Food Blog
Sarah Lockett is a food writer and TV news reporter/presenter with a special interest in healthy eating. She has just published her first book on how to captivate a man through food! She has also written for magazines and had a daily cookery column in The Scotsman for 18 months. She is a member of the Guild of Food Writers, and says: Here are some of my ideas to save money but live well. Remember, we can go for the odd splurge, but only if it's value for money.
I hear from my market-trader mole that mutton is half the price of lamb. And it’s fantastically flavourful, if you know what to do with it. Many people have an image of mutton as grey, tasteless, fatty and gristley. I know I did. But put aside those prejudices and have a go at the [...]
As the recession hits, it’s only natural to be concerned about what might happen next. You may be planning your Easter or summer getaway, but the weakness of the pound and the insecurity of the aviation and travel industry are worrying a lot of people.
Well, we can’t promise to make any of these things go [...]
The only way of getting through the credit crunch is by getting together. We don’t have as much cash, but we do still have lots of time. If we share this time with other people in the community we can get a lot of the things we need done for free.
Don’t know what we’re on [...]
I am no longer a woman with a bump! On Friday 23 January at 3.48pm my daughter Imogen was born!
Needless to say we are all happy and healthly but as I was 12 days overdue there were some complications. Everything is okay, but I will now have to rest for three weeks and as a [...]
I am cross.
I made a lunch time dash to Boots for some retail therapy – BIG mistake – I ended up returning to work a very, very grumpy Magpie.
I went to an Oxford Street store with the intention of using up my Advantage Card vouchers and went around filling up my basket with toiletries I [...]
Driven by the current grim economic scenario, the latest figures have started showing a downward trend in peoples` spending on food. Understandably, people have started tightening their belts when it comes to supermarket shopping.
Of course, eating good quality, healthy food is very important for you and your family, so here are a few tips to [...]
January may seem like an odd time to start talking about "giving" but a couple of things that have happened in our household in the last week have convinced me that "giving" is not just something we should allocate to the month of December.
First up, my sister-in-law is about to have her first child. The [...]
I had a chat with the flower-seller at the top of my road the other day. I was interested to know how his business was going. He said it was pretty good really. One or two businesses had cut their orders a bit but on the whole – to my surprise – he said he [...]
but we shall see who can pound the longest".
Wellingtonat Waterloo, 1815.
There has been much conjecture on the future of the Euro, particularly as it has just celebrated its 10th anniversary. The arguments have varied from the Europhobes dancing like demented demons trying to conjure up its final demise, through to fanatical Pan-European Esperanto speakers evangelising [...]
I was surprised by Obama’s inaugural speech. I think I expected something rousing and inspirational. What we got was a much more sober oration. Poor man, he’s clearly very aware of the enormity of the task ahead of him.
I’ve supported Obama from the first moment I heard him speak because I could see he was [...]
