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

Lesley_Gaye

weezl74 wrote: »

speaking of missing our regulars, hope lovely allegra and lesley are well and enjoying the sunshine

yes I was.
I had a call to help with the WI after meeting tea as the 2nd person doing it had a fall walking to the taxi on her way home from Greece and broke her hip. The taxi driver took her to A+E and they said, if you would rather fly home, you have tight jeans on, so you should be alright so long as you go straight to A+E when you get there. So that's what she did!! Flew home with just tight jeans holding her broken hip in place!!! That was Wed

Then Thurs met a friend for coffee, went to Pilates, worked in the garden, did lots of paperworkzzzzz

Fri, more garden, more paperwork

Sat, the WI do the teas at Waldron Fete, so I was over there for most of the day

Sun, can't remember, but it was busy

and so on and so on

I don't do anything in particular, except the business bit, but the days just whizz by

had a lovely day Tuesday, spent it with my DD and DGD 2.5 who is simply gorgeous

then yesterday went walking with some pals, lunch in the pub. Incidentally, I am pretty evangelical about CFM and have to stop myself going on about it, but I raised it yesterday and 2 people were interested enough for me to send them the link - more publicity

so that's me, am still catching up with y'all. Sorry to be reading about your wobble Weezlie, hope you are feeling back on track now

weezl74

PS been meaning to say for a while as a few people have mentioned will power and some of the dips/spreads (ie how do you not just devour the whole pot?)

What we do here, is when we make a batch of red pepper houmous or whatever, is slice one of the loaves of HM bread, and spread 25g on each sandwich and then freeze the sarnies, getting out 1-2 a day depending on our hunger levels. (I don't weigh them all, I just weigh one, once and do the rest by eye, I don't want to scare people!)

At the moment it is wholemeal pittas here at weezl towers, as they are just 5p per pitta at costco ATM, so I figured I couldn't make them cheaper (for wholemeal ones) so we went for it

Lesley_Gaye

weezl74 wrote: »

Lesley,:D I'm not sure if you're around to help with the kitty nutritional aspect ready for her roll out?

If you are willing/able to give any time to that, that would be great!

as you can see from my posting this morning - I am around!

I would love to help with Kitty's nutritional stuff to help with the roll out

weezl74

Lesley_Gaye wrote: »

Incidentally, I am pretty evangelical about CFM and have to stop myself going on about it, but I raised it yesterday and 2 people were interested enough for me to send them the link - more publicity

so that's me, am still catching up with y'all. Sorry to be reading about your wobble Weezlie, hope you are feeling back on track now

I did feel better, and it was great that folk on here were willing to befriend me through feeling criticised publically

I'm glad you believe in it enough to tell people lesley, that's fab

Are all the regular contributors signed up to the windows workspace still do you know lesley, I'm looking for a way of communicating which offers a bit more scope than on here. And possibly some sort of live synchronous chat meeting if we had the techno wherewithal!

weezl74

Lesley_Gaye wrote: »

as you can see from my posting this morning - I am around!

I would love to help with Kitty's nutritional stuff to help with the roll out

fabulous

The issue is my inability to properly record meals/portions batche in the top 13 rows, which means that although I've got a correct amount of batches now, I haven't got the right number of portions so that the calories etc are right.

I find it doable for my tired brain when it's just a main meal, but get into a slight maths pickle when it's a big batch of seed butter or something

what would be the best plan? for me to send it over?

The only incomplete task is to retrofit in the marmite (yeast extract) so if you had any space for helping with that too it'd be fab

ps problem with the rows is just me and maths, not the spreadsheet going wrong or anything, it's fab

artybear

weezl74 wrote: »

arty I looked up the redpepper houmous and I make it that one 25g serving (enough for 2 slices of bread) is only half a point.

So that's pretty good I think?

Sorry, what I'm responding to is you saying it might have to be a rarer treat item, and I was thinking that at half a point it might be more doable than at first it seems, IYSWIM? :rotfl:

Really? I thought it would be more than that so yay!!!!!!:j I'm so looking forward to trying it. Will put the chickpeas into soak asap!

Hi Lesley:wave: nice to *see* you.

Sian_the_Green

Hey, am just hovering feeling a little bad that maybe I was unhelpful in what I said yesterday. I was not wanting to be critical at all, in fact, completely the opposite, I wanted you to realise the value of small changes people make based on your work. So, I hope that came through

weezl74

Sian_the_Green wrote: »

Hey, am just hovering feeling a little bad that maybe I was unhelpful in what I said yesterday. I was not wanting to be critical at all, in fact, completely the opposite, I wanted you to realise the value of small changes people make based on your work. So, I hope that came through

It did sian.

I really value you as a team member and experience you as very encouraging, which with my personality type, is a much needed strength on our team.

I think you were suggesting ways of encouraging shirl that starting small is very valid. Which I agree with, and think that as a team we need to think of ways of providing that.

Does my response help? Tell me if you're still feeling anything.

grannynise

weezl74 wrote: »

PS been meaning to say for a while as a few people have mentioned will power and some of the dips/spreads (ie how do you not just devour the whole pot?)

Brilliant idea --- but I've just made the carrot cake for the first time and have eaten, still warm, the equivalent of about 3 portions :eek:. How not to eat the rest? It is SO delicious. I only had 3 eggs so used a banana which seems to have worked.

A possible idea for Shirley - I didn't have any cake tins that were the right size so I used 3 old foil containers (save from ready meals :o:o ). Shirley might have lots of those too - that's why she's looking at CFR now!

goggle

Hi everyone - I just found this thread & I think it's a great idea.
I'd love a planner for people with little time (but perhaps a slightly bigger budget) as some of the dishes take a while to prep/cook & when you don't get home from work till 7pm that's not always feasible!

Anyway, the point of my post - I made the onion tart last night & have a bit of feedback:
The pastry was almost impossible to roll out & I ended up with it semi rolled & them squishing it into the baking dish. I was dubious about the 2tsp of mustard powder but it tasted good.
My biggest issue though is that there was NO WAY that 700g of onions was going to fit in my dish! I only had 5 smallish onions in the house which I reckoned would be tons, but on weighing them, they were around 390g & I didn't even manage to squeeze all of them into the pastry case! I used 2 smallish eggs & only had semi-skimmed milk, but again the quantity was too much for my flan dish with all those onions! I didn't have the cheese mentioned but used a bit of cheddar found lurking in the fridge!
All I can think is that my dish wasn't deep enough - If it really is meant to be 2" deep, then perhaps the recipe needs renaming "deep onion tart" or something?

Taste-wise it would be very nice served with salad for a lunch too