by joy skipper | Jun 9, 2023 | Food, Recipe, Uncategorised
It’s that time of year again, when we all have a glut of rhubarb – this delicious cake helps solve that problem – you will want to make it again and again! Rhubarb and Almond Cake 150g unsalted butter, softened 150g caster sugar grated zest of 1...
by joy skipper | May 9, 2023 | Uncategorised
(Previously published curtesy of ckbk – https://app.ckbk.com/features/consuming-passions-chocolate) As a child I would visit my grandmother’s house every Sunday for tea. Although she lived in a small house, there was a pantry, and this was a delight to me...
by joy skipper | May 9, 2023 | Food, Uncategorised, workshops
There can only be a few people in this country who profess to not liking chocolate, or so the sales of Cadbury Dairy Milk (CDM) would attest. CDM (owned by Mondelez) reported a £505 million value in sales in 2021/22 – that’s a lot of chocolate……or is it? The...
by joy skipper | Mar 14, 2022 | Food, Nutrition, Recipe, Uncategorised
When food is wasted, so are our natural resources such as water, and energy used to grow them. Wildlife is sacrificed for the land used to grow crops. On average worldwide we need 2350 calories per day to survive (we eat 180 kcal more). But at a global...
by joy skipper | Mar 7, 2022 | Uncategorised
As a Registered Nutritionist, and somebody who really loves great food, I have seen a real decline in people understanding what it means to eat a healthy diet. So many people are obsessed with what they shouldn’t eat and seem to have forgotten the pleasure we...
by joy skipper | Feb 24, 2022 | Uncategorised
To help your gut process food, it needs a huge variety of nutrients, bacteria, enzymes and minerals to do it well. And where do these come from? Your food of course. The more variety you can eat each day or each week, the more chance you have of providing the...