Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Only if you're feeding the 5000. I'd have literally needed to have about 1/4 of an apple, 2 tablespoons of sultanas/raisins, few cranberries.... so had to buy more than I needed for an experiment.... then been left over with stuff I had to use up.

I did buy a pack of dried cranberries once, planning to make a cranberry loaf, that never happened - and threw that out when it went out of date.

Ingredients tend to mean a massive commitment to using up a huge amount of stuff that's never entered the house before.... and/or more bizarre food cooking of stuff I don't really want, just to use stuff up that I never intended to have in stock.

Buying one box of Dorset cereals when it was on offer (and comparable in price to cheap oats) worked out best as I could try out the flapjack recipe with minimal wastage overall.

At the time, too, I only had one small wall cupboard for food to be stored in.

But you make flapjacks every month or three till the ingredients are gone. The dry goods...the fruit and the oats, they'll last pretty much indefinitely.:). Then you make the flap jacks and have them for breakfast


Did you like the humous you bought?

tomterm8

I am now wondering about whether 'flapjack' means the same thing to me as LIR. With my flapjack recipe you can put on a pound of weight just by licking the bowl.

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

I am now wondering about whether 'flapjack' means the same thing to me as LIR. With my flapjack recipe you can put on a pound of weight just by licking the bowl.

Oh, I don't eat them!:D. I give them to dh who has a decent metabolism. A flapjack a day won't put weight on him.

Hence investigation last week into no added sugar no fat flap jacks. (And resulting muesli making this afternoon :rotfl:)

I dislike having muesli usually, because the amount one can eat for the calories is enough to whet the appetite and ignite it, without being enough to satiate. A portion of muesli weighed out is a bit depressing IMO. I feel the same about commercial cereals. It's why porridge is such a winner, it actually satisfies.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

But you make flapjacks every month or three till the ingredients are gone. The dry goods...the fruit and the oats, they'll last pretty much indefinitely.:). Then you make the flap jacks and have them for breakfast


Did you like the humous you bought?

Flapjacks are high calorie .... they were the sweet variety. Never had flapjacks for breakfast! Rarely have breakfast though. I only wanted to try the recipe out ..... and that was it. No need to make any again as they're a lot of calories per volume

Liked the houmous - it was a pot, then tortilla chips to dip into it. Never bought again because it's all high calorie and a tub + tortillas is lovely but overall too many calories.

PasturesNew

tomterm8 wrote: »

I am now wondering about whether 'flapjack' means the same thing to me as LIR. With my flapjack recipe you can put on a pound of weight just by licking the bowl.

Yeah

My recipe contained 4oz butter, 1oz sugar, 4 tablespoons golden syrup, 5oz of chocolate and then the oats.

Calories just in the butter was over 800.

Just added the recipe up .... it comes to: 2000 calories

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Flapjacks are high calorie .... they were the sweet variety. Never had flapjacks for breakfast! Rarely have breakfast though. I only wanted to try the recipe out ..... and that was it. No need to make any again as they're a lot of calories per volume

Liked the houmous - it was a pot, then tortilla chips to dip into it. Never bought again because it's all high calorie and a tub + tortillas is lovely but overall too many calories.

http://www.food.com/recipe/english-flapjack-3064

That looks a mean recipe to me, 275 calories not nearly enough. I would round to five hundred in daily calculations leaving dh at least 1500 cals of something else to eat, enough for a lunch and supper.

For a woman (not me) say 800 -1000 calories....that's still plenty for two other meals.

Humous we have with crudit!s.:)

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yeah

My recipe contained 4oz butter, 1oz sugar, 4 tablespoons golden syrup, 5oz of chocolate and then the oats.

Calories just in the butter was over 800.

We're you planning on eating them all on one or two days?

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

http://www.food.com/recipe/english-flapjack-3064

That looks a mean recipe to me, 275 calories not nearly enough. I would round to five hundred in daily calculations leaving dh at least 1500 cals of something else to eat, enough for a lunch and supper.

For a woman (not me) say 800 -1000 calories....that's still plenty for two other meals.

Humous we have with crudit!s.:)

I can't eat more than 1200 calories/day or I put weight on .... which is why I am a bit overweight all the time

The 2000 is mythical.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

We're you planning on eating them all on one or two days?

It'd be nice if food could be eaten over several days.... unfortunately, if something's nice it keeps calling my name and I have to eat it ALL... even if that means I am so stuffed I can't move.

So .... once made, it lasted under 1 day.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

It'd be nice if food could be eaten over several days.... unfortunately, if something's nice it keeps calling my name and I have to eat it ALL... even if that means I am so stuffed I can't move.

So .... once made, it lasted under 1 day.

Well, that is nothing anyone can help you with :rotfl:

The serving size is though, if you can only have 1200 calories and you have a '500' calorie flapjack you either eat less at other meals or cut smaller flap jacks....make triangles out of the cut squares so they are half the size.