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hmm I'm a bit Confuzzed by that site
Female, height 170 cm
Your ideal body weight is 135 pounds, or 61.4 kilograms.
Your protein intake requirement is 27.6 grams to 49.1 grams.
If you are working endurance training, increase to 28.6 to 49.2 grams
Now I had my medical at work last week and according to them I'm on the low side of my ideal weight at 64kgs and yet this site seems to imply I should be lighter still
So whos right??
and does that mean I need more food or less food:rotfl:
June Grocery Challenge 270.80/250July Grocery Challenge 0/3000 -
Can you buy frozen concentrated orange juice in England,i,ve never seen it.Have seen it listed on a few American frugal sites0
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You used to be able to get cans of florida Orange juice, but I haven't seen it for years. I'd love to be able to get cheap juice concentrate.mother_noah wrote: »Can you buy frozen concentrated orange juice in England,i,ve never seen it.Have seen it listed on a few American frugal sites0 -
Thanks for starting this thread Weezl. I've seen you over on the grocery challenge thread and have often wondered how you spend so little. I look forward to more of your recipes and hope I'll be able to pinch a few ideas
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Thanks girlleastlikely to!
You'll love this one then, it's how I make our lunches for work so cheap...;)
Houmous
natco dried chick peas (from 2 kg bag) 100g 7.5p
50 ml veg oil 5p
a few tablespoons of the water from cooking
5g grd black pepper (rajah) 4p
2 fat cloves garlic 8p
salt 1 tsp less than a penny
2 tspns lemon juice 2p
=26.5p This makes enough for 4 weeks worth of sarnies for Mr Weezl...:j
Soak chick peas over night. Drain then vigorously boil for 10 mins. Then simmer on hob for approx 1.5 hrs, I do mine all day in the slo cooker on low. Blitz them drained with all the other ingredients in the food processor. Lovely!:T
Super- spendy day, add a few sundried toms, nomnomnom.:o
Anyhow, 3 loaves of HM bread makes 45 slices, so 22 sarnies with this as a yummy filling. 1 month of work lunches batch made and frozen = 69p, just over 3p a day!!!!
Hope you find that useful;)
:hello:Jonathan 'Fergie' Fergus William, born 05/03/09, 7lb 4.4oz:hello:
Benjamin 'Kezzie' Kester Jacob, born 18/03/10, 7lb 5oz:)
cash neutral gifts 2011, value of purchased gifts/actual paid/amount earnt to cover it £67/£3.60/£0
january grocery challenge, feed 4 of us for £400 -
Hi all. Had my visit to Asda today, when I mentioned what time we had arrived the cashier said "I think you've been here longer than me today!", but it was great, so cheap compared to Tesco, we went to the one at Milton Keynes, according to the cashier it's the biggest one in Europe. I could have stayed there all day but we needed to miss the 5 o'clock traffic so had to leave..............
I bought six of the frozen fruit for smoothies, anyone got any smoothie recipes for me please? I must confess I have never made a smoothie so some luscious recipes would be great. I am aiming to make my own yogurt and use that as a base, or kefir.
Sadly I still can't open the link
Weezl, how good a protein are lentils? I often make lentil soup, it would be interesting to know if these are high in protein, I certainly don't each much protein in a day and this would be a good, cheap way to get it.0 -
Ohh smoothies. I love them - just can never seem to be organised enough to have the ingredients in. Basically throw anything that seems like a good idea into a blender, add milk/yoghurt/juice, whizz up and check consistency. Add more liquid if need be - then drink.
Remember that berries and oranges etc are often quite sharp so may need sweetening with apple juice or bananas or mangos etc.
Also don't forget that ginger and mint are perfect partners for things like strawberries and pineapple. One of the best drinks i've ever had was basically a mint and pineapple smoothie thickened with a lot of crushed ice (okay it was a slush puppy in disguise).April Grocery Challenge: £250/£127.530 -
Thanks for the Houmous recipe Weezl, will try that one out. One question - does your OH eat this everyday for lunch? My OH won't eat the same thing twice on the trot
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Hmmmm.....$380 in food stamps per family of 4 per month in USA. Thought I read somewhere that with dearer prices in Britain - that would mean £380 to equate to same amount of food (though a dollar is less than a £). According to my calculations £86 per single person for a month- sounds like hard going to me even if I dropped the organic price premium and my real coffee. So I shall certainly be watching this with interest.0
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Just found the following article of interest:
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/plight-of-the-huddled-masses-a-hard-time-for-thanksgiving-759037.html
Found the bit of clarification I personally was wondering about in it - food stamps are a maximum of $3 per person per day (ie $21 per week - which I gather would be £21 in British food spending power terms?)0
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