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

frugalmumof4

Thanks thats great, next weeks main meal plan sorted, are all the recipes added to the index on the first page? I really do not know how you are managing this with 2 children under 18 months! I had my first 2 boys that close, and worrying about what we were eating for tea was enough for me, dont think i would have been able to plan 2 days ahead!lol. Make sure you are putting your feet up when you can!

Bigjenny

Made the cottage pie for one again tonight. Left out oats and spices, served with 200g potatoes and 80g peas. Just about the right amout for me.

Also made quarter amount of flim flam, chopped it all up small in processor first and then cooked it. Came out fine.:)

queen_of_string

I am so pleased the sag aloo made it to a planner, even if it's a rough one :-). I'm happy to report it is absolutely delicious and you should always make at least double and then lock it away as soon as you have eaten it to prevent you having seconds and thirds :-D.

I am thinking of trying some orange cordial in the slow cooker as i have a couple of oranges and tangerines frozen, looking for just such an opportunity :-D

shanks77

Weezl i think the reason is that i need to have brekkie as i dont always get the chance for a break at work or if i do then it has to be something like soup so that if my break is cut short i can still drink it whilst working. We are finding that the carb portions are way more than we would normally eat but cutting the rice down to 75g pp seems to be a more reasonable size for us. We are both good eaters and ex is same height as me 5' 11" but unlike me does not put on weight at the same rate as me :mad:. Find with the porridge that that is sustaining and can keep me going if necessary til eve.

nopot2pin

weezl74 wrote: »

Also feel like planner 3 is coming together beautifully. Wonder if any of the vegetarians who didn't want to do planner 1 might be persuaded to try it out or any parts of it?

Planner 2 is a bit more sticky! I feel like with planners 1 and 3 at least I have a selling point-something that makes the planner attractive... planner 1- it has meat-yay
planner 3-there's fresh fruit-yay!


planner 2- erm..... there aren't any eggs....... bit of a damp squib that one eh?! :rotfl:

I am quite happy to test Planner 3 :j even although I am no longer veggie/vegan .... so count me in for that

I'm not so sure what planner 2 is anymore, other than no eggs

weezl74

frugalmumof4 wrote: »

Thanks thats great, next weeks main meal plan sorted, are all the recipes added to the index on the first page? I really do not know how you are managing this with 2 children under 18 months! I had my first 2 boys that close, and worrying about what we were eating for tea was enough for me, dont think i would have been able to plan 2 days ahead!lol. Make sure you are putting your feet up when you can!

Hiya

I've not finalised the recipes yet I'm afraid, due mostly to the things you've rightly said about having 2 small boys :rotfl:

the butternut squash, vegan risi, and bean curry will most likely be the exact ones from the other place, although I need to look at a way of making the risotto nice without any cheese

But I think I will have it more together very soon!

Thanks for being willing to test :T

bigjenny it seems you are doing very well at adapting the meals for one person:A:beer:, but that the hardest thing is the worthwhileness of making batch sizes big enough to warrant getting the food processor out?

Also I wanted to check how your less 'sloppy' version of the risi e bisi worked out?

grandma247

weezl74 wrote: »

Also, I hope this doesn't offend anyone on here, but I kinda think it's a weird non-negotiable WHEN IN REAL HARDSHIP. Please hear me out!

What I mean is that starving people will eat almost anything. And do almost anything.

If people were saying, the health of my children is my non-negotiable. Then I can see that, and I think you do see examples of this in famine situations where a mother will feed a baby to the point of her own starvation.

I am really suprised by someone who would lay down their life for an animal though.

And I don't mean to sound animal hating by saying that. Just that I value humans more!

eeep! I expect everyone will throw rocks at me now *ducks*

Weezle I am with you on this. I have been in the situation where we had a tiny amount of money to feed us and four small children and I was breast feeding one . It went on for two years with Dh not working for one year and a low wage the second year. Eggs of whatever description were a MUST HAVE. I was younger than you are now and I found the strength to cope,none of us died but ds will not eat "healthy" food now at age 35. My health actually started to improve because my arthritis pain was much less than it had been.
We ate mostly vegge with eggs and fish. Meat was bought if it was marked down. So yes if you are faced with starvation you will ditch any principles you have about how your food is farmed or grown.

kezlou

totally agree with you there, its a situation were generally the parent will go without in favour the children. i would love to buy free range (luxuary) but alas budget means battery:( most of the time.

Okay the cottage pie, well lets just say it fed all four of us and they still have left :eek:.So going to freeze for another day.

Okay verdicts, all three men + boys said "what is that? thought you were making cottage pie?" so i changed its name to meat/tomato mousaka seemed to appeal to them more and added cheese on top.
But all of them said its "okay", OH said its okay but nothing to write home about. I tasted a bit bland to me, think i should have added for pepper hmmm

Note to self:- add more pepper to cottage pie!

Not having the HM pizza today as OH is working late so think were going to have the chicken and onion pie instead. Can cheat and use the cooked i already have in? I froze it about two months a go .

Bigjenny

Hi Weezl

I used the food processor to chop the oranges and then I made some carrot cake, so it was worth getting it out. Don't use the food processor a lot usually for chopping veg for a big pot of soup or occassionally making cakes. Used it more before DH died but even then not a lot, as not big pastry or cake eaters.

I do batch cook stews, chilli, curries, spag bol soup etc, but am trying single portions to see if I like them as there a couple of ingredients and some recipes that have not tried before.

The risi e bisi was more like a savoury rice as all the water was absorbed, liked it much better this way. Might have made it to wet last time as it was more like rice pudding.

Jenny.

weezl74

kezlou wrote: »

Note to self:- add more pepper to cottage pie!

Not having the HM pizza today as OH is working late so think were going to have the chicken and onion pie instead. Can cheat and use the cooked i already have in? I froze it about two months a go .

of course you can!

no permission required:)