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Monthly Archives: July 2009

Food in the news – July highlights

Whilst dire reports on swine flu hog the front pages (pun fully intended), your plucky Quorn blog labours harder than ever to bring you your monthly fix of the food news round up!
A fat lot of good - New research has shown that a high intake of healthy fat may lead to inflammatory bowel disease.
Frappuccino [...]

Beat those take-away cravings

Takeaways are the ultimate in fast food.  It’s been a long day, you definitely can’t be bothered cooking, so what could be more tempting than fish and chips, or Chinese, or Indian?  They’re all tasty, but full of unhealthy stuff!  Not only is take-away food full of fat and grease, it’s often full of salt [...]

Family values - why my family loves eating together

The family that plays together stays together – so the saying goes.  With this family it’s difficult– what with teenagers and grand parents all under the same roof our interests rarely coincide. So we like to sit down together at the end of the day and share a meal and our thoughts.
Easy, do you think?
Not [...]

Credit crunch busting meal suggestions for the family

Oh ‘Bo-ring’ I can hear! ‘I don’t like cheap food!’ Neither do I.  Fifteen minutes a week planning and a couple of hours cooking will save you cash to spend in other ways. Two treat meals a week. Deal? You need a freezer and the vision that food underpins family life.Â
Give each member a budget [...]

Our favourite foodie blogs

The power of the mind vs the power of foodie bloggers?  I challenge any of you not to get pretty serious cravings after reading through these online gems.Â
From glorious recipe inspiration with mouth watering pics to the weird and the wonderful I’ve put together my favourites here.Â
Those of you on the cyberworld frontline with any [...]

Thinking of picnics

Doesn’t this lovely warm weather make you think of picnics?
I cannot think of a nicer way to eat out ‘al fresco’ than having a picnic. In these troubling financial times it is a cheap and easy way to meet up with friends and eat together.
Gone are the days of the warm ham sandwiches and flasks [...]