Robin at Clumber, Nottinghamshire
Things didn’t go well for the good intentions – I’m way behind with the postcodes, I didn’t actually do any work last night and I forgot the poem.
On the other hand, we have cheese and we just tested the stollen.
It’s TESCO Finest Stollen, and it is excellent. Unfortunately, having just looked at the reviews on the TESCO, I see that it contains Palm Oil, which is bad for the environment. On the other hand, according to the link, it is a very efficient way of producing oil ans saves using even more land to produce less efficient crops. It’s all very complicated.
I’m afraid it’s time to push the button and publish this sort post. It’s made shorter by me leaving the camera at work again, so just a Christmassy library shot.
Palm oil is everywhere – and not just food. Fortunately, vegetables don’t contain any and they are really good for you 😊
I like fruit. I like vegetables. I’m suspicious of salad. And I really don’t like beetroot.
We are having veggie burgers tonight and Number One Son is cooking sweet potato and peanut curry tomorrow. 🙂
By Wednesday the carnivorous side of my character will return…
Sweet potato and peanut curry sounds quite powerful. I don’t really like the former, although I think they both come from the same part of the world, so it could work.
Glad your children are helping round the house, anyway 😊
It is going to include coconut milk too, which might mellow it a bit. 🙂
Yes…. I’ve found that coconut milk makes a creamy tomato sauce as well.
Whatever happens it is unlikely to compare to his ill-fated jerk chicken experiments. 🙂
Hopefully that is good news 😊
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The only solution to not using palm oil is to home cook almost everything that you eat, a tough ask.
It’s a tricky subject. I like orangutans, but I also like stollen.
I will try to be more responsible about my use of palm oil from January to November.
I’m sure one or two stollen can be forgiven.
I noticed our mince pies had palm oil in them – I don’t like mince pies but my daughter does.
It can be tricky. Fortunately my diet has meant we have cut down on mince pies this year.
That sounds good news…. we just missed Lidl this evening, as we had a late afternoon desire for chocolate, which morphed into Lebkuchen. I don’t actually know if they have palm oil in them but the shop was already closed, so we had to make do with Doritos and satsumas from the Coop instead.
Good luck with the diet.
Thank you.
Julia bought Lebkuchen last week. They were very nice and we are ashamed of ourselves…
Why ‘ashamed’? How many packets did you eat?
One packet. Ten minutes. Well’ we have been holding back instead of eating Christmas treats since September. 🙂
No problem then 😊
We are aiming to eat less, buy better things and eventually wean ourselves off a lot of things. 🙂 Time will tell.
It’s easier to do in small doses, as I’m sure you know already. Start with buying one or two replacements you like anyway rather than say going vegan on Jan 1st 😉
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The robin photo is still a beautiful post. Happy solstice to you and Julia!
I walked out of the shop tonight and I swear it was lighter than last night. 🙂 I always feel better despite the fact we have a lot of winter left.
Hang your camera round your neck. Did you never have your gloves on elastic yokes?
I have to plug it into the computer under the desk – out of sight out of mind I’m afraid. As for elastic yokes – I used to dream of having elastic yokes…
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