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• Goodbye beans on toast as UK families turn to recipe kits

  16-03-2019 15:00
  Subscription dinner boom puts five million meals a month on the tableCaroline Kennedy says she can’t remember life before meal kits. The weekly shop used to be a drag, and she would buy the same food – a lot of it unhealthy and much of it routinely thrown in the bin.Now she jumps online, clicks her favourite dishes and waits for a box of fresh, measured ingredients to be delivered. Continue reading...
  
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• Toy market not much fun for UK retailers

  16-03-2019 12:00
  Sector under pressure from new competitors and changes in demand for games
  
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• Dispute brewing as craft beer makers mull pending tax reform

  16-03-2019 09:00
  Normally fraternal world of microbreweries in acrimonious split over tax breaksTrouble is brewing in the normally convivial world of beer making, with an unseemly fracas developing over pending reform of the tax breaks that have fuelled the huge growth in the number of small brewers.Anyone enjoying the wide array of lagers, ales, stouts and porters at this weekend’s bustling BeerX exhibition in Liverpool, organised by trade body the Society of Independent Brewers (Siba), could raise a glas
  
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• Banana blossom: the next vegan food star with the texture of fish

  16-03-2019 07:00
  Sainsbury’s is to include the flower, which hails from south-east Asia, in its ready mealsFollowing on from beetroot burgers and jackfruit curries, the next star of the vegan “meat” world hails from the gardens of south-east Asia and looks somewhat like an artichoke.Banana blossom, also known as a “banana heart”, is a fleshy, purple-skinned flower, shaped like a tear, which grows at the end of a banana fruit cluster. Traditionally used in south-east Asian and Indian
  
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• Kondo-mania makes charity shops essential destinations

  16-03-2019 01:00
  The decluttering boom means there are treasures lurking in your local bargain bin
  
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