5:2 Diet Recipes – Autumnal Flavours in this Cream of Mushroom Soup. Cream of Mushroom soup – not an obvious 5:2 diet soup recipe. But it’s the first of September, it feels like the start of Autumn and it’s a year since I first started doing the 5:2 diet and since I started posting my […]
PEP Kitchen delivery service
PEP up your kitchen with frozen vegan dishes Living in lockdown and with restaurants still closed I am keen to discover new food sources we can eat at home. My son is a vegan and he can’t always enjoy the same food as the rest of the family, so it was great to discover a […]
Wonderful Wales: focus on fabulous food!
Exploring restaurants, cafés and bars in Mid Wales – a Welsh Food-fest. With St David’s Day on 1st March fast approaching, what better reason to head off to Mid Wales to discover some of the region’s exceptional pubs, restaurants and cafés. Due to its fabulous mountains and green rolling hills, you’ll be hard-pressed to find […]
SpiceBox – ‘Friday Night Curry’ – vegan curry recipe boxes
Vegan curry feast for four delivered to your door. Spicebox is a local curry house, based in Walthamstow London. Normally, in their restaurant, they offer fresh, modern spins on curry house classics which happen to be vegan. But, life for the restaurant industry right now is far from normal and since lockdown, like many London […]
Vegetarian Sausage and Lentil Casserole with Heck
Vegetarian sausage and lentil casserole Looking for tasty sausages and burgers? It’s worth trying Heck who deliver direct to your home, taking the stress out of queuing at the shops and not finding what you are looking for. I was sent a bumper selection the other week and made our family a sausage-fest, including a […]
Lentils with Carrots from the mymuybueno Cookbook
Delicious Lentil Recipe with Carrots from Justine Murphy. The mymuybueno Cookbook presents ‘160 refined sugar-free recipes for everyday eating in your busy life’ (including the lentils with carrots that I am sharing the recipe for). Written by Justine Murphy (Meze Publishing, 2020) it positions itself as both a lifestyle guide and a selection of recipes […]
5-2 Diet Made to Measure Vegetable Curry
Low-Calorie Vegetable Curry for the 5-2 Diet: I was sent a large box of rather beautiful organic fruit and vegetables from Soil and Seed last week. Now, when I was asked if I would like to trial one of the boxes I looked at the range currently on offer and was a little bit thrown. […]
Veganuary at Baby Bao
An Asia Veganuary at Baby Bao: I love Xmas. The sheer indulgent excess of it is encapsulated in my mother’s trifle -a rococo creation of jelly and custard studded with cherries, soaked in sherry and smothered with an avalanche of cream. And now I feel… fat…so hoorah for Veganuary (and my running shoes). It’s a […]
Smoked Cheese Pesto and Pasta
Smoked Cheese and Pasta with Pesto As a single dad I always have to come up with food ideas for my daughter and myself; the challenge being to keep it interesting and healthy. Never knowing what school meals she will have had before she gets home makes planning things difficult, and most meals are thrown […]
Winter Warmer Vegetable Soup Recipe
Simon’s Winter Warmer – Hearty Vegetable Soup: A large hamper of Unilever Kitchen products arrived at my door, full of household names that I didn’t know were part of the Unilever family. The collection included many stalwarts of Britishness – PG Tips tea, Bovril, Coleman’s Mustard, Hellman’s etc., as well as a good mix of […]