Diabetes Awareness Week. This week (8th – 14th June) is Diabetes Awareness Week in the United Kingdom. In recent decades, the numbers of people with diabetes in the UK has grown exponentially. The consequences for individuals can be very serious. The impact on the NHS is overwhelming its ability to...
World Milk Day – 1st June 2020. Monday 1st June is World Milk Day 2020. Established 20 years ago, World Milk Day recognises and celebrates the importance of milk as a global food, actively promoting the benefits of milk and dairy products around the world, including how dairy supports the livelihoods of...
5 Reasons Why Excessive Alcohol Consumption is NOT the Answer. Lockdown has seen us all missing out on many things we have always taken for granted in our lives – seeing friends and family, browsing the shops and, particularly in the glorious weather we’ve been experiencing lately, the opportunity to...
💪Immune Resilience #22: How to Buy Local and Sustainable Food. Buying local and sustainable food is one of the key messages in The Real Food Solution – why and how local, seasonable real food, cooked from scratch is a powerful medicine for people and planet. The Covid-19 pandemic is bringing...
Carrot, Celeriac & Blood Orange Soup is not only deliciously comforting and uplifting, but with a little help from a well-stocked, health-friendly spice cupboard, it will warm the cockles of your heart and look after your body too! Wars were fought over them, kingdoms were lost because of them, and...
Real foods and why we need them back on the table is very much the subject of the new The Real Food Solution which began its life as Once Upon a Cook, Food Wisdom, Better Living and was originally published last year under that title. Now retitled as The Real Food Solution, this...
How real food can save the planet should be a major talking point… so why isn’t it? I won’t beat about the bush. The media’s manipulation of public thought and opinion used to be cunning and covert; now (even in the UK) it’s upfront and unashamedly blatant with a whole...
Am I really posting a shout-out for sugar? Am I going crazy? Well yes! And no! National Sugar Awareness Week (20-26 January) designed to “raise awareness of the health impacts of consuming excess sugar (and calories) and educating the public to help them to consume less. The aim of the...
#Organuary 2020 is a very good time to make my slow-cooked and deeply nourishing Offaly Good Beef Shin Ragu. I’m starting the new decade with a resolution to play my part in reducing food waste, respect the animals that feed us and support a regenerative environment. To celebrate #Organuary, I’ve...
The theme for diabetes awareness month and World Diabetes Day 2019 is Family and Diabetes. We are urged to learn more about the warning signs of diabetes and find out their risk of Type 2 diabetes (T2D) – recent research discovered that parents would struggle to spot this serious life-long condition in their...
