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...
Bake off 2021 the story so far……
We’re now heading into week five of this year’s Great British Bake Off and we’ve seen some unlikely faces leave the famous tent already. Namely, the loveable Maggie, who stole everyone’s hearts in week one, with her infectious girly giggle and...
The Great British bake Off is back!
And we’re off! Tuesday saw the first of this year’s Great British Bake Off and, as always, it started with a bang. I’m slightly stumped by the Bake-Off team’s decision to open this year with the 30-year-old Billy-Ray Cyrus song (that nobody under 30 will even...
Celebrity Bake of SU2C final week
Last night saw the final Celebrity Bake off su2C of 2021, opening with Prue appearing to be dressed ready for an appearance in Dee-Lite’s Groove Is In the Heart 1990 video, and Matt Lucas now officially as round as a weeble. The contestants participating this...
