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Feed ducks peas and corn – not bread I absolutely love ducks and I can’t wait to get a pair to put in my pond when we are in the...

Easter is nearly upon us and that usually means a complete overindulgence in chocolate! We wanted to send our grand-daughters in the US something healthy but in the end we...

I’ve been a bit of a bore this week as I’ve been unable to talk about anything else except a book called Swallow This – serving up the food industry’s...

We all have cinnamon in our pantry for putting in cakes and sprinkling on desserts and hot chocolate. But did you know that this spice has great anti-inflammatory and antibacterial...

Emulsifiers are detergent-like substances and the most common ones are carrageenan, lecithin, polysorbate-80, polyglycerols, and xanthan gum. You will often find them listed in ingredients lists with the numbers 400...

Last week Pearl put me onto these frozen mango pieces which I wrote up for my Wendyl Wants to Know column in the NZ Herald. These are great because they...

I know many of you are careful about what you eat, like me. I go for food which is as natural as it can be and I don’t particularly worry...

Lucas came down with a cold this week which seems to be going around so I thought I’d share my top tips for helping your immune system fight it off...

I have to say that spending so much time up north is really reinvigorating me both physically and creatively. I am gardening, fishing and swimming every day so the exercise...

In Italy women apparently dry their sheets by draping them over rosemary and lavender bushes in the hot sun. The odour from the plant gets into the sheets and they...

I was reading a letter to the New York Times at the weekend about how people undergoing chemotherapy can find their appetite restored if they eat a spoonful of vinegar....

Daniel has been doing a lot of work getting our shop Facebook page up and running and he’d love it if you went over and had a look and also...

Every year at this time I always give out my recipe for home-made sunscreen (see my next post for that). It’s a bit fiddly to make, mainly because sourcing the...

Do you like my bunting? I went a bit mad last weekend and made 40 metres of the stuff because Paul has got a book launch on Monday for his...

You’ve heard me say it over and over again, and I’m going to say it again now. If your nana wouldn’t have eaten it why would you? Salad never came...

I‘ve always got a bottle of vodka in the house and I often use it when making up sprays with essential oil in them, as it helps disperse the oil...

One thing that angers me more than cosmetic companies using bad ingredients in their products is when they use causes such as breast cancer to market the products, which in...

I received an email from reader Alisdair McIntosh who said :”Ages back, probably before Christmas 2012, you wrote that you or your husband, or both, were going shampoo free to...

I read an interesting article in the Sunday Telegraph at the weekend about make-up artist Rose-Marie Swift who is the founder of the organic beauty brand RMS. She says this...