Last week I posted on here about my bean shortage and the letter I received from Heinz in response to my politely worded email pointing o...

I have beans on my menu twice this week over on my Getting Ready for Rations on Retirement blog, usually when I am splitting a can of bake...

  We only planted this rhubarb plant in Spring of this year.  You're not really supposed to harvest from a newly transplanted bush, inst...

It was lovely first thing this morning and Ginger came to tell me as much at 6.20am.  He wanted to go out and looking at the positioning of ...

  The freezer drawers have been bugging me recently, it would seem with me they are either super organised or a complete mish mash of half o...

  So I finally finished my book.  Over the past few weeks it's been a case of pick it up, read a bit, think about things, check things ...

  I had some of these in the freezer last week and decided to eat them over a couple of days.   One is supposed to be a serving size ... but...

  I'm getting to the stage of the Food Cupboard Challenge where I am mostly running out of ready made things.  I say 'mostly' as...

  Last night, just in time for our tea, I pulled up the first of our potato plants, not one planted by me but a lovely healthy looking volun...

  Salad sandwich fillers are a Summer lunch that is easy, quick, tasty and delicious. My boys used to love this stuff in their sandwiches fo...

I'm currently just over halfway through my latest book, Chris van Tulleken's Ultra Processed People ,  and   I'm finding it abso...