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These adorable and fun food costumes add so much to Halloween and party time. Each of the food costumes includes party ideas and a yummy recipe to make for your celebrations. I'm loving the Chiquita banana sauce that I found...check it out!

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Over the summer the Riverford Field Kitchen from Riverford Organic has been sending out a weekly kid's challenge with some activities to do with your kids.

This week's activity shows how to make your own bee home AND provides a recipe for sweetcorn fritters.

Don't forget to take the quiz with your kids - how many vegetables can you recognise? Results of the quiz will be published during O

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Riverford Organic has been providing weekly emails with fun summer ideas for children. This week - writing your name in seeds
- making a potato salad

If you haven't found it yet, be sure to take the online vegetable challenge linked to at the bottom of the page.

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Join me! Mums (and dads) of the world unite against cute little artistic lunch boxes called Bento.

Someone needs to speak up for the mums who don't have the time or inclination to make cute little piggies out of pink rice and hard-boiled egg mushrooms just to impress the other mums on the plaground.

Just say No! To Bento.

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Riverford Organics has created this challenge for children. Over the summer they are conducting quizzes, and sharing recipes and other cooking activities with kids.
Do the survey with your child to see how many of the pictured fruits and vegetables they can recognise.

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It's been a long week, ending over the weekend by illness of first my boys and then me. Meaning my menu plan for this week is a day late being written.

I've planned this week's menu to allow hopefully for the heat as it's been a hotter than usual summer thus far and for meeting schedules as we get through the week.

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Lentils are legumes, seeds of a plant whose botanical name is Lens ensculenta. They grow in pods that contain either one or two lentil seeds. Lentils are classified according to whether they are large or small in size with dozens of varieties of each being cultivated. While the most common types in the United States are either green lentils or brown lentils, lentils are also available in black, y

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Whatever the size of your kitchen, however much you may cook, it's always a good idea to have a larder stocked with basic essentials that you might need.

To help me keep track of what is in my larder I have made up a "recipe card" with all of the items listed. This way, when I make up my shopping list I only have to go down the card to check off what I am out of or running low on.

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