Welcome to Amy Lou's Food page
Here you can explore:
Welcome to Amy Lou's Food page
Here you can explore:
Recent Posts
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Ron: Culinary Activist
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The Good Earth, Wells
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Read on to discover my Foody vision...
Read on to discover my Foody vision...
Apples growing in my parent's garden
“Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads.
How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?”
- Jane Goodall, Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating
Since coming back to the UK I find myself in a previously unknown position for me: I have the space, time, and freedom
to decide exactly which foods I want to put in my body.
A raw, organic salad I created based on a recipe I tried the Vegan Cookery Day with Feed Avalon. (Yeah, I added egg!)
I miss these Chiang Mai breakfasts... the fruit was incredible there!
(The pink is dragonfruit.)
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I have been vegetarian for about a year (beginning with being unsure about eating dodgy looking meat in Thailand), but pretty much everything I have cooked since moving to Glastonbury has been vegan. Not really planned, it just happened that way! I don't want to drink milk anyway, I use oat milk. I love cheese but it doesn't make me feel good and I am not missing it. I eat eggs, and have indulged in a bit of yogurt, (and succumbed to carrot cake on occasion), but everything else has been vegan: and it's a lot easier than I thought. |
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Being in Glastonbury, it is very easy to be vegetarian or vegan. Last week I went to a vegan cookery course with Feed Avalon and I am getting involved in the Gardening Club (read about that here.) I absolutely want to learn to grow my own food, and although my parents have their own plot, I am very much a beginner! |
Food growing at the Red Brick Community Garden, Glastonbury
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One of my creations... sweet potato, kale, caramelised onion with honey, and goji berries. ''Is it organic??'' - of course...
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Now I have time to stop and feel, I find
I believe in this wholeheartedly, because as Jane Goodall says in the quote above... ''How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?'' Good question Goodall! Pretty much everything I buy now is organic, and I enjoy this immensely. Another aspect I am beginning to explore is ''where does my food come from?'' and ''what kind of journey did it have before entering my belly?'' |
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One of my main motivations for creating this blog is that
I would like to have children one day. I aim to rid my body of chemicals, become the healthiest 'me' I possibly can, learn to grow my own food, and promote local, organic food so that when my children grow up they hopefully won't have to pay such a premium on food that isn't damaging their bodies. And if nothing changes, at least I can teach them to grow their own food. |
Mum and Dad's home grown pumpkins!
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Get inspired, get growing, get cooking,
and get conscious about your food!
(Seriously, if I can do it, anyone can.)
A Woman's Words
By Amy Lou Martin
Live. Travel. Feel. Create.