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

Murrell

SusanC wrote: »

You need site meter or stat counter to track visits. (And I am one of your followers.) I think the way you linked probably helped the click through rate i.e. you linked to specific recipes in a post about some recipes you were trying whereas I did a general post about the website as a whole. The way you did it is better both from a traffic point of view and from a google/page rank point of view.

Thanks for the info Susan and for being a follower! I shall look into site meter.

Sandra
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shanks77

Hi everyone well i am still awake and compos mentis for a short time anyway. Lesley your pics look great and almost make me want to try it again to see if i can make it the Weezl way.
Weezl i will need to find out what tasks you have found time to complete or not as the case may be over the next couple of days. Some are simple things like spelling changes others involve picture changes and a few might take a bit more time but being superhuman these will prob take you mere seconds.:) I am on 8.30-7.30 tomorrow so will try and pop on and a) go thru the list and see if i can see that you have completed some things and b) make a list so that you know what the heck you have to do and can let me know what sort of time frame they will take so that i dont nag you every 5 mins.
Hope everyone had a good day today. I am going to watch some telly for a short time and hope i dont crash out. Considering i have now been up for 28hrs i feel not too bad but will prob fall asleep in the middle of typing thisssssssssssssssssssssssssss JOKE!!!!!
Speak to you all later xx

Hippeechiq

weezl74 wrote: »

Hippeeechiq, An idea for you to have a ponder on.

Of all the recipe testers to date, my feeling is that you are one of the most rigorous and exact at the level of I sense you are not one to add in a little of this that and the other, or to do what arty and I do, like missing out the blind baking or somesuch.

Oh dear, that makes me sound a bit stern :rotfl: You're right on the money though. I do like an exact recipe to follow and I don't deviate from it, though that's mainly due to a lack of confidence at not wanting to ruin what I'm cooking/baking.

weezl74 wrote: »

I appreciate you had a frustrating time with the recipe, and I'm very sorry about that, but rather than go off in a huff thinking 'oh well all the recipes must be rubbish' you have bothered to come back and say, which I really value.:)

You're very welcome, and honestly, no apology is necessary Weezl That's exactly why I come back with my questions, because I don't want Shirl to try - what might be her first recipe -and then not bother to return to the site because she had problems. I have so much admiration for you, and your idea and really want the site to be an unmitigated success!

weezl74 wrote: »

So I''m wondering if you'd be willing to apply your rigorous testing to any of our other recipes?

Unfortunately, I'm not the ideal candidate for a number of reasons...I have a DSS who wont eat anything other than (shop bought - and a particular one at that!) pizza and chips. He's 21 and wont be co-erced into eating anything else, though I've spent a number of years trying, and he's a man now, so what can I do? I also, sadly, have a DD who suffers from Borderline Personality Disorder (along the lines of depression, but much, much worse) and most days I can't get her to eat at all My OH wouldn't like soups/risottos/houmous/nut butter/omelettes and so on and so you see, we're far from the "average" family.

I'm so sorry - as I would like to be involved in some way. I'm just not sure in what way, especially as life pretty much revolves around DD at the moment x

Lesley Thanks for that last photo - I know what I'm aiming for next time now

Arty Thanks for your post I'm sure all this info will help me next time. And well done as mastering pastry!
How long did you cook the tart for then given that you didn't bake it blind please?

Hippeechiq

shanks77 wrote: »

. Considering i have now been up for 28hrs i feel not too bad but will prob fall asleep in the middle of typing thisssssssssssssssssssssssssss JOKE!!!!!
Speak to you all later xx

:T Well done you! You must be shattered. How is the new job?

Sian_the_Green

Has anyone read this thread before? Has just had me laughing out loud several times

weezl74

good morning all,

Hippeeeechiq, thank you so much for your lovely message, and I'm very sorry to read about poor DD

I don't have much to say that's particulary on topic

But today we plan to buy fergie his first bucket and spade very exciting.

Lesley, I am thinking of investing in a much larger monitor for my PC so as to work better with the fab spreadsheet What size monitor do you have?

Also, arty:o big favour request... I wonder if I sent you the spreadsheet and you looked at it on your 22inch monitor, you might do a screen grab of what I'd see, so I don't invest in something that won't be fit for purpose?

It's just that it's going to be £260 ish, so I'd like to get it right:rotfl:

After shirl and kitty don't need it anymore, we can watch DVDs on it as a family

Lesley_Gaye

The thread is about online supermarket orders and bizarre substitutions

Just had a quick look at some of them and a laugh to myself, some of them really are quite bizarre. Such as the substituting of Twix bars for Tampax!! As the poster says, imagine the mess :rotfl:

This one caught my eye however, and I wondered how Shirley might cope with this situation, any ideas Weezl?

''I ordered ground spice (garam masala), but ended up with a bottle of old spice - haven't looked back since... ''

Incidentally, I was in the CoOp yesterday getting some of the washing liquid on offer for my daughter and had a look at the whoopsie trolley - never much on it, but you never know. Anyway, there were several jars of a Polish product - onions in lard. Course, a picture of our Weezl instantly popped into my head and I stood there giggling, good job there wasn't anyone else in that aisle at the time!

Lesley_Gaye

weezl74 wrote: »

good morning all,

Hippeeeechiq, thank you so much for your lovely message, and I'm very sorry to read about poor DD

I don't have much to say that's particulary on topic

But today we plan to buy fergie his first bucket and spade very exciting.

Lesley, I am thinking of investing in a much larger monitor for my PC so as to work better with the fab spreadsheet What size monitor do you have?

Also, arty:o big favour request... I wonder if I sent you the spreadsheet and you looked at it on your 22inch monitor, you might do a screen grab of what I'd see, so I don't invest in something that won't be fit for purpose?

It's just that it's going to be £260 ish, so I'd like to get it right:rotfl:

After shirl and kitty don't need it anymore, we can watch DVDs on it as a family

I used to have a desktop with a pretty big screen, but a power surge blew it up, well destroyed the hard disk completely, so much so that the disk itself wouldn't fire up so the engineer couldn't get any data off it. Thank heavens to Betsy for a separate, external back up drive that is only switched on in order to back up, so didn't get fried. I always use a surge protector too, fat lot of good that did me

The insurance company allowed me to buy a new one and I had a fancy for a laptop instead of a desktop, so I just use that to look at the spread sheet. I use about 85% size. This all happened at least a year ago, so all our spreadsheety stuff has been done on the laptop.

Do you want to be able to see the whole thing in one go then?

weezl74

Lesley_Gaye wrote: »

Anyway, there were several jars of a Polish product - onions in lard. Course, a picture of our Weezl instantly popped into my head and I stood there giggling, good job there wasn't anyone else in that aisle at the time!

Well! A new recipe for the planner lesley, well done

weezl74

*wonders if we need a polish version of the site*

Lesley, I think if I was in a different life phase looking at the spreadsheet on my existing kit would be fine! It's that I make a tweak to a recipe (say a panzanella) and then need to see if that's left me with a minus amount of onions, say. So I make the change, and then start scrolling to the right, saying over to myself, panzanella onions, panzanella onions...

Then Kester squawks, and I pop his dummy in/adjust his blankie, whatever. The I go, 'right where was I?' answer, 'errr, absolutely no idea!'

and then start again!

So it makes a relatively short task pretty immense, cos I'm not holding the data well in my tired brain!

Not a flaw in the spreadsheet tho, just a severe case of 'mummy brain'!

Are you thinking a larger monitor isn't a great solution?

Also- I must buy a harddrive and back up CFR to it, it would be so sad if all the hard work died like yours sadly did!! good reminder!