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.
Someone has suggested I join Debtors Anonymous. It’s like Alcoholics Anonymous but for people who can’t stop spending. It’s a 12 step programme, just like AA, and I may just need it. I have recently been very strapped for cash. But what should I not buy? Trampolining lessons for my kids (£31 each for a [...]
The most important untold story about food, according to David W Miller, a former designer for the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Florida, is that what we eat affects our DNA.
He claims that, for at least three generations, it can change life span, diseases and even personality traits of children. What a bombshell. So [...]
I am again amazed at how cheap Lidl is. I have just been and bought a huge (hypermarket size) bag of groceries for £18.93! Yes, you have to take your own bags and no, there are no frills but that’s fine.
8 x 125g fruit yoghurts = 99p (£1.45 for only 4 pots in Waitrose)
Bag of [...]
Make a storecupboard Bakewell Tart using homemade jam, frozen pastry, eggs, ground almonds and a few other bits and bobs.
I have just made my first visit of the year to my local PYO farm (Pick Your Own, to the ininitiated) – Parkside Farm near Enfield . It was heaving – it really makes a good day out for the family. We’re a good few weeks into the season but this is the first time I’ve [...]
One of the things I most remember about potatoes is that the former US Vice President Dan Quayle – not knows as the sharpest knife in the box - once spelled potato as “potatoe” when he was on a school visit and decided to play teacher at the blackboard. Poor sod. A huge PR own goal. Anyway, we [...]
I’ve been testing an anti snoring device. Not that I snore, of course. No, I am always fragrant and lovely in bed and only make the noises you’d expect me to make. Shall I shut up now before I reveal too much? Anyway, the thing is called Breathing Relief and you can read all about it on [...]
Another dessert counting as one of your five-a-day? Too good to be true? Well, today’s recipe is for avocado chocolate mousse and although it’s not exactly sugar free, it does contain veg (well, avocadoes are actually fruit, if you’re going to be pedantic) and no butter. So, better than a kick in the face at the [...]
Frozen food creates less waste and is better value than cooking from fresh, according to new research carried out by the Manchester Food Research Centre on behalf of the British Frozen Food Federation. Well you might expect them to say that, but it does seem as if the research has been done properly, and includes people’s [...]
How about chocolate mousse counting as one of your Five-a-Day? Sounds too good to be true? Well I have just been road-testing a recipe for Sweet Potato Chocolate Mousse and it’s not half bad. One the other hand, it’s no Gu melting-chocolate-fudge-pot either. It’s definitely lacking in the buttery, double cream, full heart attack lusciousness of [...]
