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Foodie Heaven Christmas gift

You can book your foodies on to a New Wild Food Online Cooking Courses from Miles Irving, Forager for The World’s Top Chefs, on Learning with Experts.

Learning with Experts is embracing an anti-consumerism, and ‘back to nature’ sentiment this Christmas, by launching online courses with the world’s top forager and authority on wild foods, Miles Irving. These online courses make the perfect gift for foodies and aspiring chefs and can be gifted from today onward.

Irving has worked with some of the world’s top chefs and restaurants. These include Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck, Rene Redzepi, Magnus Nilsson and the Hix restaurants. He is a pioneer in the Wild Food Renaissance and has extensive knowledge of the unique flavours and stories of wild foods. Irving is also an internationally acclaimed public speaker and the author of ‘The Forager Handbook’ - hailed by many as ‘the forager’s bible’.

Learning with Experts has launched two new online courses taught by Irving. You can gift these courses today for Christmas gifts, and the classes start from March 2020 onwards.

A course at the ‘Expert’ level costs £109, and you will get feedback on your cooking and foraging from Miles and his team.

Foodies will watch videos, chat to classmates, discuss topics with Miles, and get feedback on your assignments (submitted with text, video and photos). For £29 you can still follow the course curriculum, with videos, notes, and compare notes with classmates too as you go through.

Elspeth Briscoe, Learning with Experts CEO, explains: “You’re taught in the Learning with Experts online classroom, with 20 other students. In your online class you’ll watch videos where Miles takes you on a journey of delights of wild foods and foraging.

"During the lessons Irving shares secrets of how top chefs are starting to cook with wild and foraged food, and the tastes and recipes they’re trying. He then sets you assignments for both cooking and foraging, based on what you’ve learnt during your lessons. If you choose the expert version of the course, Miles and his team will personally mark your assignments and give you feedback in the online classroom. A unique opportunity to be taught by a world expert in wild food and foraging, wherever you are in the world. We’re already seeing people gift these courses to their food loving relatives, as well as enthusiasts, aspiring and professional chefs signing up to these courses.”

During the first course, ‘Foraging’ Miles celebrates new yet ancient flavours, rediscovering the nutritional properties of wild plants and reconnecting with the land. Irving explains: “This vital link means we thrive, eating well and working with the wild ecology of places”. The course has four lessons in it with clear learning outcomes for each lesson.

Whilst examples used in this course are in Miles’s own food web, a habitat which happens to be in the UK, the principles of this course apply to foraging all over the world. You are encouraged to share your own environments and discussion on wild foods throughout the course, wherever you’re located.

During the second course, ‘Cooking with wild food’, Miles has teamed up with some of his favourite chefs and together they take you through the journey of foraging, cooking and tasting the following wild foods: Stalks and stems, Wild aromatics, Seaweed and Edible flowers

CEO Elspeth Briscoe continued: “The Learning with Experts campaign ‘Gift Learning Not Clutter’ is attracting attention this Christmas, especially for those who value education and experiential gifts over and above the over indulgence of collecting more goods or possessions that many people really don’t need. Miles Irving is known as a pioneer in the chef’s community, and we’re excited to be able to bring his expertise to a global audience through these online courses.”

www.learningwithexperts.com.

This is a video of a presentation by Miles:-

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Talking Bing the Rabbit and Talking Sula

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Bing is a smartly dressed pre-school bunny rabbit who gets into all sorts of adventures as he learns about the world around him.

And now parents, grandparents, older brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles can really please the little ones this Christmas, because they can buy them their very own talking Bing bunny rabbit.

This cute and cuddly Talking Bing Soft Toy is perfect for hugs as it’s made from super-soft textured fabric.  Talking Bing has over 15 fun phrases to delight and entertain fans such as  ‘Hi, I’m Bing! What’s your name?’  Simply press Bing’s button to hear him talk and giggle.  Bingsters will love to re-create their favourite Bing stories, listen to Bing talk and interact with him.

Bing is available from good toy retailers and from on line retailers, too for about £16.00, RRP.

And you can also buy his cute little friend, Talking Sula, for about the same price, too. She also appears on the programmes with Bing.

It's been noticed that some boys tend to prefer Bing and that some girls tend to prefer Sula.

So, why not buy Bing and Sula at the same time?

Bing and Sula are made by a British company called Golden Bear.

Golden Bear point out where you can buy them and their other products from here:- https://www.goldenbeartoys.com/pages/retailers.

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If you like Nibble Protein Bites, you'll absolutely adore their new Nibble Protein Bites seasonal Gingerbread bites.

It's based on a traditional recipe from Sweden and will help you get into the Christmas spirit, but they are more healthy than some other available snacks.

Sprinkled with chopped almonds they are lower in sugar (there's under 1 gram of sugar per nibble, so are a guilt-free treat.

There's a special blend of spices, ginger, cinnamon and cloves. Sugar is also included, but 30% less than other standard natural protein bars or balls.

There's 21% protein and less than 100 calories per bag, so they'll make an ideal stocking filler for the people who you are about.

They are made from a whole host of delicious and vital ingredients, including dried plum puree, slow digesting pea protein, spices and almonds.

They are free of gluten and are vegan friendly and cost £1.49 per pack. You can buy them from www.nibbleprotein.co.uk, from independent retailers and Amazon. Other flavours are available.

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Interplay's new Fuzzi Street range and Orangutwang game have each won a Made for Mums Toy Award!

Fuzzi Street won the Gold award in the prestigious Best Art/Craft Toy category. The range encourages children to decorate their very own Ice Cream Parlour, Pizzeria and Post Office, and each play set comes with a brand new fuzzikin animal to colour in. Like all Fuzzikins they are washable, so each set offers hours of creative fun!

Meanwhile Orangutwang, recently launched as part of the new Interplay Games range, won Silver in the Best Board Game for 3 Years + Category!

Already a hit in the USA, Orangutwang involves hanging fruit and jungle friends on the orangutan, but watch out! Once he's holding too much he'll spring up and send the fruit and friends flying... you just never know when!

Made for Mums Toy Awards

MadeForMums is the UK’s number 1 site for parenting product reviews, with an outstanding reputation for expert, honest review content, so a MadeForMums Toy Award is recognised by parents and retailers – and the national press – as a sign of a toy’s outstanding quality and play potential.

The winners were announced after 8 weeks of home-testing with more than 500 child and parent judges, several judging days involving influencer family judges with a combined YouTube following of 600,000, plus the wisdom of toy industry experts.

To learn about their amazing range of toys and games and to order them, please visit https://interplayuk.com/collections/interplay-games.

Winter Wonderland Set to Return To Manchester This Christmas

The UK’s biggest Christmas indoor Winter Wonderland, will return to Manchester on 6th December.

Following last year’s hugely successful event which saw over 85,000 people visit the Christmas festivities, Santa’s little helpers have worked with the event organisers to launch this year’s Winter Wonderland, promising it to be the best yet!

Winter Wonderland 2019 will see five amazing festive attractions including: A massive real ice rink, a wondrous Christmas circus, an incredible panto, a vast indoor funfair and of course, Santa Claus, too!

As well as all these attractions there will be plenty of food and drink available, catering for a wide range of requirements including vegan, vegetarian, gluten and lactose free options. Refreshments will also be available to get visitors into the festive spirit.

For parents of young children, there will be plenty of space to park any prams as well as a quiet breastfeeding area and baby changing facilities throughout the venue

Winter Funland event director, Andy Windmill, said: “Last years event was a phenomenal success and this year promises to be bigger, brighter and full of even more festive fun. We have pulled out all of the stops to ease queues for Santa, quicker service for food and of course, brought in even more exciting funfair rides.”

Families who have children who are on the Autism Spectrum will be pleased to learn the organisers have created a  special autism-friendly sensory experience as part of the Winter Funland which will be available exclusively for autistic children and their family to enjoy on Monday 9th December.

The Winter Funland will be closed to the general public on that day and transformed, making it a welcoming and exciting space for young people affected by autism. Not only will there will be fewer crowds around, but the volume of the attractions will be lowered, the lighting and flickering lights reduced and a special space to chill out if any aspect gets too overwhelming will also be available.

Last year’s event gave over £100,000 worth of tickets to local charities & underprivileged families and they'll do the same again in 2019!

Winter Funland is taking place at EventCity, opposite intu Trafford Centre and there are over 3,000 free car parking spaces. 

The doors will officially open to the public on 6th December and will remain open until 4th January 2020 with tickets available right now,

All-inclusive admission tickets are £23.50 per person and under 3’s go FREE. Fastpass tickets to visit Father Christmas at Santa’s Ghrotto are also available from the website here www.winterfunland.com.