Jamie Oliver and Sainsbury’s team up to put affordable nutritious meals for four on the table for a fiver.“Feed your family for a fiver” drive, fronted by Jamie Oliver, offers hearty, nutritious recipe ideas for families of four. Sainsbury’s offers fresh meal ideas with ingredients at better than 100-year-old prices.

Imagine the very best line-up of produce and ingredients, incredible wines and drinks from small, unique producers, restaurants serving carefully sourced dishes and a comprehensive programme of entertaining and educational workshops where you can discover some of the best food and drink in the world…

Although it has been rather chilly over the last few days, today the sun is shining and Spring has truly sprung! For me, it means the season for foraging has properly begun and my first foray into wild foods this year has been to collect a bag-full of nettles. I am rather partial to nettle soup but I really fancy a change…

Eat Natural has withdrawn some Eat Natural bars of nuts and fruit with cranberries, macadamias and dark chocolate because they contain a milk protein that is not mentioned on the product label. This means the product is a possible health risk for anyone who is allergic to, or intolerant of, milk or milk constituents.

It’s been one of those manic weeks but I finally found the time to indulge myself in a little cooking. All week I’ve been thinking long and hard about what I was going to make for my Spring Fruit Sensation. I did some research into the seasonal fruits available now and I came up with rhubarb and pears but what to do with them was a tricky matter…I really needed inspiration!

I adore soups and Dave loves smoothies but my blender is ancient and has definitely seen better days! Luckily, the lovely people at Premium Appliance Brands sent me a Juice ‘n’ Smoothie from the Rosemary Conley range to review and I finally tried it out this week. I was rummaging around in the freezer when I came across a bag of asparagus ends I’ve been collecting. Every time we have asparagus, I break off the woodier ends which are too fibrous to eat and I save them in the freezer for soup.