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

weezl74

juliette,

When you're back, here is arty's list which I've tried to amend, some of them may not have uploaded tho, so It'll help to have another list of which ones made it

Breakfast pancakes
houmous
nut butter
tangy bean pate
lunch pate
bacon and onion pudding
bean curry
chicken and onion pie
roast chicken
chilli mince
spanish omelette
onion and potato soup
onion tart
pasta amatriciana
pasta carbonara
Hm pizza
green pea soup
spicey pea soup
HM bread
carrot cake
marmalade
mayonnaise
raisin biscuits
nut roast
tomato and olive pudding
red pepper tart
shepherdless pie
BNS tart


Are you in pain or is it OK?:(

there was another little project that I had earmarked for you, but no worries if you're full up!:D

weezl74

murrell sorry to thrust yet another job your way!

Whaddyaknow about saturated fats in a vegan diet? (I've been prompted by receiving Lesley's data this morning- yay for speedy lesley!:A)

How do you get yours?

Any probs relating to not having any?

Dummy question, is it only palm oil and coconut oil that are non-animal sources?

PS sorry the nut loaf was bad

It was a recipe created by that vegan loaf studio calculator... but I wonder if I didn't allow enough seasoning?

Jenny, lesley and murrell (ie all those who didn't like the loaf!) can any of you think of what might redeem it?

weezl74

OK, is there anything on the new vegan planner that we suspect might not freeze well?

And what things are a level 3 'skilled' option? Just the breads?

hornetgirl

I'm going to do the less nutty nut loaf this evening, so if anyone has suggestions to tweak it, please let me know. I'm a bit nervous since the last one was delicious and this one hasn't had good reports so far...

SusanC_2

Cashews are around 10% saturated fat if that's any use.

SusanC_2

As are peanuts.

SusanC_2

Brazil nuts 15%.
Sesame oil 14
Cocoa powder 13
Olive oil 12
Corn oil 11
Pecans 7
Pop corn 7
Rape seed oil 7

Bigjenny

Only thing I cam suggest for the peanut and kidney bean loaf is to reduce the oats and include a another kind of nut.

When I weighed out the oats it seemed an awful lot, and it made the loaf quite a soft texture when it was cooked.

Don't know what to suggest for herbs etc as I'm not a great user of them.

twinkle_star_2

Hi Weezl,

I'm not generally as nutrition-techno as Murrell is but as far as I'm aware the only fats necessary in a diet are the essential fatty acids as all others can be made by the body.

Vegan diets tend to be much lower in fat then an average British diet but some plant foods (nuts, seeds, coconuts, avocados, etc) include saturated fat (albeit in lower levels than in animal based foods) and plenty of others contain unsaturated fats.

Hope that helps.

weezl74

Lesley, with regard to the calorie deficit:

185 pppd lite

BUT, no marmite factored in, so that's an extra 9 cals a day if we add it all in, which we need to for the b12

and they are also buying their piece of fresh fruit daily.

If that was a banana (average 100cals) then we're laughing

But if they chose a satsuma, not so good.

but as people keep saying to me:

A) no-one's going to follow it exactly anyway
we're not a nanny state so we can't say-choose a banana! But we can say, we've calculated your daily need assuming you've bought a calorific fruit like a banana, but if you are dieting or don't need this much energy, feel free to buy satsumas etc.

How does this all sound...

Just thinking out loud really!