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The 5 second breakfast solution from FOGA, giving busy people their daily RDA

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British wellbeing brand FOGA, have just launched their new range of freeze-dried ‘just add water’ food-state multivitamin plant-based smoothies that contain the full RDA of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and phytonutrients – making them one of the easiest and most cost effective ‘fast-food’ breakfast or snack solutions for busy people.

FOGA’s new range of all-in-one food-state multivitamin smoothie blends are the ultimate, healthy breakfast or snack solution for busy people

Just add water and in 5 seconds you can enjoy a delicious, and nutritious organic fruit, veg and superfood smoothie that provides all your essential daily requirements of vitamins and minerals
Simply add water and whizz your FOGA in the FOGAMATIC USB charge portable blender, and enjoy anywhere at any time. It’s the ultimate on-the-go health solution.

smoothies, busy, quick.
Forget shop-bought, sugar-laden smoothies – FOGA has a healthier solution.
Many people have little time to make healthy food, so FOGA have created a new wellness solution that suits everyone, from busy mums on the school run, to time poor office workers.

Made in seconds by whizzing with water (in a FOGAMATIC personal blender, or any other blender), the shakes combine over 150g of freeze-dried organic fruits, vegetables, and superfoods with FOGA’s new food state multi-nutrient complex – an innovative technique of infusing vitamins into organic buckwheat sprouts to create food state nutrients for easy absorption and maximum bioavailability.

FOGA smoothie blends are free from sweeteners, flavourings, and preservatives of any kind, and are fully plant based (and including B12 and D3) and contain no gluten ingredients.

No fruit? No problem!
Available in 20 delicious flavours, including Peach & Cayenne, Banana & Turmeric and Passionfruit & Papaya, a FOGA smoothie in the morning is a super easy way to boost your daily fruit and veg intake. Just enjoying one daily FOGA plantshake can increase your fruit and veg to up to 30 portions a week – as well as now ticking off all your vitamin and mineral needs. No matter how busy your day gets or how tempted you get by other deliciousness, you’ll know that you have your daily nutrients covered. Just add a pouch to water and whizz for an enjoyable food solution that supports your health across the board.

No blender? No problem with the new FOGAMATIC portable blender!
You can worry even less about how to get your goodness on-the-go, no blender at the office? No problem. FOGA have launched the new FOGAMATIC a portable blender. This handy handbag sized USB charge portable powerful blender whips up FOGA shakes to silken perfection while retaining maximum nutrition and flavour. No plug-in cable or batteries needed, the FOGAMATIC is ready whenever you are – take it to work, pop it in your gym back, pack it for your commute – be that train, plane, or car journeys – it’s so quiet that you could even use it in the library! Available in Matcha, Coconut and Strawberry colour – take it with you wherever you are and keep your health goals on track.

Primrose’s Kitchen Raw Superfood Smoothies Recipe

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Primrose’s Kitchen is celebrated International Raw Food Day by encouraging customers to ‘think raw’!

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After the recent launch of the delicious Raw Nut Butters, a wonderful source of protein and a great alternative to traditional nut butters such as peanut butters, Planet Organic is running a raw food promotion throughout the month of July including not only the nut butters but also Primrose’s Kitchen Superfood Powders in Brain, Cleanse, and Energy.

 

Primrose’s Kitchen is also encouraging people to try Raw Superfood smoothies and boost their protein:

 

 

 

Ingredients

1 cup raw almond milk

2 frozen organic bananas

1 cup organic baby spinach

¼ cup raw almonds, soaked

¼ cup goji berries (3 to 4 reserved for garnish)

1 tablespoon raw cashew butter

1 teaspoon raw coconut shreds (for garnish)

1 teaspoon organic raw cacao nibs (for garnish)

1 teaspoon raw Brazil nuts, ground fine (for garnish)

 

Instructions

Place all ingredients (except garnishes) in a high-speed blender.

Blend until smooth and creamy.

Pour into a tall glass and garnish with goji berries, coconut, cacao nibs, and Brazil nuts.

 

Thinking outside of the box and opening minds to the potential of raw foods is key to naturopathic nutrition. Famous fans of Primrose’s Kitchen included Millie Makintosh of Made In Chelsea fame.

 

 

Sophie Michell & Ocado- Tweet Yourself Thin-recipes for summer: Tuesday

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TUESDAY

Coconut, Mango and banana smoothies

Makes 4
Prep time 5 minutes
300ml of natural coconut juice (like Vita coconut)
1 ripe mango
3 ripe bananas
1 lime
1. Peel and roughly chop the mango and bananas.
2. Place the fruit and the coconut juice into a blender and blitz until smooth,
then add the lime to taste and serve!
Sweet chilli and soy chicken wrap
Prep time 10 minutes
Cooking time 1o minutes
3 chicken breasts (approx 180g each)
1 tsp soy sauce
2 step sweet chilli sauce
½ cucumbers
2 spring onions
2 carrots
Handful of rocket
4 flour tortillas
1. Cut the chicken breasts into strips and then mix with the soy sauce and a table spoon of the chilli
sauce. Leave while you prep the veggies.
2. Cut the cucumber into strips, and then do the same with the spring onions and the carrots.
3. Heat up a frying pan and then pan fry the chicken strips for about 10 minutes, turning
occasionally. Make sure the chicken is cooked throughout.
4. Then build the wraps, by piling up some veggies, chicken strips and rocket, in a tortilla with an
extra drizzle of chilli sauce if wanted.

Pecorino, Pear and watercress salad with char grilled turkey breasts
Serves 4
Prep time 10 minutes
Cooking time 15 minutes
4 turkey breast steaks (approx 180g per steak)
4 ripe pears
2 celery sticks
150g pecorino cheese
150g watercress leaves
50ml olive oil
Squeeze of lemon
Sea salt and pepper
2 tsp thick balsamic

1. Heat a griddle pan up very hot and then oil and season the turkey steaks. Then lay each steak
down on the griddle and cook for about 5 minutes each side.
2. Finely slice the pears and the celery (on an extreme diagonal looks great) then using a peeler add
shavings of the cheese and add the watercress. Mix with the lemon and the olive oil, and then
season.
3. Pile up the turkey breast and salad on the plates then drizzle with a little balsamic

Innocent launch a film making competition

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On a rainy Saturday morning in February, the Frost Editors went to Innocent HQ (aka Fruit Towers) to take part in a workshop held to launch Innocent Smoothie’s Mini Movie Competition. Kind of like the most pleasant post apocalyptic scene I can imagine, we were greeted by a lush gate of green grass and vans also covered in grass. In side was more grass, picnic tables, bean bags, unusual random objects, some very tiny fences and lots of smiley happy people. As soon as I was through the door I was inundated with beverages both hot and cold.

Listening to a presentation at Fruit Towers

Inspiring this competition was Innocent’s recently made TV advert. Their Superhero ad differs from everything else on the TV at the moment as theirs is Lo-Fi. Using absolutely no CG and embracing the ‘I can see the strings’ mentality the ad was typical of the Lo-Fi style of Ben Wheatley (the ad’s creator) who gave us a presentation on film making.

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After letting us into the little secrets of the advertising industry we were given lunch in picnic hampers! Apart from the crumbs, there was one thing one everyone’s mouths…how can THEY get a job at fruit towers?! We then were split into groups and given Mini Movie Making kits, containing a bottle, a cape, stick, string, farmyard animals, tiny people and other random things presented in a show box and tied up with beautiful movie reel ribbon.

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Mini Movie Making Kit

So there we were with our teams, a theme, camera equipment and the knowledge gathered in the morning’s presentation. We storyboarded away, filmed and created masterpieces. I can’t find our mini movies on the internet anywhere so you will just have to take our word for it. Everything we did had to be edited “in-camera”, meaning we couldn’t edit anything at all on the computer afterwards, this resulted in lots of giggles to the “cut”‘s and “action”‘s being left in.

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Catherine Balavage with a chicken at Fruit Towers

The Innocent Mini Movie competition is now open and you have until 17th April to submit your own lo-fi advert. The winner (voted for by the public) will receive £5000, tickets to the London Film Festival and your advert will be broadcast on national telly. There’s a lose brief, your mini movie must be no more than 30 seconds, contain no CG, music (although sound effects are allowed) no branding (other than innocent) and they must be submitted via

the Innocent You Tube Channel. To submit your entry you need to go here: http://www.youtube.com/innocentdrinksltd