Fresh Foda Foodz & tips for better living by Bess & Pete

Fresh Foda Foodz

& tips for better living.

by Bess & Pete.

This is a web site for busy people, who do not have the time to spend in the kitchen.

For house husbands; working mums and anyone who is flatting. There is no need to impress your friends (true friends any way) They should be there for your pleasant company and good conversation and in no fear of having to compete with you in culinary skills.

There are no basic measurements. It's all for your own taste buds. The way the elderly Mediterranean women; my mum; grandmothers and great aunts made a meal. They lived well into their 90's, not like this stressed generation.

No supermarket or Deli fancy ingredients. It is all straight from your garden or pantry.

There is no running down to the shops to buy some ingredients you can't pronounce. This consists of just the plain basics that mums used in the 40's and 50's. Good wholesome food. Homemade jam; a larder full of bottled fruit made from our own trees or abundance of fruit and vegetables handed around the neighbour-hood.

In those days there was just the corner store; the green grocer; the fish monger and the Freezing Works or local butcher. Life was easier. It was tough and penny pinching. Our fast foods was bought at the Pea, Pie and Pud van or Fish n' Chips.

A snack after school was, who collected the bread from the store and ate the fluffy inside of the Barracuda loaf on the way home, much to mum's fury.

A slice of bread and butter smothered with home made Peanut Butter. Yum!

We have an organic garden. I only spray my Roses after pruning as the Praying Mantis; Lady Birds etc soon take wing.

I have a worm farm and that is as good as any fertilizer. The garden has geraniums; Nasturtiums; Marigolds and Herbs growing as good companions. Coffee grinds ward off the snails. ( Chooks fight over them).

We clean with Baking Powder and Vinegar. Remember your Nursery Rhymes "Jack and Jill."

Our gardens and fields are full of wild herbs and edible plants. We will gather them along the way and make delicious salads.

There is an American Indian saying, " Give back to Mother Earth and she will give back to you in abundance."