Weezl and friends Phase 2 -giving it a whirl for Shirl! Testing meal plan for a month

weezl74

frankie I admire your resolve to continue, but also I wouldn't personally think of it as a failure even if you had you took some things back to asda and you probably wouldn't have spent much more than that on some family friendly toast toppers

I was meaning to say as well that I think the orange flim flam could so easily become a marmalade (it's only 6p worth of sugar difference!) and I know your children like jams and marmalades, so I hope you don't feel you'd have to make hugely costly additions to make it friendly for them, iyswim?

weezl74

In our family, no-one is called by their real name!

fergie's real name is Jonathan, but today he is Gussie-wah, or sherif green pants. Kester is Kessie-wah. DH calls me weezl, cariad-bach or littl'un. I call him guappy, or Steeeble.

when ISOM comes to our house we call her by her proper real life name. But she calls us weezl and mr weezl even though we've been real life friends not just MSE ones for 2 years now

Ahem.

As you were

weezl74

Aless sorry about your interview yesterday, and arty, pop on and say how yours went? I was thinking of you:)

aless02

weezl74 wrote: »

In our family, no-one is called by their real name!

fergie's real name is Jonathan, but today he is Gussie-wah, or sherif green pants. Kester is Kessie-wah. DH calls me weezl, cariad-bach or littl'un. I call him guappy, or Steeeble.

when ISOM comes to our house we call her by her proper real life name. But she calls us weezl and mr weezl even though we've been real life friends not just MSE ones for 2 years now

Ahem.

As you were

LOL, now I definitely won't feel bad about calling you weezl in the middle of the museum . We have all sorts of nicknames here, too (as I'm sure most families do!) but not many generally used in public .

Bigjenny

Asda have an offer of 4 appples, 4 pears, 4 kiwi fruit, 3 oranges or a mango for 27p a pack at the moment, but it finishes on Sunday so I didn't include them in the sample.
This would fall within the budget but these sort of offers only run for a few days.:(

Perhaps someone could count the soft citrus in a net and price them when they are in the supermarket to see if they would allow kitty some fruit in the budget.:)

Lesley_Gaye

made a loaf using ordinary Asda SP white flour today. Worked very well, very pleased. I am using extra large tins that make a loaf the size and shape of the loaves called 'long tins' in the baker. DP and I prefer the larger slice shape, more conventional

I beat up the dough in the food mixer with the dough hook for 4 mins (as per Paul Merrett), rise it once in the tins and cook at 180C for an hour

made a lovely crispy crusted, tasty loaf. Will add some seeds next time. I prefer wholemeal, DP thinks wm tastes too strong and prefers granary, but granary flour is hard to find and expensive. I tried a seedy mix, which I thought was granary, but turned out to be white with seeds in, and he liked that. So I can reproduce that type quite easily

the large tins use 940g flour at a time, so that's 27p in flour, plus yeast, salt and power for the oven

tried reducing the pictures, but they are still coming out really big - sorry

weezl74

SusanC wrote: »

I think my real name is pretty obvious.


I'm glad you said that - I did wonder if everyone would think me a complete weirdo for dishing out in such a detailed way.


I quite regularly call my daughter Pooh Bear in public. (Obviously) it isn't her real name but she's almost always going by a different name to her real one. The most embarrassing was probably going round a supermarket calling her "Monkey".

:rotfl:

Lesley_Gaye wrote: »

made a loaf using ordinary Asda SP white flour today. Worked very well, very pleased. I am using extra large tins that make a loaf the size and shape of the loaves called 'long tins' in the baker. DP and I prefer the larger slice shape, more conventional

I beat up the dough in the food mixer with the dough hook for 4 mins (as per Paul Merrett), rise it once in the tins and cook at 180C for an hour

made a lovely crispy crusted, tasty loaf. Will add some seeds next time. I prefer wholemeal, DP thinks wm tastes too strong and prefers granary, but granary flour is hard to find and expensive. I tried a seedy mix, which I thought was granary, but turned out to be white with seeds in, and he liked that. So I can reproduce that type quite easily

the large tins use 940g flour at a time, so that's 27p in flour, plus yeast, salt and power for the oven

great loaves lesley :T:T:T

can we have a linkie to where you got your tins please

jenny thanks for extra research :beer::beer:

perhaps whoever is in asda next could check out the nets of soft citrus?

Potty are you in there mid-shifts tonight?

xxx

weezl74

aless02 wrote: »

panzanella what's this?


Anything that involves cabbage and/or cauliflower is a major no from me maybe trying more of these meals will cut down on our cheese consumption

there's no cabbage in the bubble and squeak Aless

panzanella is an italian bread salad I posted a recipe back along, and I think it's on arty's index

hornetgirl

Lesley that bread looks delicious.

kezlou

Hi everyone, sorry i haven't been on, everything just went haywire and well yeah, it wasn't good.
Have been following the meal though, which is good.Well at least i think it is lol

Tried the pate in the pack lunches, total no go, DS2 got tormented because according to the other children he was "eating poo". So its back on with ham,tuna, salad + cheese. Sorry Weezl, i did try.


capers - tried these out of a jar and theyw ere nasty. No idea cooked though
roasted red peppers - we roast our own eat them yummy
gherkins - nom nom nom (DS2 chopping on one as we speak)
pickled red cabbage - nom nom nom (DS1 - scooping them out of a jar as we speak)

hornetgirl - that bread looks lush !!!!!

Finally making the Pasta Alfredo tonight, em i'm not looking forward tot his in the slightest, as its the first time i have use pork fat i.e lard. Not even sure how yo make a roux?! But it looks like a sauce lol

Will try and catch up with you all. x