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Advent 2022 - Fast Tracking #4
 Today's Challenge: Fast from... using the dishwasher.When I thought about today's challenge in prospect, I thought the absence of recourse to the dishwasher might cramp my style in the kitchen big...
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Advent 2022 - Fast Tracking #5
Today's Challenge: Fast from... wheat.Going wheat-free is counter-intuitive for me - I bake wheat-based bread most days and it's a rare day indeed when I don't consume something made from wheat so...
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Advent 2022 - Fast Tracking #6
 Today's Challenge: Fast from... all out of season foods.Eating seasonally is more complicated for us in our globally interconnected world than it was in the past when it was a simple matter of...
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Advent 2022 - Fast Tracking #7
 Today's Challenge: Fast from... all imported foods.When I sat down to think about both what was off limits and what was permitted under the heading of today's challenge it was quite a sobering...
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Advent 2022 - Fast Tracking #8
 Today's Challenge: Fast from... all dairy products.A non-dairy day today. Dairy products normally make up quite a significant percentage of my diet, especially yoghurt but also milk, a certain amount...
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Advent 2022 - Fast Tracking #9
 Today's Challenge: Fast from... oils and fats.Quite a tough ask, this one. I don't generally eat a lot of high-fat foods or use a lot of fat in my cooking (though I do use quite a bit in my baking)...
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Advent 2022 - Fast Tracking #10
 Today's Challenge: Fast from... using the dishwasher.Another dishwasher-free day. It's also the Feast of St Nicholas so it was Stutenkerle for breakfast. Stutenkerle which are sometimes also referred...
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Advent 2022 - Fast Tracking #11
Today's Challenge: Fast from... one meal of your choosing out of your normal daily routine.I have to say I greeted today's challenge of simply skipping a meal as something of a relief. Not so much...
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Advent 2022 - Fast Tracking #12
 Today's Challenge: Fast from... using the oven.I use my oven a lot as a rule. I do a lot of baking in it and a lot of the things we often eat here spend a considerable amount of their time in it...
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Advent 2022- Fast Tracking #13
 Today's Challenge: Fast from... all animal products.Another vegan day today for which I've returned to what has become an old favourite since 2017 and my first £1-a-day food challenge, namely chilli...
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Advent 2022 - Fast Tracking #14
Today's Challenge: Fast from... all imported foods.I find the no-imported-food challenge one of the hardest to comply with - there are just so many imported everyday foods one takes for granted,...
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Advent 2022 - Fast Tracking #15
 Today's Challenge: Fast from... wheat.Wheat-free days are easier than I thought they would be. Not nearly as hard as the no-imported-food days, for example. Breakfast tea with unsweetened soya...
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Advent 2022 - Fast Tracking #16
 Today's Challenge: Fast from... using the oven.In the past, ovens were not universal bits of domestic kitchen kit. They have always been expensive in terms of the fuel they need to produce the...
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Advent 2022 - Fast Tracking #17
 Today's Challenge: Fast from... using the dishwasher.Today is the Feast of St Lucy. We don't celebrate that much here in the UK but in Sweden they make a big thing of it. It's a light-centred festival...
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Advent 2022 - Fast Tracking #18
  Today's Challenge: Fast from... sugar.Another sugar-free day today. The only time I really find the no-sugar regime difficult is afternoon tea-time. But I've found the multigrain seeded crackers make...
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Advent 2022- Fast Tracking #19
 Today's Challenge: Fast from... all animal products.Today has been another vegan day, the third so far. I'm beginning to run out of ideas that are part of my existing repertoire so I decided to branch...
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Advent 2022 - Fast Tracking #20
 Today's Challenge: Fast from... one meal of your choosing out of your normal daily routine.Good news - a day of respite from culinary juggling! And, as I was travelling to see my parents today, this...
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Advent 2022 - Fast Tracking #21
 Today's Challenge: Fast from... all highly processed foods.As a household we don't eat a great deal of highly processed food but as I said in my introductory post, virtually any foodstuff acquired in...
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Advent 2022 - Fast Tracking #22
 Today's Challenge: Fast from... using the oven.Another oven-free day. The scattering of oven-free days over Advent has definitely made me think ahead more strategically and double up bread-baking etc...
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Advent 2022 - Fast Tracking #23
 Today's Challenge: Fast from... all imported foods.Breakfastblack Tregothnan teagrape juice (pressed from our own grapes and frozen) morello cherries picked at the local PYO in July and...
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Advent 2022 - Fast Tracking #24
  Today's Challenge: Fast from... all dairy products.Today has come slightly unstuck from my planned no-dairy menu on account of other things going on and too much other stuff in the kitchen to juggle...
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Advent 2022 - Fast Tracking #25
Today's Challenge: Fast from... all animal products.This was meant to be effectively the last day of stringent abstinence in my 'Fast from... 'Advent challenges, although there are technically three...
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Advent 2022 - Fast Tracking #26
 Today's Challenge: Fast from... one meal of your choosing out of your normal daily routineToday I am back on track with my Advent challenge as skipping breakfast meant I could get on with other stuff...
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Advent 2022 - Fast Tracking #27
 Today's Challenge: Fast from... all out of season foods.For various practical historical reasons, I've often not been able to cook a traditional roast on Christmas Day and we've made a virtue out of...
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Advent 2022 - Fast Tracking #28
 Today's Challenge: Fast from... all highly processed foods.In many parts of Europe it is traditional to eat fish on Christmas Eve. Carp in Germany, Poland and elsewhere in Eastern Europe; salt cod in...
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