Bean sprouts are a far cry from caramel and nougat, but whilst traditional snack bars might rely on these sugar rich ingredients, there’s a new organic snack bar that prefers to use a slightly more unusual approach…

Virgin coconut oil is cholesterol free and the triglicerides it contains are transferred into energy, not fat.

Defrost your food by putting it in the fridge the night before you want to use it. Not only will this help keep your fridge cold, and reduce its power consumption, but it will save you having to defrost it in the microwave.

If you do forget to take something out …

We’ve received exciting updates about the Chicken Out campaign!

News from Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall

I thought you’d like to know that I’m going to be a guest on Jonathan Ross’ TV show on Friday (Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, BBC1 at 10.40pm, 30th November) - and I’ll be asking him, his audience and friends to sign up to the campaign.

My parsley plant has gone bonkers! It is making an advance on the rest of the herb tub and is trying to strangle my sage plant. I have had to take drastic measures and now have a bag-full of parsley awaiting as unknown fate! I’ve had a tip from mum and an idea for a recipe…

We returned from our annual pilgrimage to the Pumpkin Man in Slindon, laden with pumpkins, squash and gourds.

The gourds were decorative, the ‘new kid on the block’ was Heart of Gold squash (I’ll give it a proper introduction in a future post) and the stars of the show were a Golden pumpkin and Crown Prince squash.