Tuesday evening saw the first ever @AfNutr Chat. After a few months of planning, finally the day came for the real thing and we moderators were a little nervous. The number of followers grew so much in the run up, this was not going to be a gentle entry into running a twitter chat. I…
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Food Matters Live 2018
A couple of weeks ago, I headed to London for 3 days of feeling all grown up and professional. Food Matters Live is a big event aimed at anyone involved in food – food manufacturers, food scientists, food developers, food writers, nutritionists, dietitians, researchers etc. It has an incredible array of seminars in 9 or…
Mindful Eating – what is it?
I am no expert in Mindfulness as a concept. But mindfulness and eating is becoming a very hot topic and it interests me a lot. I have always been a little uncomfortable with ‘diets’ and the restriction and unrealistic eating patterns that they often result in. Then when the diet is over, the tendency is…
A couple of food challenges for Lent
When I was a child, every Lent we used to give something up. I remember giving up chocolate or sweets, grown ups would come visit my mum and dad and would often bring us some sweets and I would put them in a jar so that come Easter I would have this little treasure chest….
Back to Twitter and Sugar at the same time…
…I have a bee in my bonnet on this whole Twitter/Social Media thing. Sorry to bore you all with it. My Twitter feed was full of People Against Sugar Tax. I kept them in my feed for reasons of seeing what the other view is. I was talking about how social media does more to…
If you are based near Birmingham…
…and have a love of food and cooking then check out the courses on offer at the Harbourne Food School.