Here is a MUST read for all of us who frequent supermarkets. Even if you grow your own vegetables, have chickens, buy organic meat from the butcher...we all eventually have to go to the supermarket. This handy companion is a guide to what is in the stuff Supermarkets put on their shelves.
Each chapter deals with a food variety ie: snacks, ready made food, bread, drinks etc and gives you tips on how to choose the healthiest options.
At the back of the book there are charts and quick guides to additives, flavorings and preservatives best avoided.
I will try and copy them out and have the lists in my hand bag for when I am in the supermarket and I want to check the ingredients listed.
There are handy recipes in each chapter which are healthy alternatives to some of the stuff we buy.
Well worth buying, reading and having as a reference guide to check food labels. You may even feel healthier!
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie | Alan Bradley
This book took me by surprise, as the main narrator is a precocious 11 year old girl called Flavia.
Nothing much in that, except it's a murder mystery and Flavia goes about trying to solve the murder of a stranger in their veggie patch.
It took a while to get used to the tone, but all in all it was a really nice read. Not overly challenging with respect to the actual who-dunnit, but full of interesting asides and quirks of life in the Big House as interpreted by Flavia. It's a little like a Gothic thriller, only not that scary.
Big house, three girls growing up under the shadow of a dead mother and a distant father. So far, so English Manor house. Flavia's love of chemistry and fully equipped lab in the attic of the house give us plenty of interesting facts about all sorts of weird and wonderful plants, chemicals and poisons, which are her passion.
Eventually the mystery is solved, relationships move along. This is a good read, even if not a thriller or a blood n guts murder. Quirky and amusing.
Nothing much in that, except it's a murder mystery and Flavia goes about trying to solve the murder of a stranger in their veggie patch.
It took a while to get used to the tone, but all in all it was a really nice read. Not overly challenging with respect to the actual who-dunnit, but full of interesting asides and quirks of life in the Big House as interpreted by Flavia. It's a little like a Gothic thriller, only not that scary.
Big house, three girls growing up under the shadow of a dead mother and a distant father. So far, so English Manor house. Flavia's love of chemistry and fully equipped lab in the attic of the house give us plenty of interesting facts about all sorts of weird and wonderful plants, chemicals and poisons, which are her passion.
Eventually the mystery is solved, relationships move along. This is a good read, even if not a thriller or a blood n guts murder. Quirky and amusing.
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