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It’s a battle, on a cold winters day sending your kids off to school with a healthy packed lunch when you are a busy working parent, knowing that, if left to peer pressure, they would probably happily throw the packed lunch in the bin and head off to the local takeaway for a burger and chips.

All you need to know about preserving the early autumn glut of fruit and vegetables

In today’s society, where just about every fruit and vegetable is available all year round in supermarkets, many of you who do not grow your own produce might ask why bother to preserve summer fruit and veg?

We all know that children need a break from school, but too often we are too busy or too tired to manage their holiday activities.  The result?  Well, we see it every day in the newspapers - bored, housebound kids spending hours on the computer or watching television and eating junk food.

The darker the fruit, the better it is for you – and scientific studies over the past few years have proved that the blueberry possesses a multitude of health benefits as well as being delicious and widely available.

Anthocyanin, the pigment which gives blueberries their dark purply blue colour, is now thought to be a key agent in fighting diseases such as cancer, because of its anti-oxidant properties.  In fact, it is now thought that blueberries contain more anti-oxidants than any other fruit.