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#Vegetables

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Diabetes risk hinges on how you cook potatoes

New evidence from decades of data reveals why your method of potato cooking, or what you swap it for, could make a big difference to your long-term diabetes risk. Study: Total and specific potato intake and r…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Cooking ##magnesium #carbohydrate #Diabetes #glycemicindex #nutrients #potassium #Potato #type2diabetes #Vegetables #vitaminc
diningandcooking.com/2226798/d

A happy, if fattening coincidence

#Lidl are running (at least in #Scotland) a #promotion - buy anything and you get a #free #pastry. Now I happen to combine purchasing some small #vegetables or #fruit almost every day, cooking for myself at the moment and liking a fresh choice. I also get in 20 miles or so every day on a #bike, having a little more time and happen to pass a shop which always has good if limited fresh fruit and veg

One pastry a day for free..🥳

Will be pastried out by the 20th.

When we plant our potatoes at the allotment in March/April there are always a few small tubers left over. These we plant in large pots at home, 3 or 4 per pot. The tops of these plants start to die back early August, indicating that the tubers won't get any bigger.
The variety in the foreground is Acoustic and the ones to the rear are Wilja. Both very tasty '2nd early' types.
The growing medium is just compost from our compost heap.
#allotments #vegetables #potatoes #gardening #compost #gardens

Since the last few posts were heavily focused on tomatoes, here is a selection of other vegetables that were harvested this week.

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Da die letzten Posts massiv Tomaten lastig waren hier eine Auschnitt von anderem Gemüse welches dies Woche geerntet wurde.