Four Corners ran the BBC program "Chocolate: The bitter truth" last night.... just thought it was worth sharing - so here it is below (in 6 smaller videos).
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Our Get Outdoors Challenge finishes with a psst....
We were going so well as a family getting outdoors daily in April until the last week..... I had a huge workload... running workshops and teaching... I had help from Grandma... and the kids were getting outdoors a bit... then the first colds for the year started to keep the kids indoors and in bed.
While I was working Grandma managed to fit in some walks with the kids, the boys started their outdoor soccer and the kids spent time building their cubby in the back yard.
We have found that getting outdoors as a family daily is a hard task to achieve... even though the kids manage to play outdoors most days. I would like to now think that I could use at least one outdoor time on weekly basis to get the kids closer to nature.
We started today by having a picnic and bushwalk up at the Pinnacle Reserve amongst the tall Manna Gums and Snow Gums.
- although we were all horrified to see a bulldozer clearing the lovely bush below! (that's the tiny yellow spot in the middle of the photo)
some outdoors time with Dad earlier in April...
While I was working Grandma managed to fit in some walks with the kids, the boys started their outdoor soccer and the kids spent time building their cubby in the back yard.
We have found that getting outdoors as a family daily is a hard task to achieve... even though the kids manage to play outdoors most days. I would like to now think that I could use at least one outdoor time on weekly basis to get the kids closer to nature.
We started today by having a picnic and bushwalk up at the Pinnacle Reserve amongst the tall Manna Gums and Snow Gums.
We even managed to get sick kids up to the lookout to enjoy the views over Orange
- although we were all horrified to see a bulldozer clearing the lovely bush below! (that's the tiny yellow spot in the middle of the photo)
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Our moves to a better hot chocolate as winter approaches...
It is the start of Fairtrade fortnight... and we are all being encouraged to swap to Fairtrade brands of at least one thing. As mentioned in my earlier post... we are going to commit to changing (or our Big Swap) to Fairtrade chocolate, drinking chocolate and coffee. So this is what we are doing.
I have been trying to change our hot chocoalte powder over our last few shops... the photo below showing our progression..... We had started with Cadbury's Drinking Chocolate.... and then with limited options in our supermarket moved to the Organic Earth Organic Drinking Chocolate... a step better because it was organic .... On our last trip to the shops I picked up a container of Republica Drinking Chocolate which is 100% Fairtrade, Australian Owned and Organic drinking chocolate.... and it tastes great... a much richer chocolate than many of the other hot chocolates on the shelves.
With continued increase in demand for organic and Fairtrade products I do hope the choice of products on the shelves will continue to increase.
On the coffee front... I have been bringing home a (limited) range of Fairtrade coffee beans available in our shops and have established a taste score sheet up over the coffee grinder to find a coffee that passes the taste test of Dad who is a coffee snob. I will let you know how we are progressing on finding a Fairtrade coffee to swap too.
With continued increase in demand for organic and Fairtrade products I do hope the choice of products on the shelves will continue to increase.
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