Organic skincare and clothing — Food

Now some would call this a blog post, I would call it a note to self about a meal I'm going to cook and then tell you all about later. It's for a Veggie Cottage Pie that look delicious. You can find the recipe here - http://www.theveganhousehold.com/mains/black-bean-and-vegetable-cottage-pie/ Luckily one of my children is in a trampoline squad and trains several times a week. On one of my first visits I found a great little health food shop where I'm sure I will find agave nectar. I don't like to substitute an ingredient where I can when trying something for the...

We have all been through rituals of doing something because someone said it was good for us. We have all heard that warm water and lemon is a good alternative to coffee. Do we really know why though? We had a pouring jug in our fridge all through the summer with lemon slices and chilled water as a replacement to fruit squash. I think it will be returning after reading this great little article Why you should drink warm water with lemon

Who would have thought that so much pollution can come from farming beef for the traditional American burger industry. This video shows the extent of the damage that farming cows and the production of burgers is having on our precious environment. See what the hidden cost of burgers is below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ut3URdEzlKQ#t=259 So, are cows polluting the earth? What can we do to stop it? The UK government take this issue very seriously but are they doing enough. They have guidlines here for farmers but are they being followed. https://www.gov.uk/reducing-air-pollution-on-farms

This is an age old debate, should organic carrots be orange or purple? As many of you may know all carrots used to be purple in colour. That was until the late 16th century when the Dutch growers are thought to of mixed the normal purple carrots with mutant yellow and white carrots. The yellow and white 'mutant' carrots were not rare at the time, just not harvested as they did not contain the anthocyanins that the purple carrots did. This lead the growers to believe and they may well have been correct that they were not as good for...