I might not be doing this quite right as I'm making these links a bit more like a blog roll than the sort of 'I saw this interesting/appalling post' type links. Oh well, this evening I will tell you again about a website I've linked to a lot on my blog before, but it deserves linking to again as it is awesome ( Read more... )

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I decided to post about the bentos I make for work. Maybe it will provide inspiration to others.

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It may shock people to hear that despite being vegan for about a decade (my I'm old) I've not been much of a fan of green vegetables. I've eaten broccoli, but that was about it. However, over the last few months my omnivore husband has been winning me over to them. It started with bubble and squeak. Surely no one can object to a bit of cabbage or ( Read more... )

As part of my attempts to lower my carbon footprint I've been trying to buy and eat more locally produced, seasonal, unprocessed food. It's hard to work out the exact carbon footprint of a particular item of food and some things can catch you out, for example New Zealand lamb can have a lower carbon footprint than British lamb, because the lower ( Read more... )

Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you.

The words I got from atriec were: religion, marriage, clothing, Queens', food

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Previous years Pesach has always been my least favourite holiday. It's the food issue. I'm vegan and don't live in Jewland. Trying to have a kosher Pesach is that bit more of a struggle and I tend to fear that I'm going to starve. I've also always had the worst of both worlds because I didn't feel like I culd eat anything but also couldn't keep ( Read more... )

This Pesach was the first one where I had my own kitchen to kosher for Pesach. It's also the first time I've held my own seder and, of course, the first time I've had the opportunity to perform birkat hachama ( Read more... )

There's a science story doing the rounds and the way that it is being reported is really pissing me off. Here's an example from the Telegraph Vegan Diet Increases risk of birth defects, scientists warnWhat's wrong with this story? Well, the headline and the fist paragraph are both flat out lies. You can tell this because when you actually read the ( Read more... )