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

weezl74

kitty's pasta salad with Mary berry style salad dressing.

250g pasta
100g green peas
70ml veg oil
dessertspoon balsamic
dessertspoon dried oregano
teaspoon mustard powder
60g onion sliced as thinly as your knife will allow.
2 teaspoons of sugar
salt and pepper to taste

cook pasta and drain it

make a dressing with oil,vinegar, sugar, herbs and mustard, and mix with the peas, onion and pasta.

Should serve 4 as a lunch option

Lesley_Gaye

or there's this one here

''In mediaeval times biscuits were made from a sweetened, spiced paste of breadcrumbs and then baked (ie gingerbread) or from cooked bread enriched with sugar and spices and then baked again. They were thus cooked twice and the name biscuit probably come from the old French bes cuit "twice cooked".''

shanks77

Has anyone got walnuts pumpkin seeds and oil and a little sugar in the cupboard?

I need a breakfast spread for kitty tested [/QUOTE]

Yes i have all of those as i bought the walnuts last month before the planner got changed. Let me know what you are thinking and i will try this week.
First night was ok the guy that is training me is lovely but not good at passing on info and i am on with him tonight then on Fri am on my own:eek: so hope i get better training tonight.
Will pop on tomorrow but am apologising in advance for any post that sound weird as i am coming off of night shift and going to my old job for day shift 11-7.30pm so if i talk a heap of cr*p you know why.
Hope everyone is ok xx

PS Rainbow sent package today so hopefully you will receive it in the next day or so xx

Lesley_Gaye

Lesley_Gaye wrote: »

Edit - Wow! the food standards agency website says that 120g baked beans provides 1.7mg and an egg provides 50mg. There are 5 tins (2100g) of baked beans and 30 eggs in planner one, so these 2 items alone provide 1529mg of the required 1618mg, so the plan provides much more than enough iron for Shirley, Bob and the kids

oops, misread the site for the amount in eggs. One egg is a 50g serving (not providing 50mg iron) providing 1 mg of iron - sorry folks

will carry on looking for iron rich foods and adding it into the month one planner - if you still want this Weezl?

weezl74

Lesley_Gaye wrote: »

oops, misread the site for the amount in eggs. One egg is a 50g serving (not providing 50mg iron) providing 1 mg of iron - sorry folks

will carry on looking for iron rich foods and adding it into the month one planner - if you still want this Weezl?

it would be fab if you are interested in it lesley, but it's not a super urgent one, because the good old ready oats provide 89mg of iron per box and we have 7 boxes

weezl74

aw shanks! that sounds horrid I hope it goes well

weezl74

ps didn't mean that bit about the iron to be dismissive lesley

r.a.i.n.b.o.w

weezl74 wrote: »

that sounds tasty rainbow! You seem to know a fair bit about GI eating, do you know if because our bread is fortified with oats (on kitty's planner) and eaten with protein rich foods like chick peas, does that make the GI any better? Or is it kinda just bread is a GI high item regardless?

PS I knew you weren't meaning about the planner with the GI bit, I was just interested:)

Well, the GI of the bread would be MUCH better if it was wholegrain. This is because white flour is processed, and so is quickly converted into glucose by the pancreas. Wholegrain (and oats) doesn't give that "sugar spike" as it takes longer to digest and convert - but would still certainly be better eaten with a protein to slow the process down further.

So in theory the oat-fortified bread eaten with protein DOES make a small difference, but the white flour remains high-GI. If the bread was wholegrain it would make a huge difference - even better if it was a wholegrain AND oats bread.

Hope some of that makes sense

(I was planning to do a short "human nutrition" course this year, but life keeps getting in the way! :mad: )

weezl74

Kitty's walnut spread for breakfast

300g walnuts
10g sugar
100ml veg oil
80g pumpkin seeds
teaspoon garam masala

blitz in food processor, drizzling in oil, untill you have a runny paste consistency. Aim for something in between smooth and crunchy peanut butter, but a lot looser

aless02

weezl, don't you know your naughtiness belongs on the PT :rotfl:

Green pea hummus sounds perfectly vile to me, but I'm not Englishbred to love peas!