Review: Plymouth Street Food Festival
The first ever Plymouth Street Food Festival took place last bank holiday weekend and saw 20 top street food venders from across the country at Central Park – and apart from the inevitable queuing, it was an unmissable event in the area. The hosts also run Cornwall...
I tried the meal kit delivery service Gousto- here’s how it turned out
You may have seen the barrage of advertising for meal kit delivery services like Hello Fresh, and Gousto. The initial deals are tempting, with Gousto offering 65% off the first box, and then 25% off the two subsequent boxes. I caved, only paying £17.20 for the first...
Food price inflation
The story The environmental minister Mark Spencer has told MPs that there are signs recent rises in the cost of food have reached their peak. The context His comments came after inflation unexpectedly increased in February, with Office for National Statistics (ONS)...
Is Your Food Shop More Expensive Than Normal? This Could Be Why!
I spend a lot of my time in Tesco – which isn’t as sad as it sounds; I’m just a student on a tight budget doing a weekly food shop. As inflation rises and the cost of living goes up, I find myself caring more and more about what I buy and where my money is going,...
Cooking tips for students
Use more food seasoning One of the most basic and easiest cooking tips for students is to add a bit of spice to your meals, weather you’re making an Indian curry or even just to make something like a can of beans or a pack of noodles more flavorful, a bit of...
Tesco is the latest supermarket to ration eggs as supply chain issues hit stock levels
Tesco is the latest supermarket to announce the rationing of eggs to customers after issues in the supply chain. It follows Morrisons, Asda, Lidl, and M&S already having limited the number of eggs customers can buy, with shortages affecting the whole of the UK....
Ella Sampson Newsroom Radio Interview
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Goodbye Great British Bake off 2021
Sadly, we’ve reached the final of the Great British Bake Off 2021 Can it be so? Surely this year’s Great British Bake Off can’t be over already? The last 10 weeks have whipped by, and we’re now so familiar with the bakers in the tent, they...
GBBO – free from week and goodbye Lizzie
We’ve now reached week 8 of 2021’s Great British Bake Off, and this week the bakers were asked to make a range of free from recipes. The first signature challenge saw the contestants asked to create dairy free ice cream sandwich biscuits. Lizzie’s...
GBBO Goodbye George – It’s been sweet
What’s been happining in the world of The Great British Bake off? Since I last reported our GBBO goings on, much has happened. We’ve had pastry week, where the contestants had to produce chouxnuts – yep, you guessed it, yet another delicacy nobody...
Food waste – what is the real cost?
Do we know the real cost of the food that the world wastes? Approximately 14% of all fresh fruit and vegetables produced worldwide is lost, between the time it’s harvested and when it reaches the supermarket shelf. Fact. Billions of litres of water are used in...
GBBO – Is Jurgen really Winnie the pooh?
This week saw the Great British Bake Off’s first ever German week, and the show was opened with Noel and Matt, dressed and singing in the style of 80”s German electropop band Kraftwerk. I guess this shows the age demographic the producers of the show are...