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Home-poppin'
Popcorn Kitchen expands its seasonal offer with three new themed HomePoppin'
kits and an ultimate advent calendar offering. These gifting offers
have a 'sumptuous' seasonal twist. Each filled-to-brimming bottle include a
Halloween Special (complete with spooky electric orange chocolate buttons),
Christmas Sprouts (of a sweet milk chocolate) and timeless White Chocolate
Jazzies (a nostalgic pocket money treat from yesteryear).
As with Popcorn Kitchen's original Home-Poppin' bottles (£12.99), the gift's
essence is creating top notch Home-Poppin' kits for parents and children to
create a perfect movie night treat. Each kit is rammed full of best-in-class
mushroom popcorn kernels, the height of sweet popcorn sophistication, a
generous smattering of Belgian chocolate chips, the all-important seasonal
topping and foolproof preparation instructions.
Popcorn Kitchen has launched a 12 days of Christmas Gift House (£26.99)
containing whole packs of moreish popcorn heaven…. Each Gift House is
jam-packed with eight distinct Popcorn Kitchen flavours including: Salted
Caramel; White Choc Raspberry; Chocolate Orange; Cherry Bakewell;
Chocolate Brownies; Cheddar Cheese; Lemon Drizzle; Mint Chocolate.
www.popcornkitchen.co.uk
Milking it
Save your wallet and your waistline with home-made, plant-based milk from
Milky Plant. The trend for plant-based milk continues, with one in three Brits
choosing plant based alternatives to dairy. Milky Plant is a new appliance
which makes plant-based milk at home from nuts, seeds, cereals and water.
Simply add the chosen ingredient to the blender, fill the water tank and within
three minutes a litre of plant based milk is produced. This is an even healthier
alternative to supermarket bought milks which contain preservatives,
emulsifiers, seed oils and gums. Making plant based milk at home saves cash at
30-90% per serving compared to buying it ready made.
The Milky Plant machine costs £290. It takes around 180 uses to recoup the
costs of the machine, depending which ingredients are used to make the milk.
Creating milk at home also reduces the volume of tetra pak containers ending
up in landfill, almost 300k per year. If they were placed end to end the line
would stretch from central London to Milton Keynes.
Nadina Grigoras, founder of Milky Plant, commented: "A few years ago I
was diagnosed with high cholesterol and wanted to make healthy changes to
my diet. I quickly realised that supermarket bought plant-based milks aren't
as natural or healthy as they claimed to be as they are high in saturated fat,
additives and preservatives. The only way of making plant-based milk at home
was very messy and time intensive so I set about creating my own appliance to
take the hard work out. I love adding maple syrup or dates along with my nuts
or seeds to add natural sweetness to the milks and there are so many other
recipes and ways to drink Milky Plant milk, the possibilities are endless."
www.milkyplant.com