Alfresco Family
Our family's green outdoor adventures near and far
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Hi there and welcome to our site. We’re really excited you’re here. We’re very much a work in progress but please take a look around. Head to the Introducing us page to find out a little more about us.
On the Environment page you’ll find the ways in which we are trying to live greener from our 52 week eco-exchange challenge to guerrilla gardening. We truly believe that small changes make big differences.
The Vegan Recipe Corner is a new part of our little venture due to demand from our readers. Here you’ll find family friendly vegan recipes. There are some ideas of nutritious meals you can make whilst camping to crispy cake recipes you can makes with your little ones to some of our favourite dinners.
The Outdoors page covers our family exploration outdoors. It will include our fun activities local to our home in the Ribble Valley in the North West of England to further afield.
Lastly you’ll find our latest blogs and articles on the Latest page.
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Introducing us
Hi there… If you’re reading this then we’ve already had some success in our aim to engage with a community of families, travellers, outdoor enthusiasts, world lovers, life lovers and all round adventurers just like us. We are a family of three- Katey, Rick…
Anytime 3 Bean Salad
This is a simple 3 bean salad recipe which can be kept in the fridge for a few days. It can be constantly nibbled at or used as a salad as part of a full dinner. It’s quick, cheap, tasty and super healthy. Ingredients…
Eco-Exchange Week 14
Microbeads to plastic free products This week we look at microbeads, something which is in a lot of products we use every day, products which end up washed down the sink and into our water systems. I’ll start with a definition: “Microbeads are manufactured…
Eco-Exchange Week 13
Regular bulbs to LED bulbs When considering this week’s topic I thought, “I’m pretty sure I already have energy saving light bulbs.” I then had a look around the house to confirm. Yes some of the bulbs are LED but actually there’s a few…
Eco-Exchange Week 12
New household products to recycled products Whilst making a journey towards greener living we’ve found that we reflect on everything we buy. From picking up loose vegetable rather than plastic ones to changing the products we use which you can see across previous articles….
Eco-Exchange week 11
Long showers to timed showers An average shower uses 7.75 litres per minute with power showers using 17 litres per minute. According to waterwise the average shower is about 8 minutes. This is about accurate for us. When I thought about it I realised…
Coconut Porridge
A nice simple, nutritious and delicious breakfast recipe. This makes 4 huge portions if you’re greedy like us or 6-8 normal sized bowl fulls. We make a batch to last a couple of days. It reheats fine in the microwave. Ingredients: 150g porridge oats…
Eco-exchange Week 10
Careless travelling to careful travelling As the holiday season approaches this week we’re looking at ways you can travel more mindfully of the environment. This is a vast topic so we’ve made it simple; here’s our ten tips for reducing your impact of the…
Eco-exchange Week 9
Shop bought to home grown After last week’s stat filled article we’ve decided to keep it short and sweet. With everything that has happened this week we want to share with you something light hearted that you can do together as a family. It’s lovely…
Eco-Exchange Week 8
Meat to Meat Free In honour of vegetarian week we’d like to delve into the reasons as to why one should consider reducing their meat intake, or stop all together. “A meat-eater’s diet requires 17 times more land, 14 times more water and 10…
Eco-Exchange Challenge: Week 7
Plastic bottles to reusable bottles This week we’re going back to the basics of environmentalism. We all know that plastic is bad for the environment from drilling of oil to plastic production to and end product that doesn’t biodegrade for hundreds of years. We…
Outdoors
Here you’ll find our stories about our outdoor adventures. We enjoy hiking, pottering and playing in the outdoors. You’ll find lots of pictures within our blogs of the places to go- our aim is to share the beauty of the world and hopefully inspire…
Eco-Exchange Week 14
Microbeads to plastic free products This week we look at microbeads, something which is in a lot of products we use every day, products which end up washed down the sink and into our water systems. I’ll start with a definition: “Microbeads are manufactured…
Eco-Exchange Week 13
Regular bulbs to LED bulbs When considering this week’s topic I thought, “I’m pretty sure I already have energy saving light bulbs.” I then had a look around the house to confirm. Yes some of the bulbs are LED but actually there’s a few…
Eco-Exchange Week 12
New household products to recycled products Whilst making a journey towards greener living we’ve found that we reflect on everything we buy. From picking up loose vegetable rather than plastic ones to changing the products we use which you can see across previous articles….
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