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Plastic-free July: The verdict

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Plastic-free July: The verdict

It's been a busy month, made busier by my attempts to try and curb the amount of waste emanating from our small (ish) household of two adults, one baby and two small dogs. One of the reasons I decided to try the plastic-free July experiement was the mountains of stuff we were throwing out every week. [...]

2018-12-01T09:53:11+00:00 July 28th, 2017|Categories: Personal|Tags: Arbutus Bread, Bia Beauty, bulk buying, Centra, Chair salon, Chicken Inn, cloth nappies, Cobh, coffee, cooking, Cork, East Cork, English Market, environmental, Evo Hair, farmers markets, fruit, Glenisk, Green Earth Organics, Green policies, healthy eating, Hickeys of Maylor Street, incentive, Ireland, Keatings Londis, keep cup, Lush, Mac, Musgrave, nappies, O'Mahony's Butchers, ocean plastic, Organic Republic, packaging, plastic, plastic free july, political activism, retail, sanitary products, shopping, Super Valu, vegetables|

Food fads show interest in health but a little knowledge can be dangerous

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Food fads show interest in health but a little knowledge can be dangerous

Last Sunday morning I sat in a café in Galway, looking forward to a good breakfast. But when I picked up the menu I was met by an array of symbols and letters after every item. V I know. That one means vegetarian. C, I could guess, was coeliac. But P? Paleo. Flipping paleo. If you [...]

2018-12-01T09:56:09+00:00 March 19th, 2015|Categories: Opinion|Tags: diets, fad diets, fitness, food, nutrition, paleo, vegetables|