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Supermarket shelves hit by Brexit port chaos and staff shortages as stores run low on fruit and veg

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We’re fresh out of fresh food! Supermarket shelves are hit by Brexit port chaos and staff shortages as stores start to run low on fruit and veg Gaps are appearing on fruit and vegetable shelves due to Brexit red tape at ports Lettuce, cauliflower packs and oranges are ‘out of stock’ in Tesco’s in some areas Supermarket … Read more

Eco-friendly Christmas: Cook your turkey sous vide, microwave your veg and forgo the beef Wellington

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Cook your turkey sous vide, microwave your vegetables and forget about the beef Wellington, experts have suggested — at least if you want an eco-friendly Christmas. Researchers from the UK have investigated how to cook a traditional festive meal while reducing greenhouse gas emissions that could compound climate change. The lion’s share of greenhouse gas … Read more

How to cure a fussy eater: Children who eat in a ‘mindful’ way like fruit and veg considerably more 

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How to cure a fussy eater: Children who eat in a ‘mindful’ way like fruit and veg considerably more Researchers suggest asking youngsters to close their eyes to eat vegetables Parent and child should then have discussion about eating the vegetable or fruit  Study found kids who ate like this for five weeks liked fruit and … Read more

Whether roasted, mashed or made into soup, pumpkins are a princely veg, says Monty Don

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Plump for pumpkins! Whether roasted, mashed or made into soup, pumpkins are a princely veg, says Monty Don. All they need is sun and space to spread… Monty Don shares his tips for growing the best pumpkins Says that growing cross-patch crops such as lettuce or radishes can fill space Ensure 5cm of the pumpkins neck … Read more

Poor people eat more meat than the middle-classes who have a diet filled with more fruit and veg

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Wether you eat a vegan or meat heavy diet and your socioeconomic status can be determined simply by looking at proteins in your hair, a new study found. A study led by a team at the University of Utah examined proteins in discarded hair found in rubbish bins from barbershops and salons across 20 US … Read more

73 workers test positive for coronavirus at Herefordshire veg farm with 200 staff forced to isolate

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73 workers test positive for coronavirus at Herefordshire veg farm that supplies Tesco, Aldi, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Asda and M&S – with 200 staff forced to isolate in mobile homes on site 200 workers at A S Green And Co are being asked to self-isolate on the site in Mathon, near Malvern Mass testing was carried … Read more

MasterChef’s Tessa Boersma fails to impress with her ‘elevated meat and three veg’

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MasterChef Top 8 contestant Tessa Boersma fails to impress the show’s judges and fans with her ‘elevated meat and three veg’ By Jessamy Tredinnick For Daily Mail Australia Published: 16:26 BST, 16 June 2020 | Updated: 16:26 BST, 16 June 2020 MasterChef Australia: Back To Win contestant Tessa Boersma left fans and the show’s judges baffled … Read more

Furloughed British workers could pick fruit and veg suggests Environment Secretary

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Minister tells furloughed workers they should get fruit-picking jobs to help farmers who are struggling to fill vacancies George Eustice expects there to be a need to recruit British harvest workers  ‘A third of the migrant labour that normally comes to the UK is here,’ he says Up to 80,000 workers, mostly from Eastern Europe, … Read more

Plane carrying 150 fruit and veg pickers from Romania lands at Stansted

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The first plane carrying 150 ‘critically important’ Romanian fruit and vegetable pickers landed at Stansted this afternoon.  The young Romanians, a mix of men and women and all wearing face masks, filed out of the near empty airport in groups of five to comply with social distancing. They were then transported by buses to a … Read more