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

polkadot

Lesley_Gaye wrote: »

Weezl

had a look at the nutmeg site

looks interesting and useful if you are a caterer for an institution. It says you can build your own recipes, but it looks like that would only be using their database of ingredients which would be of limited use to us

it also seems to be one of those sites that pull you in and then everything that you actually want to do costs extra

have you tried the free download?

I've been watching this thread for AGES but always too scared to post-had to come out of the woodwork to ask if you've heard of Bigoven? DH bought me the upgraded version about twoish years ago, I think it was about £10 at the time. It is american, but you can ask it to work your recipes in metric or imperial-you can add new ingredients and tell it which aisle to look for it in the supermarket-also allows you to calculate nutrition value and scale recipes...so if you have a recipe saved to serve 4 and you want to do 8, when you add the meal to the calendar it asks how many you want to serve-and it automatically calculates the new ingredients and cooking time. When you ad it to the calendar it asks you if you want to add to shopping list too-then at the end of your planning you can go at "shop from cupboard" and remove the items you have in-and reduce your shopping list to what you need only. Ive even been sneaky and added "ingredients" which are actually household, like washing powder for example, so that I can get them into the one shopping list.
You can also then print your month planner at a glance, recipes required an shopping lists.

weezl74

polkadot wrote: »

I've been watching this thread for AGES but always too scared to post-had to come out of the woodwork to ask if you've heard of Bigoven? DH bought me the upgraded version about twoish years ago, I think it was about £10 at the time. It is american, but you can ask it to work your recipes in metric or imperial-you can add new ingredients and tell it which aisle to look for it in the supermarket-also allows you to calculate nutrition value and scale recipes...so if you have a recipe saved to serve 4 and you want to do 8, when you add the meal to the calendar it asks how many you want to serve-and it automatically calculates the new ingredients and cooking time. When you ad it to the calendar it asks you if you want to add to shopping list too-then at the end of your planning you can go at "shop from cupboard" and remove the items you have in-and reduce your shopping list to what you need only. Ive even been sneaky and added "ingredients" which are actually household, like washing powder for example, so that I can get them into the one shopping list.
You can also then print your month planner at a glance, recipes required an shopping lists.

Hello

thank you for that, I shall investigate further

we're not really that scary on here honest, well, shanks is pretty scary, but she's a very long way away so she can't getcha!

weezl74

is anyone available to do a little nutritional researching? you need about 30 mins spare and a pair of googling fingers

aless02

weezl, i can have a go after baby bedtime

polkadot

Thanks Weezl It's your expertise that scares me-and Im not very good at keeping up with the posting, no matter how much I learn from a thread .

DH has just brought me supper (lasagna) but when Im done I'd love to have a go at the nutrition stuff-to break the ice you see, must start somewhere

weezl74

aless02 wrote: »

weezl, i can have a go after baby bedtime

GREAT! THANKS.

tHERE ARE ABOUT 6-7 CHUNKS OF THIS KINDA RESEARCH SO IF ANYONE WAS JUST THINKING 'OH i'D'VE LIKED THAT TOO!' DO PIPE UP (OOPS CAPS ON!)

weezl74

polkadot: thank you please could you look up the vitamin C amounts for the things on Shirleys shopping list (hoping you know where to find that on the website )

I basically need a number of mg per 100g of each thing.


I usuallly use the raw weight as that's what we've bought, and some things change weight when cooked.

Aless: could you do the same but for potassium?:A

artybear

weezl74 wrote: »

GREAT! THANKS.

tHERE ARE ABOUT 6-7 CHUNKS OF THIS KINDA RESEARCH SO IF ANYONE WAS JUST THINKING 'OH i'D'VE LIKED THAT TOO!' DO PIPE UP (OOPS CAPS ON!)

I could do one or two tomorrow evening if you didnt need them to be done urgently? I am off out in a min got a dress on and some very high heels or I would have done them tonight!!!

We are going here probably not very fancy for you guys but I am so excited-have pretty much starved myself all day so I can eat loads!!!

Going for cocktails afterwards so if I love you all later you will know why

polkadot

weezl74 wrote: »

polkadot: thank you please could you look up the vitamin C amounts for the things on Shirleys shopping list (hoping you know where to find that on the website )

I basically need a number of mg per 100g of each thing.


I usuallly use the raw weight as that's what we've bought, and some things change weight when cooked.

Um....no Could you pass me a link please? Ive found the shopping list on the first page of the thread-and the website-but I dont see a shopping list on the website.

polkadot

Oh hang on... is this the right one? Im I right to say theres only a May on there at the moment?