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Living in the North of Scotland, vegan, home educating, dancing, cake eating, writing, woodland walking... no set subject matter here really though :)
The more ancient archives are the old home ed diary starting in June 2005 and evolving on from there.
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Salt of the Earth deodorant
totally natural and awesome!
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Beautifully pure laundry nuts... better for the planet and your skin... works out cheap too.
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The greatest blender ever...
The Vitamix!
Used daily by us :)
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very powerful for it's size
smaller price than Vitamix
great containers too
The Tribest Personal Blender
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Coconut oil is a youth enhancing, beautiful smelling moisturiser, a healthy cooking oil and a hair conditioner...
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Detox Your World: Quick and Lasting Results for a Beautiful Mind, Body and Spirit. A fabulous guide to optimal healthy living.
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A great little guide to Britain's wild foods
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How to Grow Your Own Food: A Week-by-week Guide to Wild Life Friendly Fruit and Vegetable Gardening - actually a very good, humorous read too. Full of practical advice for getting the most food out of your garden.
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Scottish macaroons posted on January 24, 2010
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graze posted on October 13, 2010
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These creamy white buttons make the most amazing white hot chocolate! See Cat's recipe on The Modern Housewife blog.
Category Archives: vegan products
Innocent Veg Pots
details here, most varieties are vegan. 50 people that take part in this survey will win one Related posts:knitted digestionapocalypse nowreflections and windows
a little bit summery
sauce: two tomatoes, 1 apple, 3 cloves of garlic, garden herbs of lovage, sage and mint and then some hulled hemp seeds, all blitzed up Related posts:rhubarb, roses, lettuce and nettlesguinea pigs, gardens, castle, stonesthe fridge post
RAWR
Beautiful raw chocolate vegan Easter box from RAWR – delicious, gorgeous packaging, we highly recommend and because we haven’t had one for a long time, a photo of a sunsetty loch Related posts:honeysucklemmmskoool and sooup
frost, a competition and Rain
The competition is not our own this time, it comes from Linda McCartney Foods and has superlative prizes of 3 £1500 cookers and a £4000 dinng table The Search for the UK’s Tastiest Meat Free Dish is running from 15th of November this year until the 28th January 2011. You can submit your best recipe [...]
squash and snuggles
There is a pumpkin soup recipe and a butternut squash recipe on our soup page, though lately weve been enjoying them in a creamy soup thus: peel, deseed and chop squash of choice, cover with water and bring to boil. Add in onion, lots of garlic, a chilli and salt to taste. Blend up with a [...]
graze
The postman just bought our first graze box, which we got free, and it’s gorgeous. Very high quality snacks in there, loads to choose from on their site. There’s even a non-vegan food list so you can bin all those items if you are vegan, though I would say the majority of it is fine. [...]
cream of tomato soup and a cheese and onion pasty
recipe up here made in a very similar manner to the basic pasties on frugal but using Kamut flour in the pastry and filled with chopped red onion, cubed potatoes and cheezly, all cooked in a little soya milk first, also very good Related posts:10 years on… and forest fruits…Halloweenremembrance
moo free chocolates
Moo Free Chocolates sent us some goodies to try. A sweet, mild chocolate very reminiscent of milk chocolate, went down well with our teens, I think younger children would love it too. I do like the sparkly blue foil It’s vegan (well, duh), organic and uses fairtrade cocoa. There is also going to be an [...]
flower and butterfly
I do like to put things on t shirts… both in shop… Related posts:whalewalnut cake and sheepTransformation



