Monthly Archives: October 2008

Rice Krispie Ghosts

As part of Kellogg’s Big Bake campaign, they’ve produced a host of ghoulish recipes, which you can make together as a family this Halloween. Continue reading

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Fiendish Pumpkin Cake

Celebrate Halloween with this gorgeously fiendish pumpkin cake and it’s gluten free! Continue reading

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Lituanica UK recalls ‘Samsono’ ears and tongue roll

The Food Standards Agency has issued an updated Food Alert for Action about Ears and Tongue Roll from Lithuania, labelled with the ‘Samsono’ brand. Continue reading

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How to use your cookery books

It may seem like a strange instruction to offer a reader of a food website how to use a cookery book. However, how many books come with instructions of how to use them? None. Continue reading

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WI’s Charity Drive Uses Diamond-Mounted Stove To Cook Up Interest

An exclusive diamond-mounted cooker, which has been produced to celebrate the diamond anniversary of Denman College – the Women’s Institute-owned Residential Adult Education College – is to be raffled online for charity. Continue reading

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The good the bad and the ‘unhealthy’

Every day a different headline tells us this food is good for you and that food is bad for you so it is not surprising we grow more and more confused. Is red wine good or bad for you? Now apparently white wine is also good for the heart. Eggs were once deemed too high in cholesterol and similar misconceptions exist over avocados Continue reading

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British leeks have arrived

The 2008/9 British leek season is here! Running until end April 09, what better time to tuck into fresh, flavoursome British leeks. With rising food prices making us all more supermarket savvy, choose British leeks for flavour on your table and change at the checkout. Continue reading

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NuVal Nutritional Scoring System

NuVal LLC is bringing a groundbreaking nutritional vision to market – an independent and easy-to-use food scoring system that consumers can use across all products and brands to make informed decisions about food. Also called the Overall Nutritional Quality Index (ONQI), it sounds fantastic doesn’t it? An easy way to identify healthy foods… or so you’d think but keep reading. Continue reading

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Clearing up the food confusion

Join this webchat with Dr Carrie Ruxton to discover how you can beat heart disease. Chat date: Friday 31st October. Chat time: 3.00 pm Continue reading

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Effortlessly Ethical Eating – Bread and Butter

If you want to live doing the most good and least harm possible to our planet but are confused about how, or it all seems too much hard work, then keep reading this series of articles. Continue reading

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The Goose Fat Information Service

Yes, there really is a Goose Fat Information Service and I know we all have to be careful of the amount of fat we eat but just every now again it’s ok to indulge isn’t it? Every thing in moderation. Continue reading

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