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We are so pleased to welcome Noah’s Ark Farm Shop as a new stockists - a Farm Shop …and Zoo!

The shop stocks our delicious meals, crispbreads and crackers and it can be found near Bristol.

https://www.noahsarkzoofarm.co.uk/noahs-ark-farm-shop

More good news - we are on promotion with wholesaler The Health Store this month with 10% off our delicious cracker and crispbread ranges.

Check out the website here https://www.thehealthstore.co.uk/ and start to plan your cheese and cracker picnic combo!

We’re so pleased to let you know of a great deal we have with Ocado at the moment - buy any one of our meal pots and get a packet of rice for £4!

You can find the link here - https://www.ocado.com/browse?filters=easy-bean-13772 - and the offer will run for the next couple of weeks.

The offer includes all of our delicious meals but the Moroccan Chickpea & Aubergine meal pictured, for example, is vegan-friendly, high in fibre, contains three of your five a day and is gluten-free. It’s super-delicious as well of course!

Or how about our Indian Cauliflower & Spinach Sambar Dhal? Again it’s suitable for a vegan diet and has a tasty mix of vegetables, spices and dhal.

All of our meals taste wonderful with a serving of basmati rice.

Why the smiley face? Because it’s World WellBeing Week - what have you been doing?

Now in its third year, World WellBeing Week offers people the opportunity to promote an overall awareness of wellbeing - including social, physical, emotional, financial, career, community and environmental.

World WellBeing Week also recognises the professional practitioners in this burgeoning sector.

Check out the Facebook page, there’s still time to get involved! http://www.facebook.com/WorldWellBeingWeek

We’re interested in healthy eating - because it’s good for you as well as tasting good. So we welcome awareness-raising weeks like Diabetes Week which is happening now. People from across the UK are coming together to share their experiences of living with diabetes and raise awareness of what it is like to live with the condition.

The theme of Diabetes UK’s Diabetes Week (which runs until 20 June) is #DiabetesStories

Diabetes affects 4.9 million people in the UK, including almost a million people living with undiagnosed type 2 diabetes. If not managed well, all types of diabetes can lead to devastating complications, including sight loss, amputation, kidney failure and stroke. There is currently no known cure for any type of diabetes.

Chris Askew OBE, Chief Executive at Diabetes UK, said: “We’ll be celebrating the incredible diabetes community by sharing stories of people with diabetes and what the last year has been like for them.”

Diabetes UK’s free online Know Your Risk tool helps individuals measure their risk of type 2 diabetes, while you can find out more about the signs and symptoms of diabetes here.

We’re so pleased to welcome some stockists in three lovely parts of the country.

First up - Hertfordshire and Carpenter’s Nursery and Farm Shop, the oldest farm shop in St Albans, Hertfordshire.  The award-winning Farm Shop has a wide range of own grown produce. https://www.carpentersnursery.co.uk/farm-shop

You can also shop for Easy Bean products at Leaf & Ground in beautiful South Gloucester with a host of attractions on the 20 acre site as well as the well-stocked shop. https://leafandground.com/

Or check out the soon-to-open farm shop at Horner Farm in Minehead, Somerset. https://www.facebook.com/hornerfarmexmoor/

It’s Coeliac Awareness Week and, with a prevalence of one in 100, coeliac disease is very common in the UK. But many other people may still be struggling with unexplained symptoms.

Coeliac disease (pronounced see-liac) is a serious illness where the body’s immune system attacks its own tissues when you eat gluten. This damaged the lining of the gut and means the body can’t properly absorb nutrients from food.

It’s important to say that Coeliac disease is not an allergy or food intolerance. And if a first degree family member (such as mother, father, sister or brother) has the condition then the chances of having it increase to one in ten from one in 100.

Coeliac disease has a wide range of symptoms whichrange from mild to severe and can include bloating, diarrhoea, nausea, wind, constipation, tiredness, mouth ulcers, sudden or unexpected weight loss (but not in all cases), and anaemia.

Once diagnosed, the only treatment for coeliac disease is a gluten free diet. Gluten is found in wheat, barley and rye. Some people are also sensitive to oats. Once gluten is removed from the diet, people generally start to feel much better.

We’re pleased that people can shop gluten-free at Easy Bean without compromising on taste.

We had a brilliant time at the weekend, meeting new faces and seeing old friends.

Thank you to Clive and Ellie (our dad & daughter team) for representing Easy Bean at Eat:Castle Cary on Saturday. It was wonderful.

And the weather held up! We were quite glad to be snug and warm for the bank Holiday downpours yesterday. Here’s to better weather and brighter days ahead.

Today is “Earth Day” and the theme this year is “Restore Our Earth.  People are being asked to look at how they can reduce their impact on the planet but, importantly, to think about how they might take action to repair fragile ecosystems.

Perhaps take the time this weekend to do a little recce of your local area and see which bits could do with some tic. Or join a campaign pressuring councils / governments to step up.

Talk to your friends and neighbours about their concerns and perhaps focus on the views of younger people.

Whatever your concern there are bound to be other people who share your worries.

Many raindrops make a mighty river!

We’re so pleased to welcome two new stockists, both from charming towns with a wealth of history.

Earthfare in Glastonbury - home of magic and mystery - is our chilled range.  https://earthfare.co.uk/about-us/

Meanwhile French & Day Delicatessen has just received a first order. The shop can be found in Ware, Hertfordshire, resting place - no pun intended, of the historic Great Bed of Ware! ttps://www.facebook.com/frenchandday/