Miss Nang Treats turned 6 yesterday. Visit https://www.instagram.com/missynang/  to see all the celebratory posts and the Live video.

What a journey it has been. Already four Food & Dinks awards including the most coveted Guild Of Fine Food star for a product launched only a year ago. We are not going to forget the many many printed media coverage including the Financial times, Wellbeing Magazine the Independent, the Daily Express AND Speciality Food magazine, as well as Confectionary magzine 2 well thought of industry magazines. See few articles below.

The Financial Times – Article in Financial times

The Independent – British Sandwich Week_ Five unusual sarnies to perk up your WFH lunch _ The Independent

Confectionary Magazine – Sweet Talk_ Hortense Julienne, Founder & CEO of Miss Nang Treats – IC

Forbes Online – Why Being A Jack Of All Trades Is Essential For Success

Daily express – Orange peels – From scraps..to scrumptious! – Kim Jones  

Miss Nang Treats is quirky, but has health & environment in mind for every product created. See enviroment related articles below:

What small businesses want from COP26 _ Enterprise Nation

Sustainable businesses_ the pros, cons and the future – The Vegan Review

Plastic free – Why plastic packaging persists_ A view from the food industry

This is reflected in the ingredients used in the production of every snack created. Where possible (often), the ingredients are harvested in the UK and contain zero chemicals or refining.

The packaging is an imitation plastic made with wood pulp and home compostable. Any jar can be returned to Miss Nang Treats against a coupon to use on your next online order.

As we celebrate our anniversary throughout  this month, the most popular snacks chosen during various tasting sessions will allp be sold at just £5.00 each.

Allowing some of you to discover the brand and  others to stash up for their Christmas stockings.

The snacks on offer can be seen here https://missnang.com/product-tag/iamsix/

These are reasons why you should take advantage of this £5.00 offer:

1. If you are making gift hampers, nuts, seeds and crackers are very practical because they last longer. Anything made in November will be best before 31st January.

2. If you are having a Christmas spread, you will already have a starting set and will be ahead in planning that part of your festive season.

3. You can stash them away for those people you never think of, who turn up unannounced. Shove a few packs in a gift bag with a card, et VOILA!

And because we are celebrating, every order over £30.00 will come with a gift, even the subscription boxes.

We hope you have enjoyed being part of thin incredible journey.

Do you have any question? email miss-nang@outlook.com, follow on twitter & Instagram @MissyNang.

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Cheaper energy tarif will save you hundreds of pounds, just trade it with some sleep.

Using night time energy tarif to do the most energy consuming activities might just be the best solution so far.

Forgive me if all the blogs are centered on food, but food is LIFE literally, food IS health, food is WEALTH… Without food, there is no health, without health, there is no work, no quality of life, no wealth!

