50 shades of Green with Lauren Derrett

This weeks podcast is a lively and fun chat with plenty of good practical tips.Jinty and Lou talk to the wonderful Lauren Derrett, founder of the re-usable planet friendly period pads, Wear’em Out who shares her thoughts and advises on how we can change some of our habits to become more eco friendly. We learn how Lauren started Wear’em Out and why we need to consider our sanitary products. She is a mum of 4, and describes herself as not a full on eco-warrior but eco-curious and is aware of her responsibility to the environment. Lauren started her company Wear’em Out in 2019 and the first physical product was launched in January 2020 just before the global pandemic hit. We hear how Lauren has changed the way we think about reusable sanitary wear and why we should all be more eco-curious. She also shares her 3 eco tips for life.It was Mental Health Awareness last week, which got Jinty thinking about her Aunt Ann that had suffered from Anorexia Nervosa during WWll. Jinty was curious as this is often seen as a ‘modern’ disease so she did some research into the historical thoughts and treatments of this misunderstood illness and found some shocking medical methods that were recommended and carried out around the time The results will sadly shock everyone. The Book Collective, get ready to read Three Women by Lisa Taddeo and from the prologue and the eight years it took Lisa Taddeo to write this book about three women’s lives on sex and desire, the girls read out some thought provoking paragraphs.The Food Collective are on their ‘No bake’ month with a indulgent yet healthy recipe from Deliciously Ella and we learn the health benefits of Cacao.Also we are preparing for the Wine Collective with this months choice of wines from Lou an organic Primivito wine from Tesco’s, Casa Roscoli and Jinty has chosen a Seedlip Garden 108 as this month’s non alcoholic alternative, which needs a mixer, Jinty prefers Tonic or Ginger beer but you can choose your favourite mixer to go with it.And finally Lou gets a WI (weekly Invite) from a past guest, will she accept?We are also entered in RODE best podcast competition and can to win podcast recording equipment and would love you to vote for us by clicking on this link, thank you. https://www.myrodecast.com/Lauren’s Wearemout padshttps://wearemout.co.uk/https://instagram.com/wearemoutpads?igshid=3hmitlxhqayg Instagram Wine collectiveRed winehttps://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/301745706?preservedReferrer=https://www.google.co.ukSeedlip Garden 108https://www.hollandandbarrett.com/shop/product/seedlip-non-alcoholic-garden-108-60034756Chocolate truffleshttps://www.instagram.com/p/CMCUoYBHr74/?igshid=12wzvao4w26psmakes 12 Truffles200g dark chocolate 2 tbsp maple syrup5 tbsp thick top of can of coconut milk (or coconut cream)3 tbsp cacao powderPut dark chocolate in a pan over a low heat until melted, Add coconut , maple syrup and cacao powderMix well until it is thick and smoothRemove from heat and let cool a little before placing in the fridge for half an hourOnce hard enough to shape scatter some cacao on a plate and scoop out enough mixture to roll in to a small ball then roll in cacaoPop in the fridgeLet setEatYum--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/womenkindcollectivepodcast/message

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