Try Something New?
Spring is here and it’s time to drag ourselves out from under our winter duvets, as we hope for sunshine and warmer weather.
If you’re anything like me, the daffodils’ sunny colour helps get you feeling more motivated about the year. I literally come out of hibernation!
So, how about trying something new? My challenge [...]
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I’m confused…
It doesn’t take much these days.
But I was wondering whether any of you could help me on this one???
I have a pressure cooker. Got it for Christmas in 2006 and have since used it for a myriad of soups and for cooking slow-to-cook veggies like beetroot. I love it. Despite the fact I can’t [...]
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Today sees the start of Fair Trade Fortnight.
Coordinated by the Fairtrade Foundation, it’s 2 weeks of show-casing Fair Trade products and raising public awareness of the importance of fair pricing, contracts and working conditions for producers in developing countries.
The Fairtrade Foundation expects there to be over 10,000 events over the next two weeks, ranging from [...]
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Totally off-topic, but this is soooo gorgeous, I just had to share it with you!
C x
“Feeling Good”
Birds flying high you know how I feel
Sun in the sky you know how I feel
Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel
It’s a new dawn
It’s a new day
It’s a new life
For me
And I’m feeling good
Fish in the [...]
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It has to be said that, whatever you’re doing to be “green”, gas bills are going a bit mad!
I’ve just heard that British Gas put up their prices by a whopping 15% on Friday - yet they don’t even bother writing to tell us these days.
If I think about when I’ve worked with clients / [...]
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Just in case you need a bit of a chuckle, here’s an old joke I found whilst clearing out my email backlog today. I thought I’d share it with you. Apologies to the original author, but I guess it’s been round the block a few times now!
Here goes:
Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?
George W [...]
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Do you have any top tips for surviving Christmas stress? We’re after ideas from peeling the sprouts on Christmas Eve and storing them in a bag in the fridge through to keeping relatives under control.
Please share now! Your country needs you!
Here are our top 5 tips:
Don’t get stuck on your own in the kitchen - [...]
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It’s that time of year again - Christmas is upon us. Where did it come from? I don’t know about you, but each year it seems to sneak up on me without me realising…
And it got me wondering - each of us has our own family traditions at Christmas - some of them sensible, others [...]
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Theo has finally reached the age where I can’t stop him stealing food from my plate and shoving it in his mouth, so it’s time to start weaning.
Louis was a winter baby, so weaning started with summer fruit and veg. With Theo being a summer baby, he’ll start weaning on winter delights. So it’s time [...]
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Ok, it’s not often I give in and ask for help… but we’re at the end of our tether!
Louis (nearly 3) has decided bed time is for wimps and won’t go to sleep. At least, not until past 9 pm.
With both parents being engineers by training, we’ve obviously tried various experiments - changing what he [...]
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Did you know…? I’m now writing a seasonal recipes column each month for Tastes of Britain magazine.
Tastes of Britain is all about British regional specialities, the producers, food heroes, and the stories behind the best food that Britain has to offer.
As their marketing spiel says: “From Land’s End to John O’ Groats; from pheasant to [...]
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The pumpkin and squash section of VegBox-Recipes is going bonkers.
No great surprise.
After all, once you’ve lovingly carved out the innards of this year’s Hallowe’en pumpkin, you’ve got to find something to do with them.
Here’s some info about pumpkins and a few favourite recipes: http://www.vegbox-recipes.co.uk/ingredients/pumpkin.php
I still have memories of mum telling us about Hallowe’en in her [...]
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11 months on and I’m still ploughing through last winter’s pickled beetroot.
I really love the pickled beetroot recipe we have on the main VegBox-Recipes.co.uk site. But why haven’t I eaten it all yet???
Because I made a quadruple batch. At least.
I was pregnant with Theo at the time and remembered that, in my pre-veg-box-not-quite-so-organic days, when [...]
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Ok, I’m finally going to take the hint…
I don’t know if you have this problem, but it doesn’t seem to matter how much I tidy up, within a few minutes, the house is a tip again. I can’t find anything… (Maybe a slight exaggeration, but you know what I mean!).
It doesn’t help having a baby [...]
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As part of September’s Organic Fortnight, the Soil Association wants to raise awareness of the fact that growing food organically uses 30% less energy than intensive farming, with the use of chemicals.
The Government knows this fact, but despite telling everyone to save the planet from climate change by switching to low-energy light bulbs or using [...]
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My parents are off on holiday this week. They’re taking the caravan to Italy and tootling round their favourite parts of the country for 5 whole weeks. So, as you can imagine, mum has been frantically packing for ages, to make sure they’ve got all their creature comforts, while they’re away.
But why should you be [...]
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