsistence planner. Bob and Shirl are paying 30p a day for everyone to have 5 cuppas a day it's over 9% of the budget :eek: Nearly a tenner over the month....

I'm just wondering what people think here, am I trying too hard to cater for this?

Any thoughts welcomed!

Weezl x

Weezl, I really think that it would be easier if all drinks were excluded from the budget and planner. We could give Shirley ideas like the lemon squash and say that in order to get the right amount of calcium and fats you need to consume x amount of milk. You can either drink this straight, make it into milkshake or use it in tea/coffee/hot chocolate. The choice is Shirl's.

weezl74

morag1202 wrote: »

Eat plenty of fibre

:T:T:T

brilliant, thanks so much , maybe for just the testing stage I'll just look at both types together.

Is anyone up for finding out the fibre content (per 100grams) of a few of the items on the shopping list, it's quite easy to just tap in into the USDA site and it tells you.

If we all did a few it'd be fairly easy to rattle them off tonight, I think we only have 20 items on the shopping list! Anyone got their googling fingers ready?

xxx

SusanC_2

weezl74 wrote: »

I really hope it's not too savoury and makes the cake beefy! Are you willing to put a teensy bit on your tongue and just check it doesn't have too strong a savoury flavour?

Just to reassure you, lard is fine to use in sweet things and doesn't impart a beefy (or a porky) taste to things. I always make baked porridge with lard because it tastes nicer made with lard than with butter or coconut oil.

lorietta

I don't drink tea at all, or really any hot drink (unless I am in a cafe and doing it to be social) so I don't think my opinion is worth much- but apart from milk, is there much nutritional benifit to tea- and one of them might like their tea black? I kind of agree with HowlinWolf in that we should leave drink choices to the family.

In my opinion, caffine is quite adictive, and my friend recently said he would find caffine in tea harder to give up than cigarettes. I was quite shocked by this. Because of my drink preferences, I don't really drink caffine. Probably the only time I have it is as part of a caffine drink with alchohol, but I do this less now, as aparently consuming caffine and alchohol at the same time is bad for your heart, so where possible I use lemonade or fruit juice.

What I'm trying to say is that I don't think tea is neccesary- getting all your food under £100 is a massive achivement, and I think if we were going to include a drink it should be one that has health benifits (like a fruit juice or milk) not one like tea that doesn't really.

But then I am a little odd about caffine.