Home-made Cooking Sauces v Bottled Sauces
Yet another survey has been released revealing our modern eating habits and how they have changed over the last 50 years. According to the Daily Mail, Britons only spend an average of 38 minutes a day...
View ArticleRising Food Prices – Not Just Your Imagination
Tesco Boss Larry Phillip has finally come out to say that the days of cheap food prices are over. In an article in the Observer he states “Because of growing global demand, it is going to change....
View ArticleAre Homemade Power Treats Better – Food Recipes for Kids to Make
This week I was alarmed to read that hundreds of food products aimed at children are higher in fat and sugar content than adults’ products. And this is the same week that the Guardian and the Irish...
View ArticlePortion Control Made Easy
Portion control. How I hate the word control. It immediately brings to mind restraints, constraints, limitations, discipline and restrictions – none of which I welcome with open arms (or indeed an...
View ArticleThe Almost Ready Made Meal – You’re Only Fooling Yourself
The Almost Ready Made Meal (ARM). What is this thing you speak of? It is a cheat. Neither a ready made meal, nor home cooked meal, it is a product dreamt up by rich corporations to get overworked,...
View ArticleQuarter Pounder with Cheese Please. I’m Talking a Stem Cell Beef Burger
If you haven’t heard (and in fairness, where have you been if you haven’t), the first stem cell beef burger has been eaten. Taking just three months to make, after years of research, the burger was...
View ArticleCan Breakfast Beat Childhood Obesity in UK?
British children are fat. Or so another report announces. This one (from the British Heart Foundation) says that a third of under 16s are overweight and that less than one in five children are eating...
View ArticleTo Cook or not to Cook?, That is the Question! – The case for home cooked meals
The time has come to take serious stock of the nation and of the world when it comes to looking home cooked meals. We know that modern mums have downed the aprons, not in protest of having to cook,...
View ArticleDeath of a Supermarket – Superquinn to Close
Superquinn to close. It is no more! The wailing, the tears, the outcry… it is almost as big a deal as the announcement of Westlife’s breakup in 2011. For those of you from outside of Ireland, I am...
View ArticleTesco Fines and Supermarket Tricks
Yet again Tesco is hitting the news – not about raising food prices or horsemeat scandals. This time it’s about supermarket tricks and them being fined for misleading customers on their prices. You’d...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....