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

artybear

Weezl clear your pm box and ill send your my emailxxx

SusanC_2

weezl74 wrote: »

so already the things I can see, would you perhaps have a think about a way of embellishing the nutrition section of the site?

I know you've been reading the threads so you know how very much thought has gone into the nutritional choices. Barely any of that is even hinted at on that page.

This would be a rather time consuming way of doing it but if each recipe had a nutritional information box available (possibly a clickable thing like on mysupermarket) then that might help. I doubt that many people would actually spend very much time (if any) actually reading the detail of the information but it's presence would reassure them that time had been spent on the nutritional aspect IYSWIM.

Or perhaps a table of overall nutritional information which gives a daily average of the montly plan.

With regard to addressing individual nutrients, it would be useful to find out what nutrients people would be most concerned about (or most concerned about in a low cost meal planner) and address those particular ones.

I think whilst the nutritional aspect does need to be present it needs to be fairly unobstrusive as making too big a thing of it could put people off.

Perhaps adding the "why" feature to other ingredients (than the instant oaty cereal) which are there for particular nutritional reasons might be helpful?

Incidentally I just read the "why" on the instant oaty cereal and whilst it does say you need it because of calcium/vit B12, it doesn't specifically say you should have it instead of oats. Maybe it's just me but I think it should specifically say that it needs to be hot oaty cereal rather than oats.

weezl74

Sian_the_Green wrote: »

Pick me! Pick me!

picked- many thanks sian :A

Can you set the account up?

When we have an address, I'll publish a contact us page and shirley can start writing love letters to sian

Arty, sorry I'll clear some space now!

weezl74

SusanC wrote: »

This would be a rather time consuming way of doing it but if each recipe had a nutritional information box available (possibly a clickable thing like on mysupermarket) then that might help. I doubt that many people would actually spend very much time (if any) actually reading the detail of the information but it's presence would reassure them that time had been spent on the nutritional aspect IYSWIM.

Or perhaps a table of overall nutritional information which gives a daily average of the montly plan.

With regard to addressing individual nutrients, it would be useful to find out what nutrients people would be most concerned about (or most concerned about in a low cost meal planner) and address those particular ones.

I think whilst the nutritional aspect does need to be present it needs to be fairly unobstrusive as making too big a thing of it could put people off.

Perhaps adding the "why" feature to other ingredients (than the instant oaty cereal) which are there for particular nutritional reasons might be helpful?

Incidentally I just read the "why" on the instant oaty cereal and whilst it does say you need it because of calcium/vit B12, it doesn't specifically say you should have it instead of oats. Maybe it's just me but I think it should specifically say that it needs to be hot oaty cereal rather than oats.

fab ideas, thanks would the calories and fat grams and 5 a day portions in columns next to the recipes go some way towards that susan?

so if I added ...because these are vitamin enriched.... after I mention the cereal...? Or shoould I specifically say 'don't swap for plain oats!'?

If someone ever wanted a small task of looking over my google analytics every now and again to draw out key trends, she would be very welcome. If I had a friend who was just about enough as geeky as me to manage it...:whistle:

SusanC_2

You should be able to create an e-mail address using the domain nam for the website and have it set up to forward to another address. This would look better than having a hotmail address. (Although if you have a contact form then the e-mail address won't be on display anyway.)

shanks77

weezl74 wrote: »

shanks:A, I know you have done huge amounts for the project, but I wondered if you'd be willing to go through the recipes list and put an estimate of time to prep the dish and time to cook the dish:

ie

Bacon pudding
45mins/2.5 hrs (prep/cook)

nut butter
10/0

that type of thing?

If you say no I'll send a wrath ball!

You leave me no choice!!!!!!! Yes ok (looks to the skies in fear) otherwise one of them will make their way to me:rotfl::rotfl:
Leave it with me and i will see what i can do. xx

weezl74

SusanC wrote: »

With regard to addressing individual nutrients, it would be useful to find out what nutrients people would be most concerned about (or most concerned about in a low cost meal planner) and address those particular ones.

Can people please have a ponder what nutrients shirl might be most worried about?

For my mum, she said 'but how can there be enough protein?' when seeing how low the budget was...

Is she the norm?

SusanC_2

weezl74 wrote: »

fab ideas, thanks would the calories and fat grams and 5 a day portions in columns next to the recipes go some way towards that susan?

Possibly although I don't know whether those are what people would be most worried about. (I do think people would find that information useful though.) It's more what would people expect to be deficient in a cheap meal planner? I would guess the concerns people would have about it would be similar to those about a vegetarian/vegan diet i.e. protein, iron and calcium. It's not that people would normally be concerned about those things (unless they are low in iron or something :whistle:) but just that those are the things they wouldn't believe a cheap meal planner could provide and would therefore want reassurance of. I think calories/fat etc. are things that people would be generally interested in and are defintiely worth including in the way you have described but I was also thinking along the lines of addressing those key nutrients which would be a barrier to people using the planner because they wouldn't think they were there. Does that make sense.

weezl74 wrote: »

so if I added ...because these are vitamin enriched.... after I mention the cereal...? Or shoould I specifically say 'don't swap for plain oats!'?

If it said, "We are using... cereal rather than oats..."
Or "We are using... cereal which is fortified..."
Or at the end of the blurb said "to stay healthy because regular oats are not fortified."
Just something which either specifically mentions that they are fortified or that regular oats aren't and therefore shouldn't be used if following the full plan.

weezl74 wrote: »

If someone ever wanted a small task of looking over my google analytics every now and again to draw out key trends, she would be very welcome. If I had a friend who was just about enough as geeky as me to manage it...:whistle:

You have a friend who spends lots of time doing totally unecessary statistical analysis just for the fun of it and would be quite happy to do what you said.

weezl74

arty- email should have arrived.

Unzip it, double click to open the folder then double click on the file called 'index' it will open in Googe chrome if that's your default browser. You may need to allow active x controls if you get a little pop up window....

weezl74

SusanC wrote: »

You have a friend who spends lots of time doing totally unecessary statistical analysis just for the fun of it and would be quite happy to do what you said.

:j:j:j:j:j:j

Spookily I feel like we have a very well balanced set of skills in this merry bunch I don't think a major corporation could've headhunted all these great skills we have in one place... How fab

Speaking of which Aless, you used to work for DEFRA right?

I'm just wondering about whether you ever had anything to do with the stats types?