Modern food packaging carries an enormous amount of information about what you’re planning to eat – everything from the number of calories and its nutritional value, to how you need to store it and the ways in which it can be cooked. It’s all useful stuff of course, but while [...]
Listen to any discussion about supermarkets, food and the benefits of locally sourced produce and it won’t be long before you hear the words “food miles.” Although the expression was first coined back in the 1990s, over recent years those two words have really passed into the public consciousness and [...]
If your family gets most of its groceries from a supermarket then it might be time to turn 'management speak' on its head and start thinking inside the box! Vegetable (and meat) boxes are a modern take on an old fashioned idea. By giving you access to local food providers [...]
If you ask most young children where their food comes from, the chances are that they’ll answer ‘the supermarket’, or even ‘mummy’ rather than give you a rundown of the latest advances in crop farming. This is a pretty common response. After all, if you don’t have an allotment, or [...]
Baby food is for babies, right? Yes, but many children and even adults enjoy natural baby food as a delicious and healthy snack. Making homemade baby food is a great kitchen activity for parents and kids, and it also helps everyone keep track of what is being put into the [...]
"Slow food" is a phrase used to describe the Slow Food Movement, a movement that began to fight against fast food. This movement began in Italy in the mid-1980s and put an emphasis on local, fresh food from the harvests available in any given region. Today over 120 countries have [...]
“Eating in season” is a popular phrase which literally means eating whatever fruits and vegetables are fresh and well, in season in your part of the world. Unfortunately simply buying organic fruit and veg will not help you decide what is from your area and therefore in season because in [...]
Organic food has gone from being a little known health shop secret to big business in a short space of time. As consumers learn more and more about the conditions in which their food is grown and produced they are fast rejecting products that are riddled with pesticides additives and [...]
Food labels can be an absolute minefield - low this high that, sugar free, low fat, suitable for vegetarians…the list is endless, and, in some cases plain confusing. Educating children about food labelling can be particularly tricky as there are so many nutritional ‘claims’ laid to products, which, when scrutinised, [...]
Buying locally produced food has many benefits - it helps to protect the environment by lessening the transportation of goods it supports the local economy and local producers, and it enables you and your family to eat fresher food from a known source. And for children and families, it can [...]
Whilst we know that additives and preservatives should be avoided as much as possible in our children's diets knowing just where – and in what guise – these dietary bad guys pop up can be a minefield. Types of Additives Where children's diets are concerned, parents tend to think mainly [...]
