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The battle of the supermarkets – again…

26/07/2014 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

This morning Derby City Council was reported as calling for a tax of up to £400 million to be imposed on the larger supermarkets, the money to be spent on regenerating the town centres which have suffered so badly as a result of supermarket expansion. Such a scheme, known as the …

Category: Big Business, Environmental Issues, Food, FreeFrom FoodTag: Classic cinema south end green, Derby City Council, Dorringtons, FEBResearch conference, Freefrom food, FreeFrom Food Awards, M & S Simply food, Professor Simon Capewell, Royal free hospital, Sainsbury's, Sainsbury's local, Sainsbury's local in South end Green, South end green, South end Green a village, sponsorship for freefrom food awards, Supermarkets destroy the lived in environment, tax on supermarket profits, Tesco tax, ultra processed foods and the obesity epidemic

The Allergy Show struts its stuff in the Grand Hall at Olympia

10/07/2014 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

I do love Victorian ironwork. Whether it is the soaring arches of St Pancras Station,  the Palm House at Kew or – the Grand Hall at Olympia. And, in terms of 'grand', you cannot get much grander than The Grand Hall at Olympia. The roof, 115 feet high and constructed from 85 …

Category: Allergies, Alternative/Complementary Health, Coeliac/celiac disease, Conventional Medicine, Cooking/kitchen equipment, Dairy-free, Eczema, FreeFrom Food, FreeFrom Skincare, Gluten, Gluten-free, Nutrition, Nuts, Peanut allergyTag: Allergy + FreeFrom show, Allergy Adventures, FreeFrom Expo Brussels, FreeFrom Foods, FreeFrom Matters newsletter, FreeFrom Skincare Awards, Grand Hall Olympia, history of Grand Hall Olympia, International Horse Show, Janey Lee Grace, Love Natural Love Organic, Royal tournament, Sainsbury's, Skinsmatter, Skinsmatter newsletter, Tropic skincare, Udi's, V Delicious, Venice in London 1891-2

The cost of freefrom food

05/11/2012 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  4 Comments

'As you can see, this is a picture of a FreeFrom pizza purchased from my local Sainsbury's. My name is Jasmine and I was diagnosed with Coeliac disease when I was three and a half years of age. I am now 19, live alone and am on a low but liveable income. My concern is that …

Category: Allergies, Dairy-free, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-freeTag: coeliac disease, cost of gluten-free food, economies of scale, freefrom is good PR, freefrom pizza, gluten-free pizza, growth of freefrom food market, J Sainsbury, manufacturing gluten-free pizza, premiums charged on freefrom food, premiums charged on gluten-free food, Sainsbury's, supermarket freefrom ranges

Supermarkets and moral fibre…

21/03/2012 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  2 Comments

A couple of days ago I received an incandescent-with-fury email berating Sainsbury's and Waitrose for stocking Belvedere Broccoli, a conventionally bred, non-GMO broccoli devloped by the Great Evil One, Monsanto. Now I hold absolutely no brief for Monsanto – I think they …

Category: Environmental Issues, Food, Food/Health PolicyTag: Belvedere broccoli, customer complaints, customer feedback, ethical sourcing, Monsanto, multinational capitalism, Sainsbury's, Waitrose

A Fair Distribution of Awards

10/05/2011 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  5 Comments

Overheard at the Allergy show....  'These awards are all the same – they are all fixed! Just look at the winners – all the big companies like Dietary Specials who can pay to make sure they win....' Well, as it happens, although Dietary Specials did win a category in this …

Category: AllergiesTag: Allergy show, Booja Booja, Clearspring, Conscious Foods, Delamere Dairy, Dietary Specials, Doves Farm, FreeFrom Food Awards, Go Free Foods, Go*Do, Greens, Hale and Hearty, Le Sojami, Look What We Found, Mamma Cucina, Marks and Spencer, Nature's Dairy, Pourtoi, Rice Dream, Sainsbury's, The Black Farmer

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