Old Style vs the USDA head-to-head challenge...

BigMummaF

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Well Done Weezlers! Go stock up on some nice cheeses:D

Don't know if this is of any help, but I added some couscous to the dried soya mince & soaked them with boiled water before making the burgers tonight. Just made a change from oats & lentils, & tasted lovely with a splash of Lea & Perrin & generous sprinkle of mixed herbs!

Darn!...Lost me bit of paper, but someone said about Ox Heart? Our nearest MrM sometimes has Heart &/or Liver & I get it for the Pup...it's usually in the pre-packed fresh meat section;)

ceridwen

Hi Weezl

Yes please - links would be useful for the recipes - say post no x = recipe y etc. It would save us time and wondering when we want a particular one. I find I can even trawl several times through my own threads looking for summat and miss it (hence I have just added links into my blog to help with that).

This thread shows every sign of being a "long-runner" and it will take a lot of doing to look for a particular recipe when you've gotten up to the 100 pages or more long thread this looks likely to become.

On another note - I was cooking couscous again yesterday (minus any oil in the recipe) and found its still clump-free today after cooling down. So - it obviously is the technique-y bits of the one stir when one adds the couscous to the saucepan to cook and the fork-through after "decanting" it when it has cooked that stops it going clidgy (and not the oil).

ceridwen

Was browsing through one of my first cookbook purchases today - ie "500 recipes Vegetarian Cookery" - late 1960s! and noticed they state:

Daily food needs for vegetarians:
6 oz bread
1 oz cheese
0.25 oz cocoa or 1 oz plain chocolate
1 egg
0.5 pint milk
4 oz orange juice or an orange
1 oz wheatgerm or 2 oz oatmeal
1 serving fresh vegetables

For vegans:
3 oz almonds or brazils or 0.5 oz sesame seeds
6 oz bread
0.25 oz cocoa or 1 oz plain chocolate
0.5 pint enriched vegetarian milk
4 oz orange juice of an orange
2 oz soya flour
1 oz wheatgerm or 2 oz oatmeal
1 serving fresh vegetables

Both to have enriched margarine, green vegetables, pulses and yeast added to the daily "ration".

Hmmmm......what dost think of that weezl? Doesnt look like much of your fruit and veg. in that little lot to modern eyes (thinking of the Govts "5 a day" mantra even - never mind the "9 a day" that I gather is what we really should be having - but the Govt apparently thought it would be impossible to persuade many people that we need 9 per day - so lowered it to 5!). Think I'd be pretty hungry on that myself as well!

nopot2pin

weezl74 wrote: »

Hiya nopot2pin,

post number 212 explains how I made the cinnamon bread, which when toasted and buttered is nomnomnom!;)

thanks for the tip on the dried onions, that works out very reasonable then, in asda whitworths dried onions are 14p a box at the mo!

Wow
Thats cheaper than I am getting them then...
I have been getting mine from the local green grocers...
Will check out Asda next time I am in...
Off to check out post 212 now
Many thanks

nopot2pin

weezl74 wrote: »

Wondered whether you thought it might be useful for me to put a list of links to all the recipes, and all the key nutrients somewhere, maybe in post 1, so people don't have to think, 'oooh cinnamon toast, now where was that?', or 'calcium, now where did we discuss that?'. What do people think?

Also, I'm really up for doing more research on any areas of nutritional interest (not that I'm any sort of an expert, just really enjoy finding out:D) so let me know if anyone has any areas of interest that you can't be faffed to spend hours on google looking up!

Weezl...
That is a fab idea about the links :T :T
I was doing well at following this thread, and I am not a stranger to a search or two... but my dad had a stroke last month, and I have not been able to keep up with you lot:o
So an easy reference somewhere would be a fab idea as far as I am concerned :T

You deserve more than thread of the week Weezl !!
You deserve much more :T :T :T
Well done... and many thanks

moanymoany

Dh tells me that the tins of tomato 'sauce' you buy in the US is not ketchup but like the base for pasta sauce.

I asked him if it is like passata but he didn't know. Does anyone here?

BigMummaF

Get yourselves over to the bbc breakfast site soon as! There's a chap on today who makes a career out of foraging:j

And for those who sniffed at my idea for eating snails...he champions them so Ya-Boo-Sux:p He was also saying that Cow Parsley is very edible, but closely resembles summat that is highly toxic so PPPPPPPPLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZZ BE CAREFUL my Friends:o

I think it's www.bbc.co.uk/breakfast but I could be wrong. HTH.x

shaz_mum_of__2

moanymoany wrote: »

Dh tells me that the tins of tomato 'sauce' you buy in the US is not ketchup but like the base for pasta sauce.

I asked him if it is like passata but he didn't know. Does anyone here?

Hi there

Tomato sauce is passata ,tomato paste is tomato puree,tomato ketchup is .......................tomato ketchup;)


Shaz

weezl74

Hiya all,

just playing around with an index page...

I've put links to some recipes and nutrients at the end of the first post in this thread. Can someone say if this works as an easy index, cos it takes a while, and I'd hate it to be useless!;)

Weezl x

shaz_mum_of__2

That looks good to me if you wanted to save faff you could just tell people where to find it ie post 67

But its nice to have them all together

Thanks for all the effort

shaz