Food & cookery

Parsnip wins England’s ugliest vegetable contest

Admin | Tuesday 26 September 2006

A horribly distorted parsnip has won the prize as England’s ugliest vegetable. The competition was created to challenge the idea that tasty fruit and veg must look perfect.

Should soya carry a health warning?

Admin | Tuesday 25 July 2006

From The Guardian.

I’m finding it hard to keep up-to-date with what’s good and what’s bad. An article I read recently suggested it may be more healthy to eat butter rather than margarine…

Bargain Hunters: baps

Admin | Tuesday 16 May 2006

Bargain Hunters is our reality shopping programme. Can we get some good last-minute deals at the local grocery stores? This was a mega dash around four city centre supermarkets just before closing time. Oh and would you like to squeeze my baps? Story links & info on my site.

Bargain Hunters: cakes

Admin | Monday 1 May 2006

It was Marie Antoinette who supposedly said ‘let them eat cake.’ We found that Sainsburys in Manchester takes a different line…

Bargain Hunters is our reality shopping programme. Story links & info on my site.

Sainsbury’s Local checkout staff — so bad it’s embarrassing

Admin | Tuesday 25 April 2006

I’m really alarmed by how often I’m charged the wrong amount by the checkout staff at Sainsbury’s Local.

Food on ‘the curry mile’

Admin | Saturday 18 March 2006

We went for a meal at our current favourite place on Wilmslow Road in Rusholme, Manchester. An area that is known as ‘the curry mile’.

Ox for lunch

Admin | Monday 27 February 2006

My sister was in Manchester on business and offered to treat me to a late birthday lunch on her. We went to the The Ox — a pub on Liverpool Road that I’d heard good things about. We weren’t disappointed. We had soup and then a big sandwich each. Mine was chicken breast, bacon and … Ox for lunch

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