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

SusanC_2

weezl74 wrote: »

thanks

Do you mean I should only allow fewer than banana calories as the fruit calories each day? Or stick with 100 cals being allowed for as the fruit?

Indeed, people can substitute for more expensive things ad infinitum, and probably will I'm kind of assuming that's fine, cos I'm still delivering what I said I would ie £100 a month within FSA healthy parameters.

I think it should be less than the amount of a banana. This is because you've set it up on the basis that people can have a choice of fruit within the parameters given (i.e. average family and 80p/person/day) but if you allow 100 calories per day for the fruit than it means there isn't that flexibility of fruit built in within the predetermined parameters as they would have to have a banana every day to stay within those parameters. Does that make sense?

weezl74

Lesley: info from jar of asda sundried toms:values drained per 100g
energy 186cal protein 4.1 carb 8.5 fat 15.1 of which saturates 1.7

do you want fibre and sodium?

eta, it doesn't give the undrained values but it looks like that would be entirely sunflower oil

weezl74

SusanC wrote: »

Does that make sense?

am I allowed to say yes it makes perfect sense, but then pout and be a bit huffy (but not at you!) cos it didn't go my way?! :rotfl:

Lesley_Gaye

weezl74 wrote: »

also...

you know we were using our remaining £21 (cos not all months have 31 days) to buy seasonings? Well garlic powder contains 340 cals per 100g, so that's a bit extra...

and the garam masala seems to be a further 320g per 100g

that takes it down to 22388

do you want the other nutritional info for those things in there?

weezl74

Lesley_Gaye wrote: »

that takes it down to 22388

do you want the other nutritional info for those things in there?

oh gosh lesley that sounds like a heap of work for you! I'm kinda only doing it to pre-empt and solve 'calorie gate' not because I want to fry your brain with extra numbers

taka

weezl74 wrote: »

yep! Precisely, we're paying 50p a kilo for fresh potatoes and achieving 79cals per 100g with them.

The oven chips are 47p per kilo, and 166cals per 100g

The ordinary ASDA baking potatoes are 40p/kg (so £1 for a 2.5kg bag) and the Smartprice potatoes are 37.5p/kg (so 94p a 2.5kg bag) if that helps. Not sure about the cost or amount of oil we'd need to up the calories to the same as the chips...

weezl74

taka wrote: »

The ordinary ASDA baking potatoes are 40p/kg (so £1 for a 2.5kg bag) and the Smartprice potatoes are 37.5p/kg (so 94p a 2.5kg bag) if that helps. Not sure about the cost or amount of oil we'd need to up the calories to the same as the chips...

Thanks Taka, that's helpful

I'm getting the smartprice potatoes as 50p a kilo grrrr :mad: is this a potcode thing d'you think? Is it these ones?

SusanC_2

weezl74 wrote: »

am I allowed to say yes it makes perfect sense, but then pout and be a bit huffy (but not at you!) cos it didn't go my way?! :rotfl:

Okay. extra text

weezl74

taka, :Awould you be able to tap the vegan shopping list into the asda search engine with your postcode, I'm wondering if this is a bit of a problem please feel very free to say no!

weezl74

SusanC wrote: »

Okay. extra text

there's no smiley for pouting cos it doesn't go my way!

Gah, I shall write to martin and demand it!