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BROWNIES + WINE TO GO 🍷🍫 New on the blog: Ea

BROWNIES + WINE TO GO 🍷🍫 New on the blog: Easy GF oat flour brownies with a recipe small enough for 1 or 2 in case you’re in lockdown + don’t want 16! I’ve got you 😉
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When we can be with friends, community and real connection are so vital, right? We know we can’t just “hold on till the end” so we’re trying to find ways to invest in being with people. We’re all done with zoom, but even more done with not being around our people so it’s a zoom wine and dessert night. .
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We dropped brownies and organic wine on some doorsteps and met on zoom for chats and added some dinner party questions just for fun! (I grabbed this wine on sale from Waitrose and it was a great £10 range organic red!)
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How are you staying connected with people if/when you can’t see them? Any creative ideas?!

Rolling into the weekend like... . Zero emissions

Rolling into the weekend like...
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Zero emissions vehicle ✔️ Second hand everything ✔️Bag of foraged nettles ✔️.
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Have a good one friends, I know there aren’t so many markers for the weekends now for lots of people, so I’ll be sharing an easy allergy friendly (and flexible for when you have) brownie recipe on Sunday morning if you want to join us in a Sunday treat to mark the weekend! (and it’s in #thewholetreatebook if you want it sooner!) .
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And The Whole Week, my round up of the best bits from the week without the scroll or search will be in your inboxes shortly so head to my bio if you don’t get it and you want the quick weekend read. ❤️

A WEEK’S FOOD SHOP + MEAL PLAN 🛒 . It’s up

A WEEK’S FOOD SHOP + MEAL PLAN 🛒
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It’s up on the blog thewholefooddiary.com for you. Exactly what we bought for the week, and the meal plan we’ll use for it. I’ll be sharing it all in my stories too as the week goes so you can see.
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We need to revisit our budget for 2021 but I aim to spend around £400/$549/€451 month on groceries (food, cleaning supplies, coffee, wine.) So that means a bit less than £100 on each weekly shop leaving some for the less frequent bulk purchases like 25kg bags of spelt flour!
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Not everything gets used within the week so it’s always a rolling shop, some of this will last and I have other staples from previous weeks left. It takes a juggle and spending very carefully to do it while choosing organic/fair trade/low waste etc but it’s very possible with some tricks and planning - my top 10 tips are also there on the blog too if you want to dive in!
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Drop any questions on shopping, how we budget, meals etc below and I’ll answer them!

Hair full of flax seeds 💁🏻‍♀️ and head

Hair full of flax seeds 💁🏻‍♀️ and heading into a device free weekend 📲
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Yep, I haven’t “done” my hair in 6 months but when I do put anything in it, it’s this dirt cheap, organic, DIY but brilliant flax seed gel that I just put on the blog for you.
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My hair is a bit wild and fluffy without product or heat but hair products come with ingredients I don’t want absorption’s into my scalp, or a higher price tag, or they just don’t work 😆
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Who knew all I ever needed was the humble flax seed. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Really though - I’m very careful what I put on my skin or body and into the environment and I know there are good options but any time I can find a cheap win, I’m all about it. If you haven’t tried it - have a go and see how it works for you!
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What are your cheap product hacks?! Any good ones?
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On the blog at THEWHOLEFOODDIARY.COM/BLOG

🪴 It’s time to start planning for 2021 growin

🪴 It’s time to start planning for 2021 growing and all my seeds just arrived! 🪴 Big or small, indoors or out... are you growing anything this year? 👇 Tell me! With most of us probably spending more time at home it could be a great moment to invest some efforts into growing something! It’s a great idea for so so many reasons!
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Growing even a tiny bit of your own food brings it closer to home, using compost instead of sending it to landfill, reducing food miles, losing packaging, reducing waste, and depending on where you normally buy from, stops us relying so much mono crop agriculture. 👩‍🌾
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If you’ve never grown anything before I think the first step is looking at WHERE you could grow. It might be indoors in a window sill box, a few pots or jars, hanging from the ceiling, clever wall shelving, or some indoor planters!
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Outdoors you might have a space you know you could use, or look out for local spaces or allotments and either register or just ask if you could use the lane. Or add some pots (look for free ones in online marketplaces!) or take a portion of you lawn if you have one and use it to grow! Did you know in the US, lawns are the biggest irrigated crop?! That’s not all bad, but imagine if some of that space and water was used for local home growing!
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In the UK the land used for allotments has gone down 65% since WW2 from 1.4million allotments to around 330k currently. It’s estimated that with what was lost could have given 6% of the population their entire 5-a-day!
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There are so many more reasons to dive into growing even just a tiny bit, and I’ll go into them more through the season but it’s something I think is really really important for humans, society and the planet so think about how you could do a tiny bit this year or how you could club together with other people, or invite people to use your land, or add just a pot to a windowsill!

A LESSON FROM MY JOURNEY BREAKING UP WITH AMAZON,

A LESSON FROM MY JOURNEY BREAKING UP WITH AMAZON, CHOCOLATE + CASHEWS. 🍫 📦
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I was going to share a few practical ways to move away from online retail giants in a reel, but here’s a key lesson from the process instead that applies to many key areas. 📦
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Shopping those giants is quick + easy. We’re so normalised to 2 day shipping that we plan our lives around access to things in hours... even when we have questions about policies, treatment of people, care for the planet and when we know small business alternatives are hurting. We’ve built ease into our lives and its hard to let go if what feels “ours”. It’s hard to change the way we’ve built our lives and our expectations of what should be available to us.

The muscle of setting aside our norms for others is one that can be hard to retrain, but once we do or once we start… it can be used in SO many pivotal places. Realising we’ve been hurting people with our lives, with the things we do just cos they’re what we’ve always known or done is painful. It’s not fun to see a local business close when we shopped the giants for ease, or to learn that acid in the shells of the cashews we eat burned the fingers of the people who shelled them for low wages so we could get them cheap, or that the chocolate we ate for years was likely farmed by children who were potentially also trafficked, or that the clothes we bought were made for companies who ignored warning of dangers until their factory collapsed killing workers… and then didn’t do anything to help, or that we’ve participated in racism knowingly or unknowingly through our lives in many ways. Those are not fun moments of realization.
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BUT there’s also a BEAUTY to facing these hard truths about the ways we live life. There’s a great thing about feeling the discomfort of the thing we want to deny, wiggle out of, ignore, pretend we didn’t do… and that is: we get to be part of CHANGE. And that’s a beautiful thing. Not beautiful that we need change, or that we still will in years to come. But every time we learn about ourselves and a way we’ve been doing something, we get to make a change and do things a new way. And that’s a gift we need to embrace and use. ❤️

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