When I was in full time work, my food used to bring the best smell in the office’s kitchen… Am not bragging I promise. My colleagues who had been queuing to get their meals at lunch time used to be envious as I sat pretty leisurely enjoying my seemingly long lunch hour. By being prepared, I enjoyed my full lunch time, ate a balance meal, save money and even went out for a walk post lunch! This led me to create the sauces and dips you now see sold here! SAVING money requires preparation. During the weekends, I used to prepare jars of sauces I would use during the week and that would save me money. How? I hear you ask. Preparing sauces during the weekend means that you are using weekend tariff (electricity & gas) to prepare your food. During the week end, you have the time to visit your local outdoors markets for great quality fresh fruits and vegetables. You can create sauces and chop others for the freezer. After using great energy at a cheaper rate (evening and weekend rates can be up to 2/3 cheaper) to prepare your sauces (which to be honest take the most effort) you can just boil rice, pasta, potatoes etc and mix in your sauces. Steamed broccoli topped beetroot chutney with a side of fried yellow plantain Your cooking time will be reduced by at least half and you’d be at the dinner table faster with a delightful aroma filling the room without you breaking a sweat. If you still work from an office, you can defrost your fresh veggies overnight, in the morning prepare your lunch bowl by mixing to the vegetables a dollop of your pre-made sauce, mix, add finely cut potato. At lunch time, while everyone goes out to queue and spend a fortune, your meal is ready in 10 minutes and you can enjoy your lunch time leisurely. HOW MISS NANG sauces can help you here? – One. You do not have to go shopping, chop the veggies or cook the sauces yourself. See one the early adopters Natasha, a busy business coach saying exactly that! Click here to watch the clip. – Two. The sauces are made fresh with great quality ingredients so you can really have that homemade (but cook by someone else feeling). Are you like me, do you sometimes crave food cooked by someone else? It tastes different right? – Three. You save time and energy costs because, even veggies bought frozen are made to sing by the sauces from the Kokwa & Mikki range… This is not a lie. All you have to do, is defrost the veggies (from £1), and add your dollop of sauce, a whole yellow plantain, ready in 15 minutes in the microwave. If you’ve never tried the sauces from the Kokwa & Mikki range please check them out here or some individual sauce and chutneys. There are 6 in total that can be used as cooking sauces, condiments and spreads… Hope you have found some elements of this message useful and will try implementing them. As you can see, living sustainably can save you some £££, it mostly takes planning and patience. One last thing… Cooking meat will use up a lot of your energy allowance….   Let me know what you think. Hortense Julienne

Vegetable mix – cost of living crisis

Living a bit more sustainably will actually save you some money!

Only mid-September and the nights are already drawing in… Since April, we’ve been told about the cost of living rising through winter so, many of us have been really apprehensive about the darker nights.

Given the hot/long  summer we’ve all had, we had even hopped that the warmer days would even last longer without us needing to put on the central heating… I am already using double bed covering to heat my feet. I really hope it is just a blip and that we will have a last hooray of heat before summer properly says goodbye.

Have you heard of the expression ‘zero waste’? It is what it says on the tin. But no one actually can live zero waste 100% of the time… on any diet…

Yes, zero waste is associated to sustainability, it is actually more attainable than the big wigs make it… Keep reading…

Take cooking a fresh meal for example: You can create a composte bin and lob in all your vegetable kitchen wastes.

Over the time, some of that vegetable waste will start growing again, giving you some unexpected root vegetables and herbs… (carrots, potatoes, spring onions, beetroot and celery are very known for easy sprouting).

Over a 3/6 months, if you find yourself to having too much compost, you can share it with friends (or locals)  who have allotments. They will accept compost in exchange for some food.

If you don’t know people with allotment, search your local facebook group for allotment and exchanges. Since COVID, people are al lot more open to accept and exchanges. So, dont be proud, go for what you need.

Look after the pennies, the pounds will look after themselves…

Other ways to use your kitchen cut offs is to replant them or just leave them in a bowl with a bit of water to grow again. Above a half cut cabbage was left on my balcony and started to grow again… This is is 3 week growth.

I recently placed a bunch of spring onion bottoms in a cup with a bit of water, it took 4 weeks, now I can cut off the green sprouts to add in my broth. But as more roots come out, i’ll plant them on my balcony. Some of them seem to be seeds carriers, so will see what those pouches produce.

Leek & celery growing new roots

Am doing the same with my celery  butts, but intend to plant these on the balcony when roots come out like on this left over leek. Caring for them this way will save you buying them often.

Do not throw away your sprouting potatoes: they are still edibles as long as they don’t turn green.
If they do turn green, they are poisonous and are better planted in soil to produce a handful of spuds in 3-6 months.

sprouting potatoes

growing celery butt

If you think you won’t have time to cook a bag of potatoes, boil them, cut them in wedges, add black pepper and some herbs, then freeze…. That’s your next batch of potato wedges on pizza night.

Bread! Do you know how much bread wasted in this country?!!! Millions of tons!

Freeze bread to avoid waste

When you buy bread, freeze it and just take what you need each day. You’ll never throw  bread again in your life. I do that… English bread isn’t exactly baguette so I eat it reluctantly and very slowly.

But in the event you can’t freeze it, chop it up, drizzle olive oil/rapeseed oil with sea salt and pepper… presto! Croutons for the next salad or soup.

Now if you’ve cooked too much food over this week end, what every it is, pack it in portions and place them in the freezer… remember, when you reheat them, that not everything can be heated in the microwave. Some are better in the oven, uncovered.

Hope you’ve found these useful.
For more follow Miss Nang Treats on Instagram.

To see my balcony, click here. 

And just in case you are wondering, my life is a continual experiment…

This is just one way,of tackling the cost of living, there is more to come… like, cooking in batches using cheaper electricity tarifs hours.

The cost of living will affect us all, but we do not need to feel powerless over it. Any small tips, we can discover, implement and share is a positive action that empowers us.

Let me know what you think if you have found this useful.

Written by Hortense, founder @Miss Nang Treats

One pot dinner with Sunflower & Mushroom cooking sauce

Is a plant-based diet healthier?

That’s the million dollar question.

Of itself plant-based diet are healthier  than the so called normal diet because usually the fats and proteins are better for you and multi-functional.

If you are someone who is unable to control your food intake, you might have some weight or skin issues if you abuse what you eat even on a plant-based diet.

It is well known that it you were to listen to every diet advice on earth you even stop drinking water, bottled or otherwise. You’ll always find someone to tell you what not good about what you choose to consume. BUT, it has been proven many times that reducing animal fats and derivatives from our diets lives us with a healthier body.

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theses all natural cashews are part of a subscription service by Miss Nang Treats

When it comes to plant-based, olive, or sunflower butters are still fats. Sugars in drinks are sill bad for you. What’s the solution? A modified behaviour, a plan and moderation. If you have a plant-based subscription box, you can tick all 3 boxes because you are forced to consume what arrives and have to wait until the next box comes.

Miss Nang Treats for example is specialised in nuts and seeds snacks. We all know that nuts and seeds have fat, if eaten in big quantities you will have the runs. This does not mean that nuts are bad for you.

In fact, they are one of the best food groups there is out there. I mentioned multi-functional earlier. Not only nuts are great sources of minerals and vitamins, they keep you fuller for longer, but also have buckets loads of protective properties.

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Did you know for example that many nuts outlook indicate which part of the body they are most affective for?

Walnut. It is shaped like a brain. Beside its content in antioxidants, Omega3 and raft of other vitamins, walnuts comes highly recommended for brain health and brain function.

Walnut with whiskey & clove

Brazil nuts are a bit shaped like thyroid. Aside from being one of the nuttiest nuts, they have the highest concentration of Selenium. This property, selenium is highly necessary for the good health of your thyroid.

Cashews, have you ever notice that they are shaped like kidneys?  They are the highest in copper and also magnesium amongst others

Yes, some nuts  have fats, but these are better fats that that found in animal. Yes they have calories, just like many cola drinks we are all fond of.

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But get this. For many years, vegans and vegetarians were laughed at for eating nuts in everything… well, guess what. They knew something then that the rest of the world is catch up to just now.

Nuts and seeds are complete foods on their own and can be used as meat replacements as they are full of protein.

As an individual, do you include nuts in your daily diet? Unless… of course you are allergic, it is high recommended to  include some on any diet or lifestyle.

By drip feeding your body with nuts and seeds, you not only nourish your body, but what happens on the inside starts showing on the outside… your skin, nails and hair start telling a different story; one of health.

Most people do not always remember to get their pound of nuts when doing their shopping. That’s why many will instead have a plant-based snacks subscription with nuts and seeds.

Such subscription guarantees that there is always nuts available at their place of residence or work place.

The great thing about nuts is, they can be eaten for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. They are versatile enough to be added in smoothies, salads, soups and even cakes…

So, to round this off, a plant-based diet is better than most as long as you prepare, plan and have some awareness of your level of consumption of some treats. The great thing about having a plant-based subscription, it that once the treats are gone, you have to be disciplined enough to wait for your next delivery, there by lessening your consumption.

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