Eagerly I unpacked yet another box Abel & Cole sent my way for a review. This time it is pies. Not quite a summer dish to enjoy but very comforting nonetheless. Come and take a peek…
Cirio’s Chopped Tomatoes & Double Concentrate Tomato Purée
Monday, 22 June 2009 By 3 Comments
Isn’t it funny how early childhood experiences can affect you later in life? Or in this case, non-experiences? A few months ago I was approached by Cirio to do a review of their new products. The thought of eating tinned tomatoes filled me with trepidation. Why? Well, my mother never cooked with them! Ever a good role model, she always cooked with fresh vegetables, even tomatoes which were quite labour intensive; you have to submerge them in boiling water, skin, seed and chop them.
Dorset Cereals Bars
Tuesday, 5 May 2009 By 4 Comments
The earthy yet colourful and very attractive product range of Dorset Cereals Bars definitely catches your eye on the supermarket’s shelf. The use of one particular ingredient told me the company definitely cares about making it tasty for the consumers. Butter!
Kellogg’s Nature’s Pleasure Baked Muesli Range
Wednesday, 22 April 2009 By 3 Comments
Let me be blunt. I’m not a fan of most cereals on the market. The majority of products available are over processed beyond recognition and are laden with sugar (not to mention colorants) that amounts to exorbitant quantities of empty calories. What a great way to start each day. Not. But there is one type of cereal that I have a lot of patience for, and that is muesli. Kellogg’s was kind enough to send me their latest range, Nature’s Please, to try out. Here’s what I think…
Abel & Cole’s Free Range Chicken
Monday, 13 April 2009 By 3 Comments
With great glee I accepted to do another review for Abel & Cole and this time it was chicken; one of my favourite meats. The bird arrived in a Styrofoam box. Unfortunately, the pamphlet on top brought some bad news; from the 16th of February Abel & Cole started charging for deliveries. It’s a shame, because it was one of the company’s strong selling points.
Good Taste Foods: Premium Fish Fillet Selection Box
Thursday, 5 March 2009 By 6 Comments
If you told me ten years ago that I’ll have fish delivered on my doorstep today, I would have looked at you sideways, shaken my head pityingly thinking you had one drink too many and walked as quickly away from you as socially-acceptable possible. With that said, at the time I was studying at the University of Pretoria in South Africa – a far cry away from the forward thinking first world country I live in now.
Abel & Cole’s Mixed Organic Fruit & Vegetable Box
Saturday, 10 January 2009 By 15 Comments
In recent years more and more emphasis has been placed on eating locally-grown, seasonal food here in the UK. It is hunky dory that our supermarkets have the same, whole range of vegetables and fruit right throughout the year, but not many of us actually wonder where all these produce are grown. For example, green beans and sugar snap peas typically come from Kenya, avocados from South Africa and butternuts from Greece. It all adds up to millions of food miles, not to mention that the not-so-fresh and not-so-ripe food’s flavour get lost at sea and doesn’t taste at its best.
Lactofree Yogurt
Friday, 2 January 2009 By 2 Comments
Lactofree Milk
Monday, 21 July 2008 By Leave a Comment
Life isn’t easy being wheat and milk intolerant. My mother suffers from it too and I guess that’s where I got it from. In my early 20’s I drew the line after suffering at least one seriously painful bout of stomach cramps a week. For one year I vowed to cut out all forms of wheat and somehow I completed it successfully. Still, when I ate a gloriously creamy pot of Greek yoghurt with a dollop of honey, my stomach bloated 30 minutes later and I would look 5 months pregnant, not to mention the stinky farts that came along. Phlegm also formed immediately and if I pushed my luck by eating milk products a few days in a row, it would start with a sore throat and turn into a full-blown cold. My next New Year’s resolution was to cut out dairy (and wheat again) for a whole year. Things definitely went better but boy, was it difficult watching everybody around me devour chocolate eggs during Easter! After that I moved to the UK and started cooking full-time for myself, i.e. restaurants and take-aways went off the menu. From then on, my health took a drastic turn for the better and I rarely get ill (touch wood).