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

aless02

Facebook page created

(happy to add anyone as friends!)

(weezl, I can change anything you need - I just pulled text from the website; hope that's okay - just off to feed Finn so will come back in half an hour if there's any urgent amendments needed )

Lesley_Gaye

Sian_the_Green wrote: »

Have you ever made runner bean pickle? I went out with a guy whose Mum made it, absolutely delicious and pretty easy too! I made it myself when I was a younger lass. I would highly recommend it, and would make a great Christmas gift (for me at the meet in Sept he he)

This recipe sounds like the one I used

thanks Sian, I have printed it off and put in my file

Lesley_Gaye

artybear wrote: »

I'm still writing this bloody thing-think it will be a late night for me tonight....:(

reminds me of my years of doing an OU degree. You can't get ahead much as the course workbooks aren't delivered early enough, and over the nine months of the course, most people gradually have to run faster and faster to try and keep up (most OU students are working at the same time). And the final piece of work to be handed in is a struggle. For several years I was up and struggling to stay awake and think into the small hours, then straight out, into the car and trying to find some tutors house, with no number, just a name, in a dark lane in the wilds somewhere, so I could post it through their letterbox and not miss the deadline

so sympathies arty, and I'm blooming glad it's not me!

Lesley_Gaye

weezl74 wrote: »

lesley are you around?

We hit a query with the nutrition calcs:)

long country walk, lunch in the pub and WI gardening group yesterday. A good day

I'm around for most of today except for 12-2

Lesley_Gaye

weezl74 wrote: »

Lesley

My dad notes you've changed carrot cake to 'meat' but my version has no lard, so I'm wondering if we are working of different spreadsheets, and I'm sorry cos that's my version control error

Do you think that might explain discrepancies?

just had a look and yes, it says meat, but I didn't change any of the existing columns.

can you say what the discrepancies are?

Allegra

Howlin Wolf was doing the "how to" guide/glossary.

Lesley, when were you at the OU ? It's just that you seem so darn familiar, I am sure I must have come across you somewhere before !

Looks like I'm gonna have to cave in at last and create a facebook profile for myself, Aless....

Lesley_Gaye

Sian_the_Green wrote: »

In the grow your own advice did Lesley mean that raspberries didn't cost much? Otherwise it seems like it is expensive to grow them yourself

Hugs to all!

what I meant re raspberries is buying the fruit from a shop costs a fortune, but 5 canes would yield enough to pay for themselves in the first year

Ken Muir has some Glen Moy for example. 5 canes for £11.56 and his grow your own fruit guide advises that 5 canes would yield about 5.4kg pa. Frozen raspberries in Asda are currently 57p/100g, so 5.4kg would cost £30.78.

Growers say that canes will fruit for 10-12 years before needing to be replaced. So if you get 5kg a year for 10 years, you have 50kg of raspberries costing 23p a kilo, plus any support system, netting and fertiliser - bargain!

weezl74

Lesley_Gaye wrote: »

long country walk, lunch in the pub and WI gardening group yesterday. A good day

I'm around for most of today except for 12-2

hiya,

I'm trying to get the exellent spreadsheet to cope with the 3 loaves of bread, one carrot loaf and 4 calzone batch masterpiece I added yesterday!

I've got as far as cloning HM bread twice more and attempting to express 5 dough batches, 3 bread 1 carrot, 1 master calzone (with extra ingreds added)

the column I'm struggling with then is the one which controls portions and batches.

Is any of that making any sense and can you see/think of a way the sheet could accomodate it?

Sorry if that's fried your brain!

(glad you had a nice day yesterday!)

weezl74

Lesley_Gaye wrote: »

what I meant re raspberries is buying the fruit from a shop costs a fortune, but 5 canes would yield enough to pay for themselves in the first year

Ken Muir has some Glen Moy for example. 5 canes for £11.56 and his grow your own fruit guide advises that 5 canes would yield about 5.4kg pa. Frozen raspberries in Asda are currently 57p/100g, so 5.4kg would cost £30.78.

Growers say that canes will fruit for 10-12 years before needing to be replaced. So if you get 5kg a year for 10 years, you have 50kg of raspberries costing 23p a kilo, plus any support system, netting and fertiliser - bargain!

pink hayley, any chance we can add these excellent thoughts to the GYO guide?

weezl74

Lesley_Gaye wrote: »

just had a look and yes, it says meat, but I didn't change any of the existing columns.

can you say what the discrepancies are?

I'm sure they're not your fault!

Dad multiplied carbs and protein by 4 (cals per gram) and fat by 9 (cals per gram) to attempt to duplicate the calorific value, (not checking up on you, just he was trying to automate it for future sheets) it worked perfectly for carbonara (ie your cals and his were identical) but then eg chick and onion pie was 100 cals out. He was low by 100 and we are just scratching our heads about whether we've missed something