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How to Cook Chickpeas

What are Chickpeas?

Chickpeas are a creamy-coloured, buttery and nutty-flavoured pulse, and may also be known as garbanzo beans. They are one of the world’s oldest cultivated legumes. They originate from the Middle East and grow best in a tropical climate. Read on to discover how to cook chickpeas.

Plastic-Free Organic Fruit & Vegetables for Your 5 a Day

Buying plastic-free fruit and vegetables doesn’t need to be boring!
All year round we offer the staples like potatoes, carrots and onions but we also stock more interesting, seasonal varieties, like rainbow carrots, Jersey royal potatoes and red cabbage.

Blue Planet Live warns about the dangers of plastic

As you were watching Blue Planet Live this week, you might be thinking about minimizing your plastic usage, to prevent plastic pollution of our oceans.

Blue Planet Live: Secrets that lurk in the deep

As the BBC’s Blue Planet Live continues, the Realplasticfree.com team provides a summary about the secrets that lurk in the deep blue, and how human impact is changing the health of our oceans. We also highlight some of the novel technologies that have been featured and are helping our precious marine life.

Discover the marine stars of Blue Planet Live

Two years since Blue Planet II, never has there been more attention focused on our marine wildlife. There has never been so much research into our oceans as is taking place right now. Now, a few fishy tales are being shared as the Realplasticfree.com team keenly watched to discover the marine stars of Blue Planet Live on Episode 1!

Blue Planet Live on the Health of our Oceans

After the success of Sir David Attenborough’s Blue Planet II, which explored life underwater in our vast oceans, the BBC is dedicating this week to Blue Planet Live, a short series of four episodes that further celebrate marine life and explore the health of our oceans.