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

weezl74

Kez,

It's raisins rather than sultanas so that Shirley will eat her colours, which is the ideal way to do your 5 a day

Don't worry too much about helping Shirley to shop in different places, I feel we've got that covered. I think more what is most useful to the project is making sure that with only shopping weekly she has everything she needs to make each day's meals and snacks, particularly in advance of her batch cooking days, and that nothing will have a chance to go mouldy!

I think what would work well is if you and Allegra can liaise with each other (on here so others can help too) as I see it as being very important that the batch cooking guide fits in with the shopping list.

Kez/Allegra, how do you both feel about that suggestion?

Allegra, a shirley with no time and no storage, well I guess we can't help all of the people all of the time! I guess such a Shirley will need more pre-prepared foods, and this is outside our remit, so I think we'll have to allow that shirley to make her own way in the world. But we will carry on helping the shirley's we can

As I said earlier, they save £440 a year just by doing one of our dinners once a week! It doesn't take total buy-in to make a difference

weezl74

Hippeechiq wrote: »

Sorry if I sound like a cracked record (jeez! now I'm showin' me age ) but the
Tomatoey Scones recipe still states in the Method: Stir in the puree and then the oil, water, spices, vinegar and milk to get a soft dough, but has no milk or water listed in the Ingredients

Howzat? Better?

weezl74

OK so the sizes of tins issue:

Am I right in thinking this is what people want:

name of recipe

Kit needed: 8 inch pie dish (you may want to adjust the ingredient amounts if using a different size pie dish)

blah, blah...

weezl74

Bigjenny wrote: »

No you not going bonkers.

Its just that the method still says rub fat into flour until crumbly instead of stir oil into flour if that makes sense.

I'm retired now, but I love reading and was always a good at spelling.

ah! we were at cross purposes! I thought we were looking at tarte tatin, but I think you were meaning onion tart. Is that better now?:)

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weezl74

there are a few jobs coming up which I'd like to advertise:

check asda prices of current meaty meal planner. (skills required- can read a spreadsheet, can use mysupermarket.co.uk website- approx time taken 1 hr)

organise vegan meals into a weekly planner for the month, making sure the frequency of each dish is correct.(skills required- can read a spreadsheet, organised and detailed systematic brain- approx time taken 5-10 hrs)

A few other researching tasks:

costing a few more 'normal' family meals, time taken approx 20 mins, skills: read a recipe, use mysupermarket/asda shopping site, basic maths. I'd like a few volunteers for this.

Selenium, B12 and a few other vegan-related dietary nutrition questions...

Ringing asda customer services about kidney beans

more website checking, involving, suggesting correct sized cooking tins

Anyhow, please do say if you're up for any of the above tasks and I'll brief you, but do check first so that 2 people don't double up on a task by mistake

Love Weezl the bossy

Allegra

weezl74 wrote: »

Ah! Are tomatoes a no-no chez Allegra? Is DD not keen?

Gobi will go!

It's !!!!!!, I'm afraid ! He'll eat it if it's a smooth tomato sauce, but anything with actual tomato "lumps" is a problem. Though he did say bravely after noticing the change that he thought he could cope with it, considering all the bread involved, so I might try him out on it yet, if it's sandwiched between a couple of his favourites, to soften the blow

I'm up for liasing with Kez, as she is the exact opposite of me - no storage, a bit more time - whereas I abound in freezer space yet can only cook seriously once a week, so I need her perspective when embarking on the Delia-style guide.

And I like the "kit needed" type of layout. Although, if others don't, there is another option - at the end of the method (after bake in oven at whatever degrees for however many minutes), add "if you use this size tin, you will get this many slices out of it, for a different size tin you may need to adjust the volume of the ingredients".

I think we might still be able to help Shirley with no time and storage to an extent - even if she has no freezer space at all, just a tiny ice box in th fridge (which will be needed for the peas). It's probably gonna be no more than couple of sentences, as she'll need to learn how to fish pretty sharpish, but I was thinking that all cooked dishes can be kept safely in the fridge for 4 days - she can batch cook at weekends for the next four days (and even the bread will keep for four days wrapped in a cloth, it'll just go a bit hard and have to be toasted rather than eaten fresh), and make sure that she swaps the plan about that on Fridays she cooks things like omelette or carbonara. What do you reckon, eh ?

cheerfulness4

I just had to pop on a say that I've just followed the link to the website you're building together and it is truly amazing!
Such a lot of work and dedication to put together a resource that is so very much appreciated by families such as mine - we could almost be Bob and Shelia with our two hungry teenage sons. (well one is now 20)

Just wanted you to know that many of us will be very grateful for all this work you've done.

Sallygirl

When catching up this morning, I spotted that Weezl's server had gone down so I'm sending you some of the edits needed again. Sorry! Not nagging as I know you are just a little bit well occupied at the moment but thought you might have lost them. I do a lot of proof reading but don't like to mention all the surplus commas etc as I don't want to be accused of nitpicking when it is such a brilliant site. I've mentioned the website to all and sundry because it is soooo good. I can remember years back when the interest rate had gone up for the umpteenth time, that a news programme had a story about a family that were so hard hit that they had chips with a tin of oxtail soup poured over for dinner because "it was all they could afford". I remember shouting at the tv because there was so much rubbish spouted about how they could not eat properly and I wanted to shake some sense into their heads. Could just point them to the web site now.

Anyway - the errors:

In pasta carbonara:
Drain pasta reserving 100ml of the cooking water add the water back to the bacon pan, stirring to dissolve the bacon juices.
Needs punctuation.

In pasta alfredo:
Shove in oven at 180
Maybe a more usual technical term could be used...

In the method for the carrot cake recipe on the web site, there are a couple of stray capital letters:

Warm the Orange juice in a saucepan


Bake for 45 mins or until Dark golden brown

Dark is also in bold which might be for emphasis....

Lesley_Gaye

weezl74 wrote: »

going screen blind now, better turn in.

Lovely Lesley do you have a little weezl space tomorrow pm? x

got the far away funeral today, so it depends when we get back from that. Am just having a quick catch up (which is all I seem to be able to do lately) before setting off.

will sign on when we get back xx

Murrell

weezl74 wrote: »

there are a few jobs coming up which I'd like to advertise:

Selenium, B12 and a few other vegan-related dietary nutrition questions...

Hiah,

I can volunteer for this one, I shall log on again about 12:30 to see what tasks I have.

Bye for now
Sandra
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