Thread: River Cottage

petal · 18-11-2006, 08:54 PM

www.channel4.com/life/microsites/R/rivercottage/

Don't know if any of you saw this series but it was a bit of an eye opener about what we eat. Have a look at the site and see anyway. There's a quiz on there just to see how much you know about healthy eating................(I didn't do that well .........lol)
Click on to Riverside.net (right hand link) to take you to the home site then:

Click on to the 'clucking disgusting' (marked in red) to know what you really eat when you have the 'fast foods' .........but it's bit yucky !

La Manga · 18-11-2006, 09:04 PM

75% okay not bad , but I used to cook for a living

Jac

petal · 18-11-2006, 09:08 PM

I had a tea/coffee shop in the 70's but it was mainly scones, tea cakes and stuff like that. Any cakes I bought from the WI cake stall............lol

La Manga · 18-11-2006, 09:09 PM

I cooked for my pub but think the answers I knew came from the ...................shhhhh constant dieting

never worked
Jac

petal · 18-11-2006, 09:13 PM

Never dieted..........well apart from in the early 60's when the 'grapefruit diet' as it later became known, was then having a small glass of PLJ (pure lemon juice) diluted in water first thing in the morning. Something to do with it breaking down the fat in the system I think..............not sure now though.....been a long time. I do remember I lost two inches off my waist though. (No-one else noticed but I knew........lol)

18-11-2006, 08:54 PM	#1 (permalink)
petal Super Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Horncastle, Lincolnshire Posts: 8,637 Total Awards: 5	River Cottage www.channel4.com/life/microsites/R/rivercottage/ Don't know if any of you saw this series but it was a bit of an eye opener about what we eat. Have a look at the site and see anyway. There's a quiz on there just to see how much you know about healthy eating................(I didn't do that well .........lol) Click on to Riverside.net (right hand link) to take you to the home site then: Click on to the 'clucking disgusting' (marked in red) to know what you really eat when you have the 'fast foods' .........but it's bit yucky ! Last edited by petal; 18-11-2006 at 09:06 PM.
	(AKA Mary) How beautiful it is to do nothing and rest afterwards...

18-11-2006, 09:04 PM	#2 (permalink)
La Manga Advanced Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: La Manga Posts: 576 Total Awards: 1	Re: River Cottage 75% okay not bad , but I used to cook for a living Jac
	La Manga

18-11-2006, 09:08 PM	#3 (permalink)
petal Super Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Horncastle, Lincolnshire Posts: 8,637 Total Awards: 5	Re: River Cottage I had a tea/coffee shop in the 70's but it was mainly scones, tea cakes and stuff like that. Any cakes I bought from the WI cake stall............lol
	(AKA Mary) How beautiful it is to do nothing and rest afterwards...

18-11-2006, 09:09 PM	#4 (permalink)
La Manga Advanced Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: La Manga Posts: 576 Total Awards: 1	Re: River Cottage I cooked for my pub but think the answers I knew came from the ...................shhhhh constant dieting never worked Jac
	La Manga

18-11-2006, 09:13 PM	#5 (permalink)
petal Super Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Horncastle, Lincolnshire Posts: 8,637 Total Awards: 5	Re: River Cottage Never dieted..........well apart from in the early 60's when the 'grapefruit diet' as it later became known, was then having a small glass of PLJ (pure lemon juice) diluted in water first thing in the morning. Something to do with it breaking down the fat in the system I think..............not sure now though.....been a long time. I do remember I lost two inches off my waist though. (No-one else noticed but I knew........lol)
	(AKA Mary) How beautiful it is to do nothing and rest afterwards...