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To quote from Tim Ferris’ amazing book, The Four-Hour Chef, to eat from this list, if the produce is conventionally grown, will cut your pesticide intake by 90%. His book quotes the 2012 list. I have the updated list for 2013 below. 1. Asparagus 2. Avocados 3. Cabbage 4. Cantalope 5. Sweet corn 6.Eggplant 7. […]

Hmmm. According to Tim Ferris, in his incredible tome The Four-Hour Chef, eating any five of this list will give you a ‘liver-spanking 14 pesticides’.  His book had the 2012 list of 9. I checked out the 2013 list and here are the new top mean 14: 1. Apples. (92% contain two or more pesticides […]

As millions are poured into the Washington State fight to prevent our food being properly labelled, there is already a way we can identify genetically modified fruit and veg. It’s on the PLU. The romantic acronym for Price Look-Up. If it comprises four letters, it is a conventionally grown product. If it is five digits […]

I’m not usually into the fake vegan meat. That sounds weird. I had a stay in Boston. I was looking forward to trying out Grezzo – I love her recipe book – check out her kale chips, for example – only to find it had closed down. There aren’t a ton of vegan restaurants in […]

Well, I have certainly lost weight with this challenge! I wasn’t even paying attention to my weight but I found a skirt which had been too tight for me so I had thrown it to the back of a shelf. During a clear-out over the weekend, I found it and tried it on. It now […]

…Did You Miss Me? It has been a busy  spring – acting in one play – Apple – while writing two others – Humanogram and Tesla. Both have now been produced, so I have a window of time to call my own again. Until I go into rehearsals for Richard III. And then there’s that […]

Week Seven. Wow. I’ve managed to sustain this. Thank you to everyone who has been reading this blog and commenting either here or on Facebook.  It has kept me going. My husband took me to Pure Food & Wine this week, for Valentines Day. Yes, check that again. It…Happened. Pure Food & Wine used to […]

Week 6 already! Blimey, time really flies. Already two-thirds of the way through. I feel great and I definitely have more energy. I even got to sleep a straight eight hours in a row this week (thank you, baby).   Was losing weight but that went back after we bought a bunch of bagels for a […]

I cannot believe I am already half way through this challenge. I began this challenge to see if I would become more energized. As a new mother, I need to increase my energy wherever I can! I have to say, this week I noticed there were a couple of days when I had so much […]

Week 3, already! I cannot believe it! Time really does fly by in a New York minute. Well, I am noticeably slimmer, without intending to be. My husband keeps commenting on it, with varying degrees of politeness, and mostly focusing on the ‘bum area.’ I am grateful for the barometer but, sometimes, I wonder if […]