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Buy Local Food : See if you can find out where your food has gone before it gets to your plate. You may be suprised by the results. Often it will make financial sense for companies to transport food enourmous distances by planes, boats and lorries. This dosn't take the environmental cost into account (which of course is likely to lead to greatly increased economic costs in the long term).


Try Eating Raw Food : Raw food can help you detoxify, cleanse and revitalize your mind, body and spirit. Raw and Living Foods contain enzymes. In general, the act of heating food over 116 degrees F destroys enzymes in food. (Enzymes start to degrade in as little as 106 degrees F). All cooked food is devoid of enzymes, furthermore cooking food changes the molecular structure of the food and renders it toxic. Living and raw foods also have enormously higher nutrient values than the foods that have been cooked.


A local veg box shared between friends is a few quid a week, and the perfect way to slash your food miles while eating good food. So if you're self-catering at university why not try a doorstep delivery from one of the many veg box scheme providers?









Ff No-Cream Asparagus Soup (Vegan) Recipe
Ff No-Cream Asparagus Soup (Vegan) Category Vegetable Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

2 md Onions, chopped

2 md Leeks (white and pale green

Parts only), chopped 6 c Vegetable stock

2 lb Asparagus, each cut into 4

Pieces x White pepper 1 pk Butter buds (optional)

Microwave the onions and leeks until tender or saute in water over medium heat until tender. Add stock and the asparagus and simmer until tender, about 15 minutes. Puree soup in blender in batches and strain through a fine strainer. Return to pot and season with white pepper to taste. You may now add the butter buds if you desire a butter flavor. Makes about 8 cups. Can be served hot or cold. Keeps well in the refrigerator for several days. I use this as my basic soup recipe and have successfully replaced the asparagus with beets, broccoli, carrot, acorn squash, butternut squash, and red kuri squash. You can make quite an impression by making both the acorn and butternut squash soups at the same time and serving them in the same bowl. Just slowly pour both soups into opposite sides of the bowl at the same time. I usually serve this with garlic croutons. Posted by "Joseph B. McKay III" to the Fatfree Dig. Vol. 12 Issue 8 Nov. 9, 1994. FATFREE Recipe collections copyrighted by Michelle Dick 1994. Used with permission. Formatted by Sue Smith, S.Smith34, TXFT40A@Prodigy.com using MMCONV.

 
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