OK I’m an expat fish lover living in Spain and I started this site to support the British farm food industry but here’s something I just don’t get. Ever since 2016 I have read that most UK fish is sold to the EU and once Brexit gets done you’ll all…
10 years ago I was at a famous food market in London on Sunday morning when I overhead a stallholder saying to a customer “You can’t get fresher than that, it was swimming in the sea last Wednesday”. Oh, so just 5 days ago then! How things have changed since…
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These food boxes are replacements for your regular supermarket shops, there’s another popular food box type called recipe or meal kits which are healthy replacements for takeaways. They contain everything you need to cook a meal for 2 or 4 people including detailed instructions. We’ll be covering these in a…
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10 years ago I was at a famous food market in London on Sunday morning when I overhead a stallholder saying to a customer “You can’t get fresher than that, it was swimming in the sea last Wednesday”. Oh, so just 5 days ago then! How things have changed since…
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Gloucester Services was opened in 2014 by the Dunning family to build on the success and popularity of their original Tebay services on the M6 motorway in Cumbria. The Gloucester Services Kitchen serves great-tasting and nutritious food, made from scratch using locally sourced ingredients, including their own home-reared beef and…
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Tebay Services was opened in 1972 by John and Barbara Dunning, after the M6 motorway was built through the Lune Gorge and over Shap summit, cutting across Orton Low Moor on their family farm. When they learned that the Department of Transport wanted to build a motorway service area on…
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Customer Offer: Spend £60 and get a free Diddly Squat Farm reusable canvas bag Let me start by saying I am a huge fan of Jeremy Clarkson, having read every one of his articles in the late 70’s and early 80’s in (I think it was called) Supercar magazine. In…
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How Food Box deliveries have become the most environmentally friendly way to buy your weekly food shop You might wonder how having all these great big vans delivering your food boxes can be good for the environment. The answer is that it’s been shown that the most polluting part of…
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Here’s an interactive map of milk vending machines across the UK. Unfortunately, apart from their location, we don’t have any more detailed information but we hope to add that later on, please check back soon
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Milk vending machines are a fairly new innovation that lets dairy farmers sell fresh milk and other dairy products direct to their customers. The increasing popularity of milk vending machines’ comes from our growing interest in sustainability and freshness, together with the need to support dairy farmers by ensuring they…
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Think your empty gin bottle is only good for the recycling bin? Think again, as gin lovers are subsidising their love of gin by selling their empties on eBay According to the Wine and Spirit Trade Association, British gin drinkers bought 75 million bottles of gin in the first 9…
View morePaneer is a meat substitute that is very popular with vegetarians looking for a sustainable alternative to pork, beef and chicken. Although it’s a cheese it has the advantage that unlike other cheeses it doesn’t melt when cooked and so it’s an ideal cooking alternative to diced meat. Two of…
View moreSwitching to a plant-based diet has the unfortunate (but temporary) side effect of causing short-term bloating and flatulence as your body adjusts to the changes. A vegan diet includes a variety of foods that take a little extra work from your digestive system to break down which is why you…
View moreEven vegans and vegetarians don’t just eat food to fuel their bodis. We all eat food because it makes us happy. And one of the most important things we look for in our food is texture. Food texture: how important is it? When you first adopt a vegan diet you’ll…
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I hate to say it but even when you are eating healthy farm fresh organic foods, grass-fed beef, and other organic meats Ketosis supplements are still a good idea for anyone on a keto diet as, in common with a vegan diet, the number of food options you have is…
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The keto diet can help kick start your weight loss journey, providing quicker results and more progress early on which helps you develop good habits faster. We know that training and exercise are essential elements of well-being and weight loss and that as your weight comes down it makes the…
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Freezing fish and other seafood “stops the clock” on the processes that cause them to go off. This can mean that the freshest fish you’ll ever buy will be frozen.While this article mainly talks about Fish it applies equally to any kind of seafood. If you’re lucky enough to live…
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OK I’m an expat fish lover living in Spain and I started this site to support the British farm food industry but here’s something I just don’t get. Ever since 2016 I have read that most UK fish is sold to the EU and once Brexit gets done you’ll all…
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