As The Workhouse Approaches....How To Do Everything To Avoid It, the Old Style Way

saveabobortwo

i bet your a cat person:)

saveabobortwo

gave me a clue:rotfl:

saveabobortwo

Do you eat KIT KATS?:rotfl:and does youR cat eat KITTIE KAT?:rotfl:

saveabobortwo

i don t buy Kittie Kat because i dont have a cat:rotfl:i d would buy it if i did have a cat :rotfl:iv got a dog so i buy Tesco :rotfl:own brand dog food instead.But i do like Cats

saveabobortwo

its your fault keep chatting

saveabobortwo

about Cats:rotfl:

JillS_2

VJsmum wrote: »

(*whisper* "I;ve never heard of pouting")

You were never a teenager then?

greent

Finally it's dry - has been raining here (heavily) most of the weekend. I have 3 loads of washing on the line and another in the machine - with still about another 3 to do (DS1 was on a school trip involving getting wet & muddy several times - lots of skanky clothes to wash!)

Had a bit of a kitchen day yesterday. Whoopsied roast beef for dinner (Inc frozen runners from last year) - plenty left for another 2/ 3 portions in the fridge. I also made a cottage pie with whoopsied steak mince and swede, mash potato & sweet potato from the freezer and a HUGE pot of bolognaise sauce with whoopsied steak mince, frozen courgette from last year - am trying to get a bit of room in the freezer. Will turn the bolog into spag bol and a lasagne. Dinner tonight is cottage pie with cauliflower cheese (leftover from yesterday) I also made 2 lemon drizzle cakes - 1 1/2 of which have already been consumed! - and a huge peach and strawberry sponge flan

I need to look at energy tariffs - our fix runs out in a month and the standard tariff is much higher

Off to get lunch for me and DS3 now - and the 4th load should have finished by then....

saveabobortwo

a fish similar to cod or its when you pucker up your lips and look all sophisticated or its a type of grout you put round your tiles:rotfl:

Broomstick

I don't normally look at the micro constituents of food just aim for a good mix of protein, carbohydrates and as much fruit and veg as we can afford, with healthy fats where needed (and the DSs top up with cakes/biscuits/crisps etc within reason as extras rather than main meals:D. They really do need calories... unlike me!)

I think that my method, if any, is to aim for diversity in ingredients as much as I can while trying to keep the costs down, and hope that we'll be OK. DS1 is average height, slim, healthy, has heaps of energy and is competing in his sport at a high level so I think we are on track.

However, the thing about protein got me wondering so I did some investigating and each of these things add up to about 10g of protein (I know that veggie sources need to be combined with other things to make them complete proteins) but this is just an incredibly rough guesstimate (and please don't assume this is correct - I may have made a mistake!):
- half a pint of semi-skimmed milk
- 2 eggs
- half a standard sized can of baked beans
- half (80g- ish) a small to medium can of salmon
- a couple of large bowls of breakfast cereal (before milk)
- a meal-sized bowl of split pea and veg soup etc.

If all these are right, it really isn't too hard to get enough protein a day into a growing teenage boy on a veggie and fish diet, especially if they can eat/drink dairy.

B x