In The Basket

Easy Bean Pots

Coming soon or available now: Easy Bean pots.
An ideal healthy lunch or to form part of a tasty supper Easy Bean pots are authentic recipes that are hand prepared in small batches using 100% natural ingredients. Each pot counts towards two of your five-a-day portions.
“People generally know so little about beans and pulses in the […]


Making Lunchtime Green with the Wrap n Mat

How green is your lunchbox? Swap the cling-film and sandwich bags for a reusable Wrap-N-Mat and do your bit for the environment.
Fitting snugly around sandwiches or other lunchbox staples like biscuits or vegetable sticks, a secure Velcro-style fastening ensures it’s easy for big and little fingers to open without assistance. And, at […]


Hugh’s Chicken Out Campaign in Trouble

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall needs to raise £86,000 - his latest efforts in the on-going Chicken Out Campaign have resulted in a huge bill from Tesco’s.
A few weeks ago I submitted a resolution to Tesco plc with the support of 102 shareholders representing some 3.7 million ordinary shares. The resolution challenges Tesco’s claims about poultry welfare, and […]


Strasberries

Hearty claps and slaps on backs to welcome the arrival of the Strasberry; like your life was incomplete without them!
They are a raspberry shaped strawberry with a ‘unique aromatic flavour’. The strasberry was “born” in South America in the 1900s but virtually disappeared for the last half century until some Dutch growers rediscovered it. Waitrose […]


Waitrose New Convenience Concept

Waitrose is to go head-to-head with its competitors’ convenience outlets, (Tesco Express and Sainsbury’s Local) by opening its first convenience concept in St Neots, Cambridgeshire.
The chain plans to emphasise local food and has plans for 100 such stores in market towns across the country.
Mark Price, the brand’s managing director, stated that, “We want at […]