The cyclone in Burma has killed tens of thousands of people and left up to one million homeless.
Aid agencies are appealing for help and say the need is “immediate and vast”. Read the rest of this entry »
The old saying “waste not want not” may belong to a different era, but with the news that the average UK family throws out a staggering £610 of food a year, it’s one worth returning to.
We waste an incredible 6.7 million tonnes of food every year.
But the government’s Waste and Resources Action Programme says almost two-thirds of the food thrown away could have been eaten if we managed our lives better.
Only 19 per cent of our rubbish is made up of unavoidable waste such as vegetable peelings, meat carcasses and teabags.
The rest comes from leftovers we scrape off our plates after meals, and shockingly, completely untouched products that have been allowed to go off. Nearly one million tonnes of food is thrown away whole or unopened - almost half of all bags of salad bought ends up in the bin. Read the rest of this entry »
Maybe you are planning on having relatives or friends round to your house at Easter? or organising a kids party? Whatever you decide on we recomend you visit our sister site called Quick Free Recipes.
At quick free recipes you will find an array of quick, tasty and simple recipes to make. All the recipes are free to use, no need to register first. We recently made the quick crispy chicken goujons, served with savoury rice then followed by a wonderful chocolate dessert called charming chocolate mousse recipe. They were all simply tasty and easy to cook.
