22nd
February 2014
An
optimist is the human personification of spring. Susan J. Bissonette
What a beautiful
sunrise this morning, I realised spring is almost here and when I looked it is,
started March 20th, that’s less than a month, this crazy weather we’ve
had this winter means I’ve still got pansy’s flowering up my garden that I
planted last June, I might spend a bit of time out there this weekend tidying
things up. I’m a fair weather gardener,
haven’t been out there since September!
I had
so much to get done in my office yesterday, I decided against cooking and opted
for chip shop lunch, then I decided to turn it into a bit of research for my
members because of course I’m extremely dedicated to them all and I know they
struggle with ProPointing all that is chipped and battered so this is what I
purchased – purely for research purposes of course!
Regular
chips
Saveloy
Battered
roe
Battered
mini fish
Scallop
Curry sauce
May I
say first before I continue I didn’t eat anything with batter on it, as I don’t like it,
not a fan of deep fat fried things I have to say, mom and the birds took are of
it all though.
Moving
on to the important information, I was really impressed that the portion size
of the chips at my local chip shop has become more realistic, 28pp for the bag
(it says 29 on scales but I didn’t eat the wrapper!), when that’s split between
two it’s more than plenty. The last time I bought a bag of chips on my
way home from work (& I asked for a small portion!) the bag they gave me
had 67pp in it!
I think the moral of the story here is be careful what you think is "a bag of chips" and put them on the scales when you get home!
This is what 28pp worth of chips looks like!
Moving
on to the saveloy, an easy one as it was inputted into my scales, so that was
10pp;
Battered
food mmm, not as bad as I expected if I’m honest, I reckon batter works out at
roughly 4pp per 50g, now that sounds a lot and it is but it doesn’t weigh heavy
so this scallop was 7pp;
this is the batter of the scallop!
This cod
roe is only 6pp
And my
mini fish I reckon 8pp of which 6pp worth was probably the batter – you get
more batter than fish! I think you’d be
better off having a large fish and sharing if you actually want fish.
Curry
sauce mmm, now you’re talking, I bought the larger pot (for research
obviously!) and I was really pleased to find out it would work out about 4pp
using averages from other curry sauces you can buy in supermarkets.
Now I
ended up having saveloy, chips and curry sauce which worked out at 28pp, my 49
weeklies would easily cover that and I left some of the chips as they were the
small bits that are either burnt or really greasy.
I didn’t
have to do the donor kebab because if you recall I covered that earlier in the
month
http://wwbevsworld.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/another-fancy-going-to-chippy-for-tea.html however someone did say, “but what about a
chicken kebab!”, so instead of buying one, I asked the chip shop man serving me
to go take a photo of the labels, he did, they only had the ingredients though
not the nutritional information. Again
you’ll be glad to hear the one in our Ashmore Park chip shop is 91% chicken
thigh, spices and finally vegetable oil.
Based on that information and knowing they give people about 300g of
meat, the pitta bread would be 7pp, sauces 4pp, I work out that a chicken kebab
is going to set you back 30pp and NO they are not Filling & Healthy because
they do not use breast meat and I doubt anywhere does unless it’s the kebabs on
skewers from a proper Greek place.
Hope
that helps because it cost me nearly £8 to work out ;-)
Right I’m
off to have a shower and get dressed as I’m going for a walk on the chase this
morning, you’re more than welcome to join me, I’ll be at Whitehouse Car Park,
Cannock,WS12 4PR at 11am, only planning on doing an hour, although it’s
glorious out there right now, I do have a massage booked and it’s my first in
weeks, my body is in bits!
Have a
great day whatever you’re planning to do, Eat Gorgeous, BeYOUtiful and go and
check out Rachel from yesterday’s blog BEFORE photo on our area group this morning
– WOWSERS! What a transformation!
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