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Eating and drinking well at this time is important to keeping your immune system ticking over. Here are some recipes and thoughts on how to boost your system.
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- WeCook: Free chef-led online WeCook-alongs and masterclasses for home cooks
- Chef My Kitchen: Chat with a chef, get a personal recipe + support the restaurant industry
- Drop75: Natural wine subscription club
- Observer: Easy bread recipes that can be made in an hour
- Borough Talks: Series of weekly Wednesday (13 May-3 June) talks from foodie favourites
- Guardian: One tin of chickpeas – 17 delicious ways to use it
- Farms to Feed Us: UK database with small-scale food producers supplying fresh food
- Elysia Home Delivery: Homemade ready-meals + groceries, delivered by bike across London
- Nigel Slater: Simple store-cupboard recipes for lockdown
- Karma Boxes: Fresh, surplus products that fight food waste + support local wholesalers
- First Choice: Fruit, veg + grocery boxes available for London delivery
- Starbucks: 9 DIY drinks recipes courtesy of Marie Claire
- The Kitchn: 10 things to bake when you don’t have flour
Lockdown Locals: Directory of indie local food + grocery businesses with delivery availability - DG Brownies: Homemade vegan brownies available for delivery (currently 15% off)
- Bon Appetit: 24 classic cocktails you need to know how to make
- Craft Beer Hour: Where to buy beer remotely
- Oddbox: How to make bread with beer
- Oddbox: How to re-grow 7 vegetables from scraps
- Eater: If you literally never cook, start here
- Soil Association: Making the most of your veg box
- Honey & Co: R + classes tutorials from the husband-and-wife team
- Borough Market: Borough Market’s live cooking classes every weekday at 13:00 BST
- Bread Ahead Bakery: London bakery online tutorials
- Wagamama: “Wok from home” tutorials for takeaway favourites
- Loaf & Larder: Online grocery store for essentials along with some very nice treats
- Pret: Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe
- Daily Stylist: Surprisingly delicious WW2 recipes that use only a few ingredients
- Tom Hunt: Chef cooking tutorials from new book Eating for Pleasure, People & Planet
- BBC Radio 4: Jay Rayner’s Kitchen Cabinet (Home Economics, lockdown edition)
- pebble: How to reduce waste, save money and eat like a king (or queen)
- Pasta Evangelists: “Pause for Pasta” Insta classes Wednesday-Friday at 12:00 (BST)
- Megan’s: New Insta weekly tutorials on “Work From Home” Wednesdays
- BBC: Roti recipe (with self-raising flour)
- Arket: Scandi downloadable cookbook with recipes for healthy + plant-based home cooking
- Smitten Kitchen: Recipes that lean heavily on pantry staples (rice, grains, beans + legumes)
- Vittles 3.4: The lowdown on your local polski sklep (with recipe)
- MyHungryValentine: London food+drinks directory for delivery+takeaway
- Rachel Roddy: Italian recipes for lockdown
- Delish: Instagram Kids+Parents cooking classes at 13:00 (EST) this week (30 Mar)
- Anna Jones: How to grow nice things to pick and eat (whatever size your garden is)
- New York Times: Can I Boost My Immune System?
- Guardian: How to boost your immune system to avoid colds and coronavirus
- Heidi Swanson: Immunity Boosting Soup
- Richard Bertinet: Easy bread (fougasse)
- Jo’s Kitchen Garden: Easy flatbread (no yeast)
- Theo Cooks With Kids: Live class on Mon + Weds 16:00 (UK)
- Boxxfresh: Online grocery service sourcing produce from independent farms + businesses
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