This Saturday is WWF's Earth Hour, when hundreds of millions of people, businesses and retired wrestlers around the world will be turning off their lights at 8.30pm to show their support for the planet. So whether you fancy a nice moonlit walk, a bit of dancing in the dark or a candlelit meal with friends, just make sure you switch off the lights and any other electrical items you can do without (perhaps not the freezer) at 8.30pm sharp. And hopefully while the lights are off, it will get us all thinking about what we can do beyond the hour to help protect this brilliant world we live in.
Back in 2009, changes at our factory meant that our little smoothie bottle had to go from 17g to 23g. Our packaging team worked hard to get the weight down to 20g in 2010, but getting back to 17g proved really difficult (it’s always the last few grams that are the hardest to shift).
So now, we're happy to announce that we’ve finally cracked it, and after a strict January detox and countless lunges and squats, our little bottle is back down to 17g and looking great. We're always looking for way to reduce the environmental impact of our packaging, and lightweighting is one of the best ways we can do this. By stripping 15% off the weight of this bottle, we’ll save around 300 tonnes of carbon in 2012. Nice work Team Packaging.
Exciting news. Our friends at the Department of Time are offering an unlimited number of our lucky drinkers the chance to win a free day tomorrow*. That's right — one whole day, absolutely free.
All you have to do to take us up on this once-in-every-4-years offer is let us know what you plan to do with it. So don't delay, tell us what you'll be getting up to below and extend your year by one whole day. We'll pick the best, then to claim your prize just wake up as normal on Wednesday 29th February and go out and do something you wouldn't normally do. Something fun and a little bit reckless like eating breakfast at the nice organic cafe down the road, or having a full body massage and a mani-pedi. Your working week will move seamlessly from Tuesday to Thursday, without anyone noticing you didn’t show up on Wednesday.
It may sound too good to be true but there's no catch. Promise.
*Caribbean holiday not included. Only one prize per person. The free day must be claimed on Wednesday 29th of February. Prize is not transferable and no cash alternative will be offered. No household chores or criminal activity are to be undertaken on the free day. innocent accept no responsibility for employees failing to turn up for work.
It’s time to play the music, it’s time to light the lights….
We’re super excited here in Fruit Towers. The Muppets are back. The Muppets hits Irish cinemas on the 10th February 2012 and we’ve got family tickets to give away to the preview screenings. They take place in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway & Belfast on Sunday 5th February at 11am.
On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world's biggest Muppet fan, and his friends Gary (Jason Segel) and Mary (Amy Adams) from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) to raze the Muppet Theater and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets' former stomping grounds. To stage The Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever and raise the $10 million needed to save the theater, Walter, Mary and Gary help Kermit reunite the Muppets, who have all gone their separate ways: Fozzie now performs with a Reno casino tribute band called the Moopets, Miss Piggy is a plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, Animal is in a Santa Barbara clinic for anger management, and Gonzo is a high-powered plumbing magnate. With secret, signature, celebrity cameos.
We’ve been fighting over our favourite Muppets here in Fruit Towers. Ali loves Miss Piggy, Tim’s a Fozzie Bear man, Helen chose Animal (she likes beards), Keith voted for Beaker and Brendan adores the Swedish Chef.
To win a family pass to a preview screening of The Muppets, tell us your favourite Muppet and where you’d like to see the movie (Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway or Belfast).
Congratulations to all our lucky winners who get tickets to the preview screening of The Muppets this Sunday 5th February.
To celebrate the launch of our new smoothie carton sizes we had a competition (see below) to give away a hamper full of (you guessed it) smoothies.
We had a lot of entries and a lot of correct answers. We really must make our questions a little trickier. The correct answer is "Strawberries and Bananas".
The lucky winner is Emer Breen.
Thanks to everyone who entered and stay tuned as we'll have another competition soon.
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There's no better way to celebrate the launch of our new smoothie carton sizes than...you've guessed it, giving away some smoothie cartons. We've a smoothie hamper up for grabs for one lucky reader. How do I win, you might be asking. Well, just post a comment below with your answer to the following (pretty easy) question and we'll announce the winner next week.
Question: What smoothie recipe made an appearance in last Mondays blog post?
To celebrate the launch of our new book called "Hungry? The innocent recipe book for filling your family with good stuff",we announced a competition on Monday to give away 5 copies. Thanks to everybody who entered and answered the question - "What's your best parent trick to get kids eating fruit and veg?"
We could only pick 5 winners though. They are (drum please)....
Monica Duffy - "Get the kids to help you prepare the fruit/veg, just careful with the knives"
Sorcha King - "I think encouraging the children to grow the fruit and vegetables themselves, pick out the seed, sow them, take care if them and then et the fruit or vegetables when they are ready. Works great for getting adults to try new things too"
Roisin Stapleton - "Chop the vegetables they dont like up really small and then cover it in something they do like, I cover whatever they don't like in cheese and bake the cheese in the oven until golden brown, works every time"
Jaki - "Decorating pizzas with veg to make funny faces and pictures!"
Beatrise T - "Presentation is the key! Kids are more likely to eat their veggies if they are presