Food Archive

  • Bake Your Own Bread

    Bake Your Own Bread

    My Dad’s been making his own bread for years, and after a bit of thought I finally decided to give it a go myself. We bought a breadmaker (you didn’t think I was going to do it by hand did you?! ) and a couple...

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  • Affording Free Range Chicken

    Affording Free Range Chicken

    Various channel 4 programs airing in the UK in January of this year brought to light the true methods of chicken farming to the majority of the nation. Yes it was old news to some (I’d seen it about 15-18 months before then on TV,...

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  • Hellmans goes Free Range

    Hellmans goes Free Range

    I’ve been meaning to write this for a few weeks but work has become a tad busy and spare time is something I’m lacking right now. However, the good news is that Hellmans seems to have finally completed its roll out of free range eggs...

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  • British Strawberries – Just The Best!

    British Strawberries – Just The Best!

    The British Strawberry season is upon us and yesterday we had the first batch of strawberries out of the garden. I’ve got about 20 plants in all growing, all in pots plus 4 in a hanging basket. They’re free from slugs, woodlice and other creepy...

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  • Know your Food

    Know your Food

    Recently I wrote about free range chickens, and how, if you can’t afford to go free range, then you need to at least aim to buy the better raised chickens where they have 25% more space and a 25% longer lifespan, and are basically reared...

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