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

shanks77

pinkhayley789 wrote: »

Just a quick question for anyone who has made the Tangy Bean Pate before...

How many servings can I expect to get out of a batch? Just want to make sure I am not being too greedy with the portion sizes! Thankyou :A

:o:oErm i dont get too many servings im afraid its just too good to save. There is no way i only put 20g on a piece of toast:eek:. Sorry thats not helpful but giving you fair warning not to expect it to last a week unless you have superhuman willpower like our Weezl in which case i hate and admire you in equal quantities. (Weezl could you send a ball of willpower up my way instead of wrath balls please?)

Julimk

I haven't done the batch recipes, but this is what I have for the (prep)/cook times for the single ones:

Panzanella (20)/0
Onion tart tatin (45)/60
Pasta funghi (5)/15
Nut roast (20)/30
Tomato olive pudding (45)/150
Red pepper tart (45)/55
Shepherdless pie (20)/55
Risi e bisi vegan (20)/25
Swede cloddies (10)/5
Moroccan rice (10)/10
Saag aloo (10)/25
Red pepper houmous (5)/0
Sweetcorn fritters (5)/5
Butternut squash tart (45)/35
Olive tapenade (10)/20
Butternut squash risotto vegan (15)/40
Rice salad (10)/10
Brazil nut & pumpkin seed butter (15)/0
Red pepper pasta (10)/15
Veggie burgers vegan (10)/50
Red lentil pate (10)/20
Pasta salad (10)/10

domesticgoddess789

Thanks for that Weezl and Shanks:)

Just having some of the pate on toast now and it's really nice and super cheap!! :beer: My sister is a veggie and buys the Quorn veggie pate that costs £1.39 for just 115g!! If only I could get her to try this instead, she'd save a fortune!

Sian_the_Green

weezl74 wrote: »

What I want to be a part of is helping all of us, kittys and shirls to find our internal locus of control and make it stronger.
And most, most, most of all I just want her to hire the ruddy mini van and drive home!

And I think this is where maybe you need a bit of a mental shift in expecting everyone who comes onto the site to be a 'Shirley' who will follow the plan to the letter. There is a great deal to be said for someone coming on and only picking up certain parts of the plan.

So, a visitor e-mailed a couple of days ago to say how your bread recipe really helped them; they had never thought that they could make 4 loaves at a time and struggled with the kneading. Your recipe received much praise and thanks and I am sure will become part of her life now so that she no longer buys bread from the supermarket. Not a massive shift admittedly, but she is now empowered to believe she has the ability to do something she had not been able to do before. So, her confidence raises, and next time she is buying something she may think "wow, this looks expensive but only contains flour and fat and some spices really, you know what, I might have a go myself"

This has made me think of things about resilience . So how does Shirl cope when she is in a hole? Well it depends how resilient she is. We can build that gradually as well as all at once. So when someone says "oh, I couldn't possibly follow that plan altogether, I don't know how to cook, I have a real Bob at home, my kids won't eat carrots... etc etc etc" we shouldn't feel it a failure to say "what about starting by making your own bread Shirl?" and then seeing how she does. So, she then feels, whilst she smells a loaf she made cooking, or tucks into a homemade pie "Wow, I have the ability to do this thing, I wonder what else I can do?". She will also feel good because she is learning what is going into her foods, because the experience of making bread makes her feel involved in what is going into her body and so she develops a healthier attitude to food and eating, because she has learnt a little about the science behind baking, because she feels a little more like Nigella or Jamie, working with her hands... Never underestimate the small gesture, working with kids we see that developing one area of competence will give them confidence to step outside of that and try something new.

Sometimes it is evolution not revolution :cool:

I hope that all doesn't sound too preachy, I just think that you can change people's lives a little at a time and I don't want you to underestimate that impact, one little rock in a stream can change its direction and ultimately carve out a path through solid rock...

weezl74

thanks sian

do you mean the site implies do the whole month or don't bother with it at all? Or did you mean I'm giving off that message (whole thing or naff off) on here, or sommat else I haven't got my head round? I agree with your thoughts and just wanted to check I wasn't giving off an alternative message by mistake

Sian_the_Green

I have had the impression that you are only considering it a success if people take the plan in its entirety, I am sorry if I am wrong in thinking that. Maybe it is just a vibe I picked up from other posts with the whole 'hole' analogy. So, if someone comes to the site and doesn't stay to look at all the recipes, I felt as though you would not consider this a success but do we need Shirley to be totally out of the hole, or can we consider it a success if she gets a little way out? I guess I see it more as a mountain to climb, as she gets a little higher, the view gets better...
Hope that makes sense and wasn't completely out of the blue

SmlSave

Just delurking to say that I play pick n mix with the recipes on the site

I'm too easliy distracted to follow any sort of set plan

weezl74

SmlSave wrote: »

Just delurking to say that I play pick n mix with the recipes on the site

I'm too easliy distracted to follow any sort of set plan

hello smlsave nice to see you

interesting sian...

i think you're right in sensing a disappointment with 'not following it allness', but only when that means spending more (than £100 a month) whilst in dire straits IYSWIM.

If someone posted and said, I do a few of your recipes weezl, but some of them are too expensive for me, so I'm going for 60p a day!

I'd be thrilled to bits!:D

or if they said well I'm not in dire straits so it's £2 a day for me but thanks for the bread recipe!

then I'm still thrilled.:)

it's when shirl's in a big pickle but can't follow it (the 80p a day) then I worry that I've failed her.:(

does that make sense or am I still not grasping your point!

edited to add I'm very sorry if my posts are coming across wrongly, I mean I feel I've failed, not that shirl has Sorry if I seem hard on her at all

shanks77

weezl74 wrote: »

it's when shirl's in a big pickle but can't follow it (the 80p a day) then I worry that I've failed her.:(

does that make sense or am I still not grasping your point!

But maybe if she is following it she is going from £5 a day to £4.75 a day and that is still good cause then the following month if she picks another meal that is more money she is saving. It might take her longer to get her LBM but she will get there in the end and kick herself for not trying it sooner but she will get there xx

weezl74

shanks77 wrote: »

But maybe if she is following it she is going from £5 a day to £4.75 a day and that is still good cause then the following month if she picks another meal that is more money she is saving. It might take her longer to get her LBM but she will get there in the end and kick herself for not trying it sooner but she will get there xx

yes definitely! And that is great

Am I the only one thinking, 'damn why couldn't I come up with more attractive rope!' though?

Erm, someone might have to spell this one out for me in no uncertain terms, like: we think you're being hard on shirl!

So I can show I'm not! I'm hard on me!

Or whatever it is that folk are picking up on

Or is it that people think that we're putting more into this than is required and that it'd be better to think 'that's good enough, and people have got a few idea to get going now!?

I think I'm missing something :D