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

Julimk

Thanks for your comments about my brother. The reason I wasn’t around yesterday was that I was introducing a distant cousin I found through family history research to other members of the family & everyone agreed that if you stuck a dodgy tash on my brother he was the spitting image of a certain author of the same surname.

Anyway, was what I posted about the timings reasonable? Helpful? I don’t mind carrying on if it is useful to you, but don’t really want to put more work in if I am totally off track.

Allegra

I'd say at the moment it's 60% fish (mealplans, shopping list, recipes) against 40% fishing (cooking advice, leftovers, growing your own etc.) Once the alternatives and the additional recipes are up, it will be more like 50%-50%, and I think that with Mr Arty's gubbins and further nutritional info it could be as much as 20% fish and 80% fishing. Which I'd feel a very successful balance - you gotta give fish while they are learning how to fish, else they'd starve before becoming proficient at fishing.

weezl74

Julimk wrote: »

I’ll take some piccies of DD’s gown once completed, but the ‘prom’ isn’t until 20 July, so maybe a while.

Thanks for the tip about the doughnuts. We haven’t tried them yet as DD has been poorly. Had her at home with me today, mainly curled up on the sofa under her duvet. But she seems much perkier this evening.

I’ve been trying to work out theoretical (prep) & cooking times for the vegan recipes, based on what is stated in the recipe & how long has been allowed for the original recipes. How do these look?

Pasta funghi 5/15
Tomato olive pudding (45)/150
Red pepper tart (45)/55
Risi e bisi vegan (20)/25
Red pepper houmous (5)/0
Olive tapenade (10)/20
Butternut squash risotto vegan (15)/40
Brazil nut & pumpkin seed butter (15)/0
Red lentil pate (10)/20

How long are the BNS & parsnips roasted for at the beginning of the vegan veggie burger recipe?

It would be really helpful if those who have made any of the new vegan recipes could post their timings? Please?

I won’t be around much tomorrow, but should be all day Wednesday, so will be able to work on it more then.

apologies Juliette!

The packet of parsnips recommends 40-45 mins roasting time

Your timings above look great, more realistic than mine!

I would say the saag aloo is 10/25

does the above mean the red pepper tart is in the oven for 55 mins? That seems a fair bit, is it cos of the blind baking?

weezl74

Allegra wrote: »

I'd say at the moment it's 60% fish (mealplans, shopping list, recipes) against 40% fishing (cooking advice, leftovers, growing your own etc.) Once the alternatives and the additional recipes are up, it will be more like 50%-50%, and I think that with Mr Arty's gubbins and further nutritional info it could be as much as 20% fish and 80% fishing. Which I'd feel a very successful balance - you gotta give fish while they are learning how to fish, else they'd starve before becoming proficient at fishing.

indeed, giving fish I think is the enticing factor, whilst hopefully a LBM is kindling away in the background.

The psychologist in me wants to include more from a 'how to think differently about your finances' but I so know this is odd on a recipe website!!!

Julimk

10 mins to fry off onions (while pastry is resting) + 15 mins blind bake + 30 mins in oven for completed tart = 55 mins?

If I am going along the right lines I will plough on!

Allegra

weezl74 wrote: »

The psychologist in me wants to include more from a 'how to think differently about your finances' but I so know this is odd on a recipe website!!!

Do you think so ? I don't find it odd :think: (Prolly cos I'm odd :rotfl:)

But, you know, it might help with all the criticism you are likely to get/getting about why spend so little on food.... Plus, of course, you'd not want to be seen as encouraging people to be tightwaddy just with food. And from the number of comments that low-cost mealplans get from people along the lines of "you should cut your spending elsewhere, not on your food bill, blah blah" I do think that many people do not quite get that anyone producing a budget mealplan is not suggesting that this should be your first step when in trouble.

So yeah, I think it would help with that particular issue....

weezl74

ps fascinating debate about relationship with food and our body shapes.

Spookily my timeline is very similar to yours allegra!

Looking back at photos now, I am very surprised my school friends called me fat. I now think I was unusual (quite academic, which was very uncommon in our comp!) and the other kids had no word for ridiculing this type of unusualness, so they came up with fat, and posh snob. Neither of these were true as I look back. But I was different, and that's uncomfortable when you're 12.

My body now is less slim, in that post baby way, but 3 important things have happened to change me from a body hater to a body liker:

1) I have been lucky enough to be married to someone for 11 years who is not a body fascist. He says wonderfully reassurng things like 'weezl I like women with boobs bum and thighs, if I didn't that'd mean I was attracted to blokes, which I'm not!' He is very accepting, and I have gradually learnt to look at me with his kinder eyes. Also, I have better things to do now with my time than read the likes of 'heat' magazine, which used to fill my head with unrealistic body norms.

2) I have finally understood that my mum projects her own issues about size food and weight onto me/other women. Thus when she is in utter awe out loud of my brother's size 8 girlfriend whilst I am 9 months pregnant, she is not actually talking about me, she just thinks she is .

3) No matter what, for ever after now, despite my tummy looking like a deflated balloon with red crayon lines, I feel in awe of my own body for making 2 humans.

weezl74

Julimk wrote: »

10 mins to fry off onions (while pastry is resting) + 15 mins blind bake + 30 mins in oven for completed tart = 55 mins?

If I am going along the right lines I will plough on!

of course, d'oh!

I had visions of oven time of 55 but I completely see that!

this explains why dinner here is 20 mins after I said it would be

weezl74

Allegra wrote: »

Do you think so ? I don't find it odd :think::rotfl:)

But, you know, it might help with all the criticism you are likely to get/getting about why spend so little on food.... Plus, of course, you'd not want to be seen as encouraging people to be tightwaddy just with food. And from the number of comments that low-cost mealplans get from people along the lines of "you should cut your spending elsewhere, not on your food bill, blah blah" I do think that many people do not quite get that anyone producing a budget mealplan is not suggesting that this should be your first step when in trouble.

So yeah, I think it would help with that particular issue....

fascinating! I had not understood that at all! but perhaps people have been saying this all along and I didn't get it:o

they see me plough all this energy into reducing the food shop, but no mention of all the other things and perhaps think I'm saying 'only make these extreme cuts on food!'

fascinating!

Do the regulars on here think this about me too? (other than allegra!)

domesticgoddess789

weezl74 wrote: »

ps fascinating debate about relationship with food and our body shapes.

Spookily my timeline is very similar to yours allegra!

Looking back at photos now, I am very surprised my school friends called me fat. I now think I was unusual (quite academic, which was very uncommon in our comp!) and the other kids had no word for ridiculing this type of unusualness, so they came up with fat, and posh snob. Neither of these were true as I look back. But I was different, and that's uncomfortable when you're 12.

My body now is less slim, in that post baby way, but 3 important things have happened to change me from a body hater to a body liker:

1) I have been lucky enough to be married to someone for 11 years who is not a body fascist. He says wonderfully reassurng things like 'weezl I like women with boobs bum and thighs, if I didn't that'd mean I was attracted to blokes, which I'm not!' He is very accepting, and I have gradually learnt to look at me with his kinder eyes. Also, I have better things to do now with my time than read the likes of 'heat' magazine, which used to fill my head with unrealistic body norms.

2) I have finally understood that my mum projects her own issues about size food and weight onto me/other women. Thus when she is in utter awe out loud of my brother's size 8 girlfriend whilst I am 9 months pregnant, she is not actually talking about me, she just thinks she is .

3) No matter what, for ever after now, despite my tummy looking like a deflated balloon with red crayon lines, I feel in awe of my own body for making 2 humans.

Thank you for such an inspiring post Weezl :T. It has made me see myself through, as you say, "kinder eyes" and realise that it is probably flicking through piles of celeb magazines that generated half my body issues. If only I'd realised this as a teenager and not spent the last 10 years trying to be something that I am not! I also liked your Nigella Lawson reference and most definitely have to agree. My OH thinks she is, in his words, "a fine example of a women" and is absolutely obsessed with her cake mixture finger licking antics! I know it will be a hard task but if I ever have daughters of my own I will try my absolute hardest to ensure they do not have to go through the body angst I have put myself through and encourage them to aspire to be beautiful, healthy young women with hips, boobs and curves to be proud of.