Festive Favourites – My Christmas Top 5
With only just over a month until Christmas, it’s time to be getting into the festive spirit. I’m never keen when Christmas lights start to go up in October, but with a mere 5...
Category: Food & drink
Guilt Free & Easy Meals – Viva la Cooking Sauce
When it comes to being fed, my children are fairly easily pleased. Well, obviously not all of them all of the time, but they are used to a ‘one meal fits all’ approach and...
Get Ready For The Big Lunch!
The hot weather has been beating down all week, and I don’t know about everyone else, but my thoughts have been turning to picnics, barbeques and enjoying myself in the open air. There’s the...
Can fizzy drinks ever be ethical & other kids drinks dilemmas
What to offer my children to drink has always been a source of anxiety for me. And I’m not even talking alcohol here; that’s a subject for another day. I remember when my first...
National Muesli Week Anyone?
I have been a regular consumer for many years. I have faced the supermarket weekly for well over twenty years. I have bought all the food and household products for seven people for over...
Supermarket own label fair trade V Fairtrade pioneers
Like all couples, we have our differences. We argue about the kids, money, whose turn it is to load the dishwasher, all the usual stuff. But sometimes the argument focuses on something a little...
Bottled Water Doesn’t Have to Cost the Earth
Bottled water attracts its fair share of bad press, maybe even more than its fair share. One such example of this was when a government minister claimed that drinking bottled water should be made...
10 Days to Go!
So Easter gets ever closer – just 10 days left in the Ethical Superstore diet (regular readers will recall I have been challenged to only eat food and drink that can be purchased from...
Ambidextrous Chocolate Range Aims to Cut Accidents
Whether it’s simply an ‘urban myth’ or simply a popular but unsubstantiated statistic, the fact remains there are numerous claims that over 2500 left handed people are killed each year from using products designed...
Celebrating Life At Easter
I was thinking of enrolling my two youngest children on a Drama course in the Easter holidays until I checked the dates on the calendar – the course took place on Easter Saturday and...