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Earthmiles App

Get collecting Earthmiles!

This week we are thrilled to announce our partnership with an awesome new app: Earthmiles. Earthmiles links to your favourite tracking app (like Runkeeper, Map My Run or Strava), enabling you to start racking up “earthmiles” every time you walk, run or cycle. With earthmiles you can redeem an amazing variety of discounts and free stuff, including discounts on our very own P&C nutrition consultations. The rewards centre of the app is a health nut’s paradise, with exciting and relevant products and services on offer. So carry on with your workouts (or get back into the routine quickly) so you can win these generous and exclusive healthy offers. What’s not to love? The app is available on iTunes by following this link here


Eat
Chocolate Week 2014

Divine chocolate week…

If Chocolate Week doesn’t give us all an excuse to enjoy some chocolate, we don’t know what does! Chocolate Week runs from 13-19 October and is officially sponsored by Divine Chocolate, the only Fairtrade chocolate company that is 45% owned by cocoa farmers. To celebrate, we’re suggesting a few dark chocolate treats to sink your teeth into. Artisan café Foxcroft & Ginger has created Divine Chocolate & beetroot cake pops, a more virtuous sweet snack with a root vegetable base.  If you’d rather be covered in chocolate than eat it, visit the K West Spa for their Divine Dark Chocolate & Sea Salt Body Scrub. Eco-friendly hotel Lancaster London is offering a chocolate menu for diners in their Island Grill, recipient of a top rating from the Sustainable Restaurant Association, as well as a Divine Chocolate Afternoon Tea in their Lounge Bar. For more information on these Divine Chocolate Week promotions, visit Luxe PR.


Drink
Love Kombucha

A craving for kombucha

Move over kimchi there is new fermented superfood in vogue. If you haven’t yet tried kombucha, get ready for a treat. Kombucha is an extremely refreshing soft drink, created by adding a live culture to sweetened green tea. The culture consumes the tea and sugar and creates kombucha. Unfortunately many mainstream kombucha drinks still have very high levels of sugar, even after the cultures have done their work. Berkshire-based company Love Kombucha have managed to make a delicious drink in a range of flavours that are very low in sugar, and which make for a great alternative to commercial soft-drinks. Alternatively you can have a go at making kombucha at home, with the help of Karma Kombucha, who have put together a kit which makes up to 5 litres of kombucha, available from Wholefoods and Realfoods.


Watch
The Hundred Foot Journey

The Hundred-Foot Journey

We recently popped along to the cinema to see The Hundred-Foot Journey and felt inspired to write about it this week, as films that are able to conjure up the full effects of wholesome food on camera don’t come around that often. The film tells the story of Hassan Kadam, a culinary ingénue, who along with his family, moves to a small village in the South of France with the intention of opening an Indian restaurant. The problem is they open right opposite a Michelin-starred French eatery whose owner is determined to shut them down. What ensues as a major culinary clash between the two restaurants creates a feast for the audience’s eyes, quite literally, with beautiful, colourful food that you can almost taste through the screen. The film was also a reminder that a healthy relationship with food is just as much about the love and joy that goes into it, as it is about the specific ingredients!