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

Sallygirl

The site is looking fabulous-er now

I was just checking the recipe I want to cook this weekend - Shepherdless pie - and spotted that the instructions say:
Taste and add marnmite if needed

I've got a vegetarian friend popping round for a quick meal so I thought I'd try this dish because I can prepare it in advance.

ps Made the coconut loaf when the oven was on last night. Couldn't believe that such a sloppy mixture would be ok but it is lovely. Thanks Allegra et al.

keggie

hi again,

I can get to all the recipes but not the new recipes for you to try out. just get the photo but I go nowhere. I've refreshed and deleted history etc.

Any ideas?

queen_of_string

Funnily enough, I have the shopping list printed off to do a comparison!! It was on my to do list, but now I know someone else is interested in it, I'll bump it up higher on the list .

I dont think the foreign visitors are coming from me. I barely know anyone here and all my FB friends are in the UK ( barr one).

Speaking personally, I use websites from the UK and North America for recipes and have become used to swopping between the two ways of measuring things. There may be lots of other people who do this too.

I think the website is useful to get all people thinking about how to do things cheaply, and some foods are likely to be cheap everywhere ( eg chick peas and cooking bacon). I know one of the things I have taken from learning about this way of cooking, is to have less variety on the plate and cook with fewer ingredients and still make yummy things. Each person will take different things. I know while living in the UK I spent some time on the hillbilly housewife site, the fact that it was American didn't stop me trawling the site for things that might be useful to me.

I the USA food is cheap. Here in Canada, there simply aren't enough of us and the distances food has to travel are just so great, that food is expensive. Living here on a low income could be a real issue ( hence all the food banks and food programmes). Canada also has restrictive trade laws about eggs, cheese, milk and other things, which probably keep prices higher too. I think Canadians could definitely take things from the site.


On the "bringing Dad (Bob) round" theme, would it be worth mentioning to Shirley that she doesn't have to do the whole plan or nothing? Knowing that its perfectly ok to introduce it slowly, or just pick and choose what works, or any version you know works in your family is ok too. With the obvious proviso that that might affect the overall nutrition. Testimonies from the testers might help here.

SusanC_2

queen_of_string wrote: »

Speaking personally, I use websites from the UK and North America for recipes and have become used to swopping between the two ways of measuring things. There may be lots of other people who do this too.

I tend to use American recipe sites more than British ones. I hate metric so I prefer the units used in American recipes.

aless02

and as an american in britain, i use us and uk cooking sites equally, but then again i'm prolly not the norm (silent prayers for kessie's improvement, weezl!)

shanks77

Hi everyone sorry not been around today real life got in the way. Also having to clean my house:eek::eek: as i have friends round for a meal and copious quantites of alcohol. (wish i could give them the alcohol before they came round then wouldnt have to clean so much:rotfl:.
Weezl i also take criticism very much to heart and its easier to say than do i know but these people dont know you, have no idea how much time and effort you have put into this project and are obviously ill informed or a bit illerate if they dont read about the fact that we have tried to follow all the guidelines for nutrition. At the end of the day these people are not worth bothering about and you should concentrate on the folk that are finding this planner helpful and if folk dont like it tough **** they are not worth you getting upset over and at the end of the day you can please some of the people (Sorry overusing that word) some of the time............
Will be on at some point tomorrow as a break from cleaning. Done some today and did some cooking as well so not too much to do. Make chicken lasagne, hummous (Weezl style) chocolate cream pie and cut up some crudities.
I am one of these types that would be devestated to find out the someone had been to my house for a meal and left saying "that was fine but i am still hungry" so i make sure there is enough to feed everyone on here:rotfl::rotfl:So if you are all hungry wrap up well and follow the welsh wrath ball up to Scotland and i will wine and dine you all.
Ps love the new additions to the site
Sorry to waffle on folks xx

weezl74

chicken lasagne?

I have never heard of such a thing! Let me know how it goes?

Is chocolate cream pie a bit like a chocolate cheesecake?

Thanks all for your kind thoughts of yesterday

We also have visitors so my attendance may be a little sporadic over the weekend

Fergus gets to see his Uncle P tho, so this is very exciting. I like my brother a lot, and count him as a good friend

A few of our regulars have been MIA for a bit, hope you are well? Howlin, frankie and potty, hope you're ok? x

CBM, I hope you got my PM, did you think I handled those changes ok? Happy to make further ones as I trust your judgement

weezl74

keggie wrote: »

hi again,

I can get to all the recipes but not the new recipes for you to try out. just get the photo but I go nowhere. I've refreshed and deleted history etc.

Any ideas?

Right, let's see if we can get this properly diagnosed for you, what a shame!

Firstly, what browser are you using?

Secondly, what happens when you make the click on the hyperlink, does it look like anything is 'trying' to happen, ie does the page appear to refresh?

What happens in the bottom left hand corner status bar as you click?

I'm sure we can solve it!

Well done for clearing cache that would have been my initial suggestion

In_Search_Of_Me

morning! Re international visitors would it b worth putting a para in just to say its uk prices and that due to the fact that countries have unique pricings its impossible to guarantee low costs worldwide - ie in uk eggs cost 10p and 50p in canada (dont know if they do that was a guess lol!!) but that you hope that money will be saved overall?
Good that you have some lovely visitors to stay weezl...hope you will at least take the weekend off any enjoy (even though the weather's carp!)

Allegra

weezl74 wrote: »

QOS I also notice that we are getting a fair few visits from folk not in the uk, and yet to my mind the site is only really useful to people in the UK.

I disagree with this. How many times did you see folk on the OS recommend hillbilly housewife or another US site ? Okay, you site will not be immediately here's-a-fish, stuff-your-face useful to anyone outside UK, but it will still be invaluable to anyone learning how to fish, because the principles are sound, the design is attractive, and the recipes appealing.

I am hoping to be able to pop on and off during the day in between packing and other RL stuff, but in case I don't get a chance to say "see ya" properly, we're flying off to Cro tomorrow morning, and will be back next Friday afternoon, so try not to chat too much, eh ? Else I'll never catch up with the lot of you on my return