Live For Food

The human body requires many different vitamins and minerals but apart from the general fact that they are good for you, I couldn’t tell you the specifics of more than a couple i.e. what biological function they fulfil and why we need them to keep healthy. So I thought I would do a bit of research […]

This year in the UK we seem to have had a bumper plum harvest. Everywhere I go, work, church, friends’ houses, I am being bombarded with bags of plums to take home. This is a picture of my friend Gill’s plum tree in full fruit! So I will admit I haven’t been terribly enterprising with […]

I have two freezers.  A small upright one, which is a dual unit with my fridge, and a small chest freezer which I keep in my utility room.  You would not believe some of the things that are hanging round in the bottom of them.  Every now and then I have an industrious fit and […]

I do enjoy cereal bars. They are a quick to eat, nicely packaged, portable breakfast or snack food. They don’t need to be kept cold, they have healthy ingredients, and easily slip into a pocket or handbag. But am I fooling myself that these products are healthy? Some instinct tells me that despite the cereals […]

If you work in an office it can be difficult to control your food intake at times.  When I worked in a large office I spent a lot of time sitting down all day and I always used the lift, never the stairs.  There was an office biscuit box for everyone, and it was someone’s birthday […]