Tag: organic
Leek and Potato Soup
This is such an easy recipe for a really nutritious meal. I make this soup using all organic vegetables, they’re free from chemicals so better for your family and the soup will taste delicious.
This Leek and Potato Soup recipe can be prepared in 10 minutes and within 30 minutes you’ll be sitting down and enjoying ladles of hearty, warm and filling soup.
Serve with some crusty bread on the side for lunch and the family will be full until dinner time.
Leek and Potato Soup
Serves 4
Preparation Time 10 minutes
Cooking Time 30 minutes
Ingredients
50g (2 oz) butter
1 clove garlic, chopped
1 small onion, chopped
3 large leeks, chopped
3 medium potatoes, peeled and diced
900ml vegetable stock
Small handful chopped fresh parsley
Salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
Preparation
Melt the butter in a large saucepan on medium heat and sauté the garlic and onions for a few minutes, stirring frequently.
Add the remaining ingredients and bring to the boil. Simmer for 30 minutes. Purée soup with a hand blender.
Serve with fresh crusty bread.
Riverford iPhone App
Riverford have just launched their brand new Riverford iPhone App with over 770 searchable recipes, inspired by their Field Kitchen restaurant and the recipes included with Riverford vegboxes.
The Riverford iPhone App is free and easy to use!
Just scroll through and select the veg you want to use, using the Riverford veg machine.
Click ‘results’ and you’ll be taken through to a list of recipes that match the vegetables you have.
Alternatively, you can search or scroll through over 700 recipes. Search by ingredient, cuisine, season or eating occasion.
And you can store recipes whilst using them by adding them to your favourites. So you’ll be able to:
- Find a recipe for the veg you’ve got
- Choose from 774 recipes tested by Riverford’s customers
- Learn about veg storage and preparation
- Save your favourite recipes
- Search by veg or by recipe
You can download the Riverford iPhone App here.
Yummy Mummy Skin Care and Beauty
Here are some excellent natural and organic skincare and beauty products I discovered when pregnant.
I simply can’t live without these, even now as a Mummy!
Pregnancy Skin Care
If you want some real pampering when pregnant using natural and organic skincare products, so as not to absorb any dangerous chemicals through the layers of your skin, try the brilliant range of Trilogy Skincare products.
Trilogy is a New Zealand company who use organic Rosehip Oil, renowned for it’s restorative and anti-ageing properties. Trilogy do not test on animals.
As an added bonus, I was lucky enough to get through my pregnancy without one single stretch mark to show for the 9 months (+2 weeks!) of my gradually blooming tummy.
I put my luck down to the regular use of Trilogy products, gently rubbing Trilogy 100% Natural Certified Organic Rosehip Oil over my expanding belly, which helped to prevent stretch marks and was a wonderful way to bond with my growing baby as I talked to her at the same time (she thought it was marvelous having a gentle daily massage and rewarded me with plenty of little kicks and punches)!
I like to use the Everything Balm as a body moisturiser, it smells divine!
I still use Trilogy 100% Natural Certified Organic Rosehip Oil as a facial oil during winter to keep my skin moisturised and the Trilogy Everything Balm is multi-purpose so worth carrying around in your pram bag!
I’m so glad I used Trilogy products when I was pregnant, I couldn’t have done without them – and they’re such great value.
Yummy Mummy Skin Care
With my new baby cradled in my arms and pressed closely against my bosom, the last thing I wanted to do was to transfer chemical-laden creams, potions and lotions onto her delicate skin. I decided I had to go completely chemical-free and discover the joys of organic, natural skin care.
I feel ethereal for making a choice that benefits myself, my baby, the environment and Green People products are not tested on animals. Can it get any better than this?
Green People make everything you could wish for, at a fraction of the cost of many other skincare brands. I highly recommend these products which I use as part of my daily beauty regime.
