It's Friday, which means it's time for another tasty, healthy and seasonal treat to give you plenty of vitamins and positive energy for the weekend! This week, it's brought to you by our friends at Chow Vegan, who have shared their favourite blueberry and banana smoothie.
Blueberries are in season at the moment, along with blackberries, greengages and raspberries. So you should be able to get your hands on some fat juicy ones without too much trouble, whether it's from a local farmer's market, superstore or your own hedgerow.
Read on after the jump for instructions...
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Here in London, we've been promised perfect barbeque weather this weekend, and I for one will be out in the garden, setting fire to things. Being a veggie with several vegan friends makes this slightly more complicated affair than it otherwise might be, but I think it can also be a lot more fun when you're forced to be creative with your cooking. So I've been scouring the web for tasty meat-free, outdoor cuisine, and am really excited by what I've found.
Whether or not you normally eat meat, why not check out some of these recipes? You're bound to impress your guests when you offer them something that differs from the usual discount burgers and bangers.
Follow the jump for the recipes and please send me more ideas!
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The more variety you expose your baby to early on, the more willing they'll be to try more sophisticated, healthier food options when they get older. So how can you ensure you baby's tastebuds are fully tempted without too much slaving over the stove?
Hippyshopper Mums have long been fans of Plum; the 'organic superfood' for babies, so I was pleased to hear that four new varieties have been launched this summer. Follow the jump for details on the new products, all of which contain all natural ingredients with no GM, salt, sugar, meat, egg or dairy.
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Cherries are without a doubt my favourite homegrown fruit: they taste amazing, look lovely in the trees, make fantastic puddings and are as much a part of the British summer as rain and Wimbledon. But over the last 50 years, we have lost 90% of our cherry orchards and now import around 95% of the cherries we eat -- not good for food miles, our economy or the taste of the fruit, which is at its best when bought locally and in season.
To address these concerns, Saturday (19th July) has been designated British Cherry Day, with the aim of raising awareness about how you can help save the British cherry. Tips include buying British, renting or planting a cherry tree, and buying exciting cherry-based products including beer and ice cream made from cherries. Check out the Cherry Aid site for more details!
Now, you could roam far and wide desperately seaching for egg-free, vegan friendly pasta. Or you could make it yourself, with total control over the ingredients, quickly and easily without a pasta maker.
This tutorial on Instructables tells you how to do just that, The ingredient list is short and simple, and the instructions are nice a clear. Plus you'll wow everyone by making your own pasta!
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Here's one tasty treat that's unlikely to be keeping Britain's 4 million tonnes of food waste company! Divine's latest offering to chocoholics-with-a-concsience is a new strawberries and cream variety that's perfect for summer scoffing.
Creamy fairtrade cocoa blends with real, scrunchy strawberries in the new flavour, which celebrates Divine's 10th anniversary of producing high quality, fairtrade choc. Divine's scheme has proven so beneficial to farmers in Ghana that it scooped the Observer ethical business award earlier in the year. It's about as guilt-free as chocolate gets. £1.49 per bar at Ethical Superstore
Gordon Brown has a point when he complains of the amount of food going to waste in this country. More than 4 million tonnes of perfectly good food is chucked out each year in the UK, and I don't need to lecture you on the starving children in famine-stricken parts, or refer to the sky-rocketing food prices worldwide, to point out how sorry a state of affairs this is.
So what can we do to get out of our wasteful habits? Here's a nice picture of some tasty bubble and squeak to get you in the mood for some lovely leftovers, and in the meantime, Follow the jump for some tips.
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It's Friday, which means it's time for another tasty, healthy and seasonal treat to give you plenty of vitamins and positive energy for the weekend! This week, it's brought to you by our friends at Chow Vegan, who have shared their favourite blueberry and banana smoothie.
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