Food for Families
milk&more – Dairy Products and More!
milk&more
In addition to the large supermarket chains, there is now a convenient alternative in the online grocery shopping market. milk&more is a service provided by the well established Dairy Crest Group. This useful service allows you to order dairy products as well as groceries and household items online for your next delivery by your local milkman. There are no delivery charges and no minimum spend applies to the service.
In addition to the traditional dairy products, fruit and veg, your milk&more Milkman can deliver a large range of products from household names such as Kellogg’s and Walkers. The convenience of having heavy items such as multi-packs of pet food or large bags of potatoes delivered alongside your daily pint of milk makes milk&more a popular choice for their 1million or more existing customers.
With no minimum spend, milk&more is a great choice for smaller households, whilst the larger packs such as the vegetable boxes that it also offers are ideal for families. There is no need to book a time slot as milk&more deliver early in the morning, up to six days a week providing you order online before 9:00pm the previous evening.
Dairy Crest are building on a 150year tradition of British milkmen and women and incorporating modern online shopping into that tradition and in turn are helping to support local businesses. Unlike the faceless supermarket giants, milk&more offers a friendly, reliable local service straight to your door. For further information about their services and product range visit them at www.milkandmore.co.uk.
How to make an ice cream soda
Ice cream sodas are a tasty summer treat that’s so easy to make. Sometimes called an ice cream float, an ice cream soda is created by mixing ice cream with soda or gaseous water and flavored syrup. While many individuals consider root beer and vanilla ice cream to be the classic ingredients for an ice cream soda, there are lots of possible adaptations for you to try. For instance, you can make a “Brown Cow” by mixing Coca-Cola, chocolate syrup, and vanilla ice cream. Make a “Canary Island Special” by mixing chocolate ice cream, vanilla syrup, and seltzer. [Read More...]
Shopping for your Home
How Do Kitchen Appliances Work?
We all own some kitchen appliances, some of us more than others. They make our lives easier and help us get on with our day a lot of quicker. How often do we actually think about how our appliances work? Maybe only when they break and all of a sudden we are left with things to do that will take us a lot longer than usual.
Our kitchen appliances work on the syncing of electronic components. Our appliances work best when they are maintained and the components work in harmony, providing an excellent result. The electrical components that you will find in an appliance depend on what its function is. For instance a kettle will have an element that will heat up as the electricity feeds into it, this element will in turn heat the water to boiling point. A toaster on the other has to produce a different outcome and therefore will possess different components. In a toaster you will find nichrome wire twisted round a mica board, when heated up this wire turns red and produces infrared radiation. This radiation toasts the bread. [Read More...]
Cookers, Ovens and the Environment
Although using our cookers and ovens is not the most harmful thing we can do for the environment it does represent three per cent of the average persons co2 emissions. So that means there is always room for improvement. Doing things such as using less water when boiling vegetables and using a lid on the pan will mean it will take less time to cook them. In turn this means you will generally cook for less time and use less energy. Gas ovens generally output less co2 than electric ovens, although they do use more fuel they are still better for the environment because of the output. So if you are buying a cooker try to opt for a gas oven. In terms of energy consumption microwaves use far less energy than ovens do and so if you are planning on reheating food or defrosting vegetables use a microwave for this.
When using a cooker to prepare a meal common sense should ensure you use less energy. Cutting food into smaller pieces means they will cook faster and simmering food rather than boiling it at a really high temperature will ensure less energy consumption. One pot meals are always a good idea as they cut down on the amount of rings you will have on, on your cooker. It will also cut down on washing up, thus cutting down on water and equaling less energy used. All aspects of using a cooker will result in energy consumption but we can make the more sensible decisions which will mean lowering our individual carbon footprints. [Read More...]
Family Health
Healthy Mum, Healthy Family
Healthy Mum
Busy mums often put their own needs to the back of their mind when it comes to prioritising your daily routine and fitting everything into what can often be a hectic schedule. Dropping children off at school, nursery or childminders, working, picking children up, making dinner (something that is both nutritious and will be eaten!) tidying and cleaning then getting prepared for the next day – and all this before you’ve done the weekly shopping.
It’s always good to sit down as a family and eat a healthy, nutritious well balanced meal but there are some occasions where it’s not always possible. If you or your partner work late and the children need feeding before or if you simply just don’t have time.
On numerous occasions you find yourself sitting down of an evening exhausted and without the energy to make yourself something healthy and so you enter into a cycle of nibbling or grabbing whatever is in the cupboard, which is often not the best choice but simply the most convenient. Ultimately you end up putting on weight by eating the wrong things.
That’s where diet food delivered to your door could well be the answer. Imagine having your own personal chef creating delicious, healthy and low fat meals then cooking them and delivering them straight to your door. There are now companies that specialise in this sort of service which is ideal not only for people who want to diet in a healthy, convenient way but also lends itself to busy mums looking to shed post baby weight. You can get healthy snacks and drinks included aswell so your whole day’s food is carefully calorie counted and well-balanced to help you loose weight in a convenient and cost effective way.