Have You ever Wanted to Egg a Politician?
Our friends at Divine Chocolate have come up with a fantastically novel way to encourage people to send an email to politicians to keep fair trade on the agenda at next week’s G20. It’s...
Category: Food & drink
Two Weeks to Go
So just 2 weeks to go until Easter and the “eat only stuff I can buy at EthicalSuperestore.com” has been going pretty well. I am now a total convert to having a vegetable box...
Traidcraft Geobar is 10 years old
Sometime in late March 1999 Waitrose received its first delivery of Geobars and my favourite snackbar was born. Of course, I’m a little bit biased as I was part of the launch team that...
Looking Behind the Labels
Social labels have stepped up their outreach striking deals with McDonald’s – who sell Rainforest Alliance coffee – and just this month, Cadbury Dairy Milk has gone Fairtrade causing a hullabaloo with more stringent...
An Idyllic Mother’s Day Breakfast
With two little girls in our house, mornings can be a little crazy. The four year old insists upon wearing pink each day, and the two year old likes to be dressed as Tinkerbelle...
A Change for Life?
So we are now in week 3 of Lent and still the Ethical Superstore diet is going pretty well (in summary, for six weeks I’m only going to eat what we sell in the...
Meat Free Mondays
Having messed around with my family’s food and drink options during Fairtrade Fortnight, I’ve decided to sneakily introduce Meat Free Mondays at a time when their defences are low. Before I move on to...
Slow Cooker Challenge: The Results Show
The meals have been eaten and well-digested, the dishes have been washed, the recipes have been passed around and the all-important votes have been counted and verified (by me), and I can confirm that...
Go Banana’s For . . . Cake!
Whether you’re bloated on bananas or you’ve simply bought too many; there’s only hours left of Fairtrade Fortnight’s Go Bananas campaign! So here’s another way to get peeling and get eating to help set...
Record Shakers!
Just a glimpse of one of those ‘You don’t have to be crazy to work here.. but it helps’ notices is normally enough to send a shiver down my spine. Today however, everyone at...