31 h. ago Schools in Spain required to serve fruit, vegetables and fish in fight against obesity

Rules brought in this week limit amounts of fatty and fried food and levels of sugar and caffeine in drinksAll schools in Spain will be legally obliged to serve fruit and vegetables as part of their lunches and fish at least once a week under new rules aimed at reducing the amount of fried and fatty food served to children.Hailed by the government as a key plank of the fight against childhood obesity, the rules brought in by royal decree this week will also compel schools to offer vegetarian and vegan meals. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Islanders left without milk, butter, meat and cheese for five days amid supermarket fail

The supermarket was also left without fresh fruit and vegetables after the usual order did not appear amid the crisis.

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8 d. ago RHS experts on the jobs all gardeners should do this spring for healthy fruit and vegetables

Here's what you can do to help your plants during spring

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9 d. ago Cool runnings: how to cut time and waste by making the most of your freezer

From planning ahead and avoiding freezer burn to creating flavour bombs in ice trays, here are some expert tipsPreparing meals in advance and portioning out meat, fruit and vegetables to be frozen can save money, avoid waste and cut the time you spend cooking. Continue reading...

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1 week ago The cheap superfoods that can protect you from deadly effects of microplastics

Work by scientists in China suggests there is a way to counteract the dangerous tiny particles, by eating any 'deeply colored fruit or vegetable'.

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1 week ago Gardeners told to avoid job that's a 'magnet for slugs' eating their way through plants

Gardening experts have shared their top tips for growing fruit and vegetables - including how to avoid attracting slugs and when to avoid watering your plants

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2 w. ago Ezra Klein on Trump, Vance and free speech: ‘It feels like we are in one of the darkest imaginable timelines’

The influential US commentator has written a book about how politics can change people’s lives for the better. But first, there are more pressing challenges to address ...Ezra Klein, the New York Times podcast host and progressive media’s undisputed nerd king, starts his new book with something of a palate cleanser for our troubled times. For a few paragraphs, he and his co-author, the Atlantic journalist Derek Thompson, whisk us out of the grim reality of contemporary politics to a world of Abundance (the word they picked as their title).“You open your eyes at dawn and turn in the cool bedsheets,” they purr, before conjuring a near-future utopia where the cost of living crisis is a distant memory. “You live in a cocoon of energy so clean it barely leaves a carbon trace and so cheap you can scarcely find it on your monthly bill.” The fridge is full of fresh fruit and vegetables from skyscraper farms that sit amid rewilded landscapes. This is what we can look forward to, they say, if...

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3 w. ago Mum shares 'amazing' hack to get fruit and veg for half price every week

Codrina, a mum-of-two, shared her go-to tip on how she manages to get a weeks worth of fruit and vegetables for half price - and it's all to do with what day you buy them on

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