Profile: Paul

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Paul Richardson
Age: 33

Paul posted these 31 comments:

13 March

Asyra Pro Food Intolerance Test – My Experience and Results

Hi AH, What I've put on here is all of the information that I was given, so yes for me, it was the full report. I will be interested if you get anything else. I wasn't given any drops. The report does suggest that I am deficient in some vitamins, but it doesn’t make any recommendations as to which foods or vitamins I should be consuming to balance this. The practitioner didn’t suggest anything either, which is bad because I would have bought them from his shop – so it would have been an easy sale! I haven't tried fully cutting anything out yet, but I have certainly cut back on the things that it has highlighted and I now mainly drink pineapple juice (as well as water) when I go out, because the reports show that I have some trouble digesting foods such as pasta – and pineapple juice helps with this. One easy way to help me cut down is to update my personal diet settings in my GetMeCooking user profile, to list all of the foods that I am not supposed to eat. Then I only get shown recipes that are okay for me to eat :-) I think one 'problem' I have with the Asyra test is that because I haven’t got any real, distinct, notable issues (e.g. IBS, high blood pressure, high/low sugar levels), I can’t really tell if modifying my diet has any real positive consequences for me, unless I have several tests over a long period of time (e.g. one every 2 months for a year). If an ASRA test becomes available again (at a different place from where I had it before – so there is no history of my results), I might go for it, just so I can compare the results.

02 March

My Patients Depend on me to Buy Meat Online

I agree that consumers should shop around for meat - and doing it online is so easy now. Plus it gives better choice. Companies I have personally used so far include: Abel and Cole Waitrose Westin Gourmet

01 February

Asyra Pro Food Intolerance Test – My Experience and Results

I haven't had any follow-up sessions - I only went to it the first time because it was discounted and I was curious. For the time spent with the consultant, I though £59 was a bit steep and I would have been very upset if I had paid the full price of £195. It sounds like you spent a lot more time with the consultant than I did - and you didn't get an intolerance test! Why was that? The intolerance test took less than a minute for me. I didn't get scanned by a laser, or have any drops. It would be interesting to see how your results compare to mine :-) I don't know if the Asyra Pro test is good or not - and I haven't found any conclusive evidence on the Internet either way. That's partly why I wrote this article - I'm hoping that someone independent will come along and give me evidence to say if it's scientifically proven or not.

10 November

GetMeCooking Recipe Template plugin for WordPress version 1.06 is now available

Hi Paula, I'm sorry you are having difficulties. If you are missing the 'Recipes' section, it is likely that you have another plugin installed that is conflicting with ours. Please can you e-mail us a screenshot to show which plugins you are using, then I will have a look. Our e-mail address is at the top of http://www.getmecooking.com/contact Thanks.

06 November

Why are Search Engines being slow to roll out their ‘Recipe Search’ functionality?

Yes, both our website and our WordPress plugin use the Schema format. I see that you are a WordPress designer. If you have any recipe themes we will be happy to promote them on this site http://www.getmecooking.com/blog/want-us-to-showcase-your-wordpress-themes

10 October

A review of the Ludlow Food Festival 2011 – Britain’s longest running food festival

Thanks Northern Food Lover, I'll read up on those and might pay them a visit!

04 October

Russian Brunch Club – I’ve just had my first taste of Ukrainian food

No problem - I'm glad I timed it just in time for your wonderful commentary :-)

25 September

A review of the Ludlow Food Festival 2011 – Britain’s longest running food festival

My parents saw the Nicholas Crane program on Ludlow and visited it because of that. While there they saw advertisements for the Food Festival, then they told me about it! A few weeks later, I was there :-) There is a nice clip of the program here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00jdzc3

18 September

06 September

Food Blogger Connect 2011 - presenting is fun!

If you freeze-frame at 3:00 you will see me doing my awesome presentation ;-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVjXns5419s I'm also a bit before that and right at the end :-)

26 August

Food Blogger Connect 2011 - presenting is fun!

No problem, it was great to be there and to meet you! BTW, if you complete your profile on here, your site will be added to our Food Blog Directory http://www.getmecooking.com/blog-directory ;-) Thanks!

14 July

Step 7: Set up social sharing (Internet word of mouth)

Hi Francesca, What you might want to do is create a Facebook page for your blog - as opposed to using your personal Facebook page. Learn about Facebook pages here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/learn.php Then you can create a Facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php When you create the page, it will remain hidden from everyone except for yourself until you 'publish' it. You can in fact create a page and never publish it - i.e. to reserve the name. Linking your blog will not cause content to be automatically posted onto your Facebook page. BloggerPlugins.org has some plugins that you might be interested in. For example: - Facebook send button for Blogger: http://www.bloggerplugins.org/2011/05/facebook-send-button-for-blogger.html - Facebook like fan box for Blogger: http://www.bloggerplugins.org/2011/01/facebook-like-fan-box-for-blogger.html You are right that your blog and your Facebook page should not be linked. They should be treated separately and used for different purposes. Let us know how you get on!

11 July

Chocolate banana fools

Yes, maybe slices would look better than cubes. Although the texture was quite good :-)

12 June

Review of Taste Lebanon - A Culinary Journey Across Lebanon

Reading Aoife's review of Nifal Rayess's cheese factory (http://www.thedailyspud.com/2011/05/19/apricot-jam-lebanon-rayess-dairy/) brings back some good memories of the cheese shop and factory that I mentioned above (Tuesday 28th September)!

07 February

Food Blogger Connect – Potluck Cooking Event

Hi Arthi, I'm glad you both liked it, especially as it was my first time cooking for a foodie event :-) I liked your chickpea curry dish, in fact I remember having seconds of that - yum! See you again soon!

29 January

Plain omelette

For a more healthy option, you can use just 1 egg yolk and 3 egg whites.

23 January

Review of Taste Lebanon - A Culinary Journey Across Lebanon

Hi Kamel, The pictures on the Al Bohsali Sweets website look amazing. If I visit Beirut again I will definitely have to visit them! :-) Thanks for the tip!

13 December

Food Blogger Connect – Potluck Cooking Event

Hey Katrina, Haha, well I thought I should do a trial run of my dish before presenting it to a room full of food bloggers ;-) It was good to meet you and I look forward to bumping into you at the next event!

06 December

Food Blogger Connect – Potluck Cooking Event

Hi Sneige, it was great to meet you there. I'm sure I'll see you at another event! :-)

13 November

Review of Taste Lebanon - A Culinary Journey Across Lebanon

Martin - it was soooo good and very different to how I thought Lebanon would be! Raffi - yes it was Seza! A wonderful restaurant. BritinBeirut - Thank you! It is good to get confirmation from a Brit living in Beirut - i.e. I wasn't imagining it being that bad lol.

03 October

A culinary tour of lebanon

I've just got back from this tour and all I will say for now is "WOW". I am tired and exhausted (both in good ways) right now, so I'm going to take some time to rest and recover, then write up and post a full report later this week.

26 May

11 April

Apple iPad - take your recipes into the kitchen

Let us know how you end up using it in the kitchen! Also, feel free to send us any action shots (iPad in your kitchen, displaying a recipe from this site) that we can post here :-)

13 December

12 December

Review of food bloggers connect, London, November 2009

I agree, things did get a bit rushed, but it was great fun. FBC10 - I'll be there! :-)

29 November

Review of food bloggers connect, London, November 2009

Aoife - I'll see you there! :-) Good to meet you too Carly. I like how you review restaurants. I critique them all the time with my friends but don't write about them - mainly because there aren't that many decent restaurants in Milton Keynes and I don't want to get banned lol.

29 November

15 November

Scrambled eggs

I liked this. I didn't used to add milk, but the milk made it more airy and fluffy.

15 November

Bread and butter pudding

The recipe looked easy, so I tried it myself. Then I found out that as well as being easy to make, it was also very tasty! I might try it again with whole-grain bread and see how that turns out.

14 November

Chocolate chip muffins

These were really easy to make! I also added banana pieces which was nice.

20 August

When was the last time you tried a different supermarket?

There are 2 large superstores that are convenient for me - one near my office (Sainsbury's) and another near my house (Tesco). I prefer the one near my office because they seem to have a better selection of food. Plus they have more check-out counters so the service is faster.