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DONATE SWEETS THIS CHRISTMAS

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Christmas for many is a time to eat drink and be merry but for some it’s a period of financial pressure and that’s where Torquay Food Aid (TFA) comes in. For local families and individuals in need, the team at TFA provide a food collection service every Wednesday between 1pm and 3pm; this festive season they’re asking the community to donate Christmas treats. “People stopped giving us Christmas treats and were just donating ‘normal’ food. We found we were having to buy the special treats ourselves,” TFA volunteer Lois Gill said. “That’s not what we collect money for. We still wanted to give them treats, so last year we had to buy the lollies and all sorts of things. People donating often think it’s better to just give us ordinary food. “We got probably 100 tins of baked beans and 100 of soup, far more than we can cope with. In winter time that’s fine, but at this time of year we’re specifically looking for treats as we expect to pack maybe 50/60 if not 80 bags for
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How Sweet It Is Makes Classic Candy Bursting with Childhood Nostalgia

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He'd just gotten laid off from a job selling insulated water bottles a few months after suffering a much harder loss his father, who'd long supported his culinary pursuits, had died. But his dad's advice to set out on his own helped him decide, within an hour of unemployment, to start his own business as a confectioner. Scraping together savings with his wife, Pilar, and money from family, the couple launched How Sweet It Is and debuted their products at their daughter's school bazaar. Vocker has a background as a pastry chef, but he believes his master's degree in the field was earned at an old-school candy company, where he learned how to make chocolate and caramel from scratch with nothing but a copper kettle, a stick and his senses. "It's all down to feel, timing, touch," Vocker says. "The smell, the look of the product—not necessarily a specific temperature." That's resulted in sweets bound to b
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Bake Your Thesis brings together sweets and scholarship

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Canada’s immigrant communities rendered in fondant on a cake; the experience of trauma depicted as a cinnamon bun: these are some of the confections that were part of the first Bake Your Thesis competition at Memorial University, where participants said the process of turning their research into an edible confection was a great new way to look at their work – as well as a welcome break from it. Kelly Piercey is pursuing a master’s in social work and works with young people. “The first time a young person disclosed to me sexual abuse or sexual exploitation, I felt very unprepared,” Ms. Piercey said. She worked her way through it, but imagined others had felt similarly;  her research now involves developing a training module on how to respond to disclosures from young people about sexual abuse and exploitation. Ms. Piercey represented that via a cinnamon bun. “A cinnamon bun has a very detailed recipe, and a recipe is very much like a training module,” she said. “You start wi
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Sweets & Succulents

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The first thing people might see when they walk into The Prickly Hippie is not the titular "prickly" cacti, but instead a bevy of soft sweets in the dessert case. # On a daily basis, it is filled with one of the shop's specialties—craft donuts. For instance, there is the Yabba Dabba Donut, which is coated in Fruity Pebbles and a fruit glaze, and the Psychedelic Donut is marbled in white chocolate ganache. In opening The Prickly Hippie's Ridgeland storefront, owner Jenni Sivils says she knew that she wanted to make donuts one of the focuses of the bakery side. # "I thought that there was a good space for having interesting donuts and other unique items," she says. # Now, the store is also known for its homemade Pop-Tarts, mini cakes and other creations, but originally, The Prickly Hippie business did not have a culinary element. # Sivils, a Eufaula, Ala., native, attended the University of Alabama, and then transferred to the Missi
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HOW TO GIVE UP SWEETS: 5 EFFECTIVE WAYS

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Everyone knows that large amounts of sugar and sweet harm the body. Everyone understands this, but I can not deny myself the pleasure to enjoy a scone or piece of cake. And if you come to visit, then how can we refuse to offer sweet foods? Harmful properties of sugar we have already said repeatedly. However, in passing today, we will pass this subject. It seems that candy is not bad, especially from their eating people feel much happier. But it is not. Sweet contains in its composition of fast carbs, which are quickly saturate the body. But this person does not receive any nutrients, despite the fact that experiencing joy. The fact is that this drastically increases the sugar level in the blood, increases production of insulin. In large quantities it can not consume the body, so the insulin goes in storage, creating a body fat. As the result of excessive consumption of sweets causes a number of health problems. For example, can result in a yeast infection. There are more
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