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HI EVERYONE, HERE ARE THE DETAILS OF A THE NEXT TALK AT BLOSSOMING TOGETHER CAFE

coming up soon:

nutrition talk 

 "WHOLESOME FOODS FOR 

WHOLESOME CHILDREN"

by South-East London Attachment Parenting on Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 1:36am

 We're pleased to announce a two-part workshop called "WHOLESOME FOODS FOR WHOLESOME CHILDREN", all about providing natural, wholesome nutrition for babies and children up to 3 years. The workshops will be run by Susannah Andrews, a local mother with many years' experience in cooking, infant nutrition, macrobiotics, and running workshops promoting healthy cooking and living for children.

Part 1: Saturday 8 October 2-4pm

Part 2: Saturday 15 October 2-4pm

Each session will run for 2 hours each and the price will include refreshments (organic tea and coffee and home made goodies!). The price will be £12 per workshop and £20 for both workshops, this covers hire costs, ingredients and refreshments. The workshops will be held in Deptford at the new Blossoming Together Arts & Craft Cafe / Gallery, 4 Tanner's Hill, Deptford SE8 4PJ.

Part 1 will be a talk covering child development and optimum nutrition for babies and toddlers (up to 3 years old). Topics covered will include healthy diet, weaning, intolerances/allergies, organic and whole food food, preventing food fussiness, making simple healthy meals, and using food for healing/ maintaining health with a balanced diet. The emphasis will be on macrobiotic principles i.e. the elimination of processed foods in favour of natural foods. There will be time for questions and answers, and also some flexibility as to what we cover, depending on people's interests and particular concerns.

Part 2 will be a practical workshop allowing us to see the theory put in to practice! Susannah will give some simple recipe demonstrations followed by a food sampling and discussion. She'll share a sample weekly menu with us, and we'll be able to take away simple recipes/menu ideas to try at home. There'll be another chance for questions and answers, including covering any questions from the first workshop in more detail, depending on people's interests.

PRACTICALITIES: For both workshops, we would prefer if you can come without babies/children if possible. However this is not an absolute rule, so if you prefer to be with your baby, bring them along, or if help is not at hand ( a kind neighbour or a relative or a nanny/childminder).

BOOKING & PAYMENT: Please book using the meetup.com site - http://www.meetup.com/selap-group/ You will need to register as a member of the SE London Attachment Parenting group in order to do so. When confirming your space, you will be directed to pay either through Paypal or by debit or credit card. IF YOU BOOK BOTH WORKSHOPS , PLEASE PAY FOR EACH ONE INDIVIDUALLY AND SEND ME A MESSAGE TO LET ME KNOW - YOU WILL THEN RECEIVE A REFUND OF £4 TO REFLECT THE DISCOUNTED PRICE! If you have any problems with payment this way, please contact me for details to send a cheque or bank transfer.

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Macrobiotic Cooking

Cooking for those with food allergies can be a major challenge.  With so many processed foods containing so many allergens, meal ideas can become few and far between.  In your next hunt for good recipe books at the local library, take a glace at some macrobiotic cookbooks. 

Macrobiotic cooking is more of a way of life than a collection of recipes.  It may be too disciplined for the regular modern family to follow, but there are certainly some good recipes to be had – all natural and wholesome, containing vegetables, tofu and more. 

Very simplified, macrobiotic cooking involves high quality, natural and organic foods.  It also involves living and eating harmoniously with nature and the seasons.  Macrobiotic chefs cook according to physical structure, working to bring our body in harmony with the natural environment. 

Flipping through a macrobiotic cookbook may remind you of a mixture of both Japanese and vegetarian cooking.  You will find grains, vegetables, rice and tofu.  The creamy barley soup contains no dairy, as with the rice balls, sweetened with plums.  Strawberry couscous cake has couscous, apple juice, water, agar-agar flakes and fresh strawberries. 

If anything, you can find food combinations you might not have thought of - scrambled tofu and corn, soft millet and sweet corn, brown rice salad, millet with squash, kidney beans with miso, and carrot butter.  The recipes are fairly simple and extremely healthy – certainly worth a look if you have to cook for those with food allergies.