What’s really on your Christmas menu?

 
With the festive season upon us many of us are already eyeing up the Christmas menus in anticipation – but how much is your choice influenced by descriptions that may not be all they seem?

The No Nonsense Christmas Menu

STARTERS
Organic Broccoli and Stilton Soup
There are detailed standards which must be adhered before the description ‘organic’ can [...]

Should we worry about ‘out of date’ food?

How much do we really know and understand about the dates given on our foods that we buy from supermarkets, grocers, butchers and the like? Apparently not a lot if the high food poisoning figures for the population are looked at. Is this due to us not understanding the meaning of the dates or how [...]

Hospital Food

Check out Cirencester Community Hospital and its brand new restaurant. They are serving some really tasty, freshly prepared food to staff, patients and visitors. Its an amazing new premises with a well motivated kitchen brigade… and it’s open to the public.
I always had a perception about hospital food but when I see the work at [...]

June 09 – Green Vision

During Recycle Week, 22nd to 28th June, Gloucestershire Trading Standards Service virtual interactive VISION food hall introduced a host of useful recycling messages online.
VISION (Virtual Interactive Shopping Information Online) is a web-based interactive food toolkit to help consumers make more informed choices about the food they eat. The centrepiece of the site is an interactive [...]

Apr 09 – Do you want to count calories when you eat out?

The Food Standards Agency has announced that eighteen major catering companies, including many high street names, are to introduce calorie information on their menus for the first time.
These include workplace caterers, sit-down and quick-service restaurants, theme parks and leisure attractions, pub restaurants, cafes and sandwich chains.
Each company has agreed to:

display calorie information for most food [...]

Mar 09 – Local celebs take up the VISION challenge!

See Rob Rees’s comments below on the food diaries of local celebs and members of our media team.
Here at Vision we understand that all the good intentions of  those New Year resolutions are long gone, but with spring now just around the corner you may have renewed your promise to yourself to eat more healthily [...]