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Double Helpings For Top Veggie Breakfast Award
 The Vegetarian Society has announced that this year there are double helpings in the award to find the Best Vegetarian Breakfast 2007. The joint winners of this prestigious award are Vegetarian Lakeland Living B&B, Cockermouth, Cumbria and the Haie Barn Vegetarian B&B, Dorstone, Herefordshire.
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A Pie With A Rare Burns Filling
 Simple Simon’s Perfect Pies, Biggar’s renowned pie maker, has created a Haggis Pie to toast the Scottish Bard on January 25th. What better way to enjoy the "Great chieftain of the puddin'-race", than incorporated into one of Bernard Alessi’s Perfect Pies.
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Watch Cheese Mature Round The Clock At cheddarvision.tv
 They say ‘good things come to those who wait’ – well West Country Farmhouse Cheesemakers are so proud of the year it takes for their perfect-tasting cheddar to reach maturity that they have put a single cheese on a round-the-clock webcam for the whole world to see.
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Conran Restaurants And The RHS 'Grow Your Own Veg' Campaign 2007
 Conran Restaurants is pleased to support The Royal Horticultural Society’s ‘Grow Your Own Veg’ campaign for 2007 with recipe cards from various leading Head Chefs.
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Website Launches To Help Children Eat Their 5-A-Day
 Mums fighting a losing battle at the dinner table now have a helping hand in the shape of Tiny C – the world’s first ‘super-hero’ carrot – created to help fight ‘nutrition crime’ and encourage kids to eat more vegetables.
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Go Green To Beat The Winter Blues
 If you’ve woken up to 2007 feeling tired, fed up and depressed then you’re not alone. In fact, according to official figures 3 million of us suffer from the ‘winter blues’ each year.
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Morrisons Launches New Compostable Packaging
 Morrisons has introduced compostable packaging to its organic fresh produce range. Trays are made of sugar cane fibre, flow wrap films and bag sealing tape made from wood pulp (cellulose) and bags produced from GM free starch. These materials naturally break down in home garden composts over a period of 6-24 months, eliminating the need to dispose of the packaging in landfills.
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Five Ways To Save Money On Organic Fruit And Veg
 There is now little doubt that organic fruit and vegetables are healthier and taste much better. Let’s face it, if everyone could afford it, everyone would eat it. Nobody likes the thought of eating pesticides; the only thing that stands in the way is cost. If you are healthy and eat your five-a-day, the cost of buying all organic in your supermarket may well be out of your budget. The good news is that there are ways to save on organic on organic fresh produce.
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Supply Not Meeting With Demand For Fairtrade Foods
 The growing demand for fairtrade goods in the supermarket is not being met. As a result, UK retailers are missing out on billions of pounds of sales, according to a new survey.
Fairtrade products have emerged as the most popular category in the growing ‘ethical’ consumer goods market, but it is a long way from fulfilling its potential because supermarkets are grossly overlooking its appeal and potential.
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Ugly Parsnips Make Tasty Soup
 An octopus-like parsnip has been officially crowned Britain’s Ugliest Vegetable.
Raised in Bedfordshire, the parsnip resembles an alien life form, complete with tentacle-like tendrils, but competition organisers say that it tastes better than it looks.
The National Trust, which organised the competition, hopes to get the message across to the public that vegetables don’t need to look perfect to taste good.
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