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What really makes us late in the morning…

1/26/2011 3:37 AM EST
Overslept? Running late for work? Missed breakfast? You’re not alone. New research* shows that many employees still struggle to get up in the morning, with potential consequences for health, working lives, and even integrity!
Hitting the snooze button or pulling the duvet over your head can often result in being late for work, but it seems many employees are reluctant to own up to their bosses about what has...

If you snooze you lose - EMBARGOED 0:01am Monday 24th January

1/23/2011 1:00 PM EST
Four in ten of us miss breakfast in the working week because we oversleep, according to new research*! It’s maybe not surprising, when three in ten people claim they hate getting up and 54% of us set our alarms to snooze. While men often get accused of being lazy and sluggish, the findings show that women are in fact the worse offenders.
The findings, issued for Farmhouse Breakfast Week (Jan 23-29 2011), show...
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Shake Up Your Wake Up With Farmhouse Breakfast Week 23 - 29 January 2011

1/12/2011 7:23 AM EST
It’s time we all started the day the right way, with a quick and easy healthy balanced breakfast. The twelfth annual Farmhouse Breakfast Week is being rejuvenated for 2011 with a new theme “Shake Up Your Wake Up”. Organisers HGCA are challenging the one in four breakfast skippers(1) to rethink their morning routine and start the day the right way, with breakfast. As the most important meal of the day it need only...

LEAF Marque: Helping growers and producers to realise the opportunities of Londo...

9/9/2010 4:45 AM EST
Sustainability lies at the very heart of the Food Vision for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. It calls for catering that delivers a tastier, healthier and greener Games. Food producers, who can prove their sustainable and environmentally responsible credentials though assurance schemes such as LEAF Marque, are ideally placed to meet many of the core objectives of the London 2012 Food Vision.

How to impress at the check out: Women admit to sizing up men by their shopping

8/12/2010 8:35 AM EST
Women have come clean and confessed to a guilty shopping secret. A new survey reveals that nearly nine out of ten women in the UK judge their fellow shoppers on the contents of their shopping basket. When it comes to sizing up men, it seems that nothing impresses women more than a man who buys red wine and potatoes.
These findings lift the lid on just how far women go when eyeing up men at the checkout,...

Guild of Food Writers Awards Winners

6/18/2010 10:46 AM EST
Last at the Design Museum, London, the Guild of Food Writers announced the winners of their much- coveted annual Awards. Colin Spencer presented the beautiful engraved trophies to some of the industry’s finest writers and broadcasters. Amongst the 12 winners there were some familiar names and some new ones to add to the roll of honour.

Nigel Slater, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Tom Parker Bowles were all...

Grow Your Own Potatoes - Thousands of pupils harvesting next week

6/17/2010 4:15 AM EST
Around the country excitement is mounting, as thousands of primary school children prepare to harvest the potatoes they planted back in the spring. During the week of June 21st a record number of nearly half a million pupils will be harvesting potatoes as part of Potato Council’s Grow Your Own Potatoes project (GYOP). Schools that submit the weight of their crop will be in with a chance of winning an allotment...

Grow Your Own Potatoes - Join your local school for harvesting

6/11/2010 4:12 AM EST
Around the country excitement is mounting, as thousands of primary school children prepare to harvest the potatoes they planted back in the spring. During the week of June 21st a record number of nearly half a million pupils will be harvesting potatoes as part of Potato Council’s Grow Your Own Potatoes project (GYOP). Schools that submit the weight of their crop will be in with a chance of winning an allotment...

With Just 4 Days To Go Until Open Farm Sunday - Interview Local Farmers Taking P...

6/10/2010 5:47 AM EST
With less than a week to go until Open Farm Sunday 2010 (13 June), farmers across the country are busy preparing to open their farms to the public. This annual event organised by LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming) is a must for anyone interested in food, farming or the countryside.
If you would like to visit a farm prior to Open Farm Sunday then let us know. You could follow a local farmer as they make their...

Playing at Farming Confuses the Country

6/9/2010 3:00 AM EST
Playing at Farming Confuses the Country

Playing online farming games may be fun, but new research suggests that they are in fact disconnecting us from what happens on a real farm. One in ten of those adults who said they regularly play online farming games believe strawberry milkshake comes from either pink cows or cows eating strawberries*, and over 11% expected to find rice growing on a British farm**. Forty one...