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Wellbeing Now Seminar 11 & 12 July Southend-on-Sea

Hey folks, we are sponsoring this awesome event this coming weekend in Southend-On-Sea. The Wellbeing Now Seminar will host 48 hours of live workshops and lectures from some of the most influential and cutting edge speakers in the health world. The weekend promises an opportunity for transformation, education and inspiration and is fantastic vale at £55 a ticket for the entire weekend. 

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Scientists link reduction in anxiety among teens who consume fermented foods

A series of studies have begun at the University of Maryland to look at the gut and psychology link. In fact studies like this are happening in many universities globally looking at epigenetics and how we are what we eat and the results are coming in thick and fast. The first study, that the University of Maryland will be published in the journal Psychiatry Research in August, has found that social anxiety and neurosis is reduced in teens who consume fermented foods! How fantastic eh? The Science Daily article is very exciting to us here at Equinox as many customers report feeling great after regularly drinking...

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Harrogate Fine Food show

Last weekend the equinox team attended the Harrogate Fine Food show run by Deliciously Yorkshire and the Guild of Fine Foods. The trade only show brought together Yorkshire's finest food producers.  Success at the show means we'll be seeing Equinox stocked in an array of farm shops and new wholesalers around the North of the country very soon as well as been available nationally in shops and cafes! Check out our new store locator to find a store near you! 

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Baking It; Part 2

 If you’re struggling to find a use for leftover Christmas nuts, how about experimenting with some divinely nutty biscuits & pastries?     Lacking the gluten found in wheat & some other grains, baking pastries & biscuits with nut flours is a whole new ball game. Gluten lends elasticity to dough, making it pliable & easy to work with. A pasty, nut-based concoction is an altogether trickier beast to tame. Treat it with the rough abandon afforded to traditional pastry & it will reward your efforts will a stalwart display of non-cooperation.   However, with a few tricks & turns,...

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Baking It!

  Nut flours make surprisingly convincing baked goods. However, lacking the gluten of the more traditional grain flours, they can be a little trickier to work with, but with a bit of practice it’s easy to produce delicious, nutrient dense cakes, biscuits & pastries.   So for anybody new to baking with nut flours I’m sharing a few of the tips I’ve learned through trial & error.   By far the best nut flours are the ones made at home. Ideally nuts should be stored in a cool place in their shells, the kernels soaked prior to use to remove...

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