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

weezl74

Hello BBH

Thanks for the bread tip :T:T:T

New calzone recipe now live, will upload pizza dough method now to go with it

weezl74

Julimk wrote: »

I’ve put the timings from shanks’ post on to the spreadsheet, but this only goes down to bread, on the original recipe list. I know that some of the new vegan recipes have now been tested, so if anyone has I would appreciate it if you could post the prep/cook times so these can be added.

Thanks!

thanks for getting so far so fast Julie wow!

Can I have where you've got to already, we can then have stats for all the non-testing recipes

weezl74

does everyone agree that the only things we're not recommending freezing is the spanish omelette and the pasta dishes?

SusanC_2

weezl74 wrote: »

well I know DH is sleep deprived but that takes the biscuit

:rotfl:

(You do know I meant Alice don't you.)

artybear wrote: »

Wowie Susan you are a woman of many talents:)

I didn't say I was actually any good at any of them. I'm a jack of all trades but master of none.

artybear

weezl74 wrote: »

does everyone agree that the only things we're not recommending freezing is the spanish omelette and the pasta dishes?

oui

I will post the list in a min-just watching the Queen do her thing:)

SusanC_2

weezl74 wrote: »

does everyone agree that the only things we're not recommending freezing is the spanish omelette and the pasta dishes?

Obvioulsy I haven't made these particular pasta dishes but I've found that with pasta dishes as long as I add some water when reheating and stir it every so often rather than doing it on one long blast they are fine.

weezl74

SusanC wrote: »

:rotfl:

(You do know I meant Alice don't you.)


I didn't say I was actually any good at any of them. I'm a jack of all trades but master of none.

yeah I guessed Alice, but thought I'd tease you

My DH is a good all rounder like you, I think it's great, to turn your hand to most things

I'm more of a either really good at something or spectaculary ungood. So I say to DH, you are a great all rounder and I am a great specialist. And then we both feel good

I also think that it's good you did those things whilst unemployed, I think it'd've been really depressing otherwise, because you are one of those always interested in things people. Rather than a sit all day in your dressing gown watching Jeremy Kyle type of person.

Claw_back_money

weezl74 wrote: »

hey aless

would love to link to defra but it would look to the google robots like an attempt to bump listings and so could result in us losing ranking or being delisted.

How else can I get round that?

I don't know the details of how google robots work, but is it looking for actual links? If so, just a thought on how you could give the info without giving the links and upsetting the robots. (This might be no good at all and not help in anyway). What about having a tab for 'links' and then listing the names of the organisations as you would want to but without giving the actual web address, grouped in whatever way and then either saying "links to follow" which would make people think it was a work in progress, or "links to follow when this site is more established" or somesuch - which would be closer to the whole truth but a bit clunky..... either way, you could list the name of the site, and say why you like it, and the person could then google it if they were interested......? Visitors can then get the information they need without it counting against the site.

Any good?

Cbm

Edited to add : you could put "links to follow" with a neat little hover box that explains why it is not good to add links at this stage. Shirley will be impressed with the techy-savviness and not mind having to google the link.

weezl74

Thanks Juliette forwarded to my dad for further development

If anyone is sat by their machine with a few spare mins, we need to come up with a '5 a day score' for each of the recipes (main evening meals only).

Rather than one person do them all which is clunky and laborious, perhaps folk could just say, 'I'll do the 3 soups!' or 'I'll do the xxx' and then we don't double up.

Here's the method if anyone fancies it:

it's 80g of fresh, frozen or canned F and v to one portion
it's 20g of dried F and V to one portion

so if a recipe had 2 cans tomatoes (800g), 130g onion and 40g dried weight chickpeas, you'd do, 800g/80 = 10 portions for the toms
130/80 = 1.625 portions for the onions

and 40/20 for the chick peas = 2 portions.

Therefore whole recipe = 13.625

then divide by 4 cos there's 4 of them eating it and round up or down to the nearest half a portion (this is how the FSA recommend recipes are done)

13.625/4= 3.40625 which is therefore counted as 3.5 of your 5 a day

Don't forget to count the side veg

I'm feeling strangely like a maths teacher now!!!!!:eek::rotfl:

edit, forgot to give time frame! If you pop on and bags one, it'd be helpful if you could then pop your result on here the next day

SusanC_2

weezl74 wrote: »

I also think that it's good you did those things whilst unemployed, I think it'd've been really depressing otherwise, because you are one of those always interested in things people. Rather than a sit all day in your dressing gown watching Jeremy Kyle type of person.

That was the worst thing about being pregnant: being so ill that the only thing I could do was sit around watching daytime TV. (But I did get dressed when OH came home at lunch times to help me.)

On the links, an alternative to actual links could be to put the url as text (i.e. so people would have to c&p rather than a hyperlink they just click).