Coronavirus: UK families stockpile nappies, food and medicine

Britons are panic buying nappies, toilet roll, soup, tinned fruit, pet food, medicine, bottled water, wine and even setting up ‘isolation’ rooms at home in case coronavirus shuts down their communities, it was revealed today. Families are stockpiling reserves to ensure their homes are ‘fit for a pandemic’ with some purchasing new chest freezers to fill … Read more

Mum uses ‘dump and go’ meal prepping method to make EIGHT weeks worth of food

How to make all your meals for EIGHT weeks: Savvy mum’s ‘dump and go’ food prepping trick is taking the internet by storm A home cook has revealed how she prepares up to eight weeks worth of food  Using multiple freezer bags the woman prepares an array of selected raw meals  ‘Dump and go’ refers … Read more

Sitwells offer food for thought as they sell 300-year-old, £5m family seat

The Sitwells were once among the most celebrated of society families, inspiring the quip that they belonged to ‘the history of publicity’. But things are much less rosy for the current generation — MasterChef critic William Sitwell and his brother, baronet and film producer Sir George. They have, I can disclose, decided to sell Weston … Read more

Warburtons set to turn wonky crumpets into BEER in a battle to stop food waste

I’ll toast to that! Warburtons launches its first ever BEER made from wonky crumpets in a bid to tackle food waste The UK retailer is now selling the 4.2 per cent IPA, called The Toasted Crumpet  It is made from wonky crumpets that don’t make the cut into their packets Beer is the shop’s first non-baked … Read more

Shoppers fight over food in supermarket within Italy’s ‘red zone’

This is the astonishing moment a fight breaks out at a supermarket inside the ‘red zone’ in Italy where 50,000 people have been placed in quarantine. With food running low in the few shops that have remained open after the spread of the coronavirus, the two shoppers came to blows near the tills as a … Read more

The Fast 800 Health Journal: Try these satisfying and slimming suppers

On a cold winter’s evening, nothing is guaranteed to win over the whole family more than a steaming dish of spicy chicken and chickpeas, or aromatic spinach and paneer curry. Even better, these tempting suppers are less than 400 calories a serving, which means they can help you to achieve your weight-loss and health goals. … Read more

Scientists reveal that seagulls prefer food that has been handled by humans

They’re the thievers of food, the pinchers of chips, the scourge of the seaside skies. Now scientists have revealed what we’ve always suspected — seagulls do prefer to eat food that has been handled by us hapless humans. When the birds were presented with two identical food items — one of which they had seen a human … Read more

Girl, 15, collapsed and died in her family home after food particles got into her lungs

Girl, 15, collapsed and died in the kitchen of her family home after tiny food particles got into her lungs during dinner hours earlier, inquest hears Abby Reese Beaumont aspirated on a ‘foreign body’ at her home in North Wales The teenager had made herself a dinner a few hours earlier on April 2  Coroner … Read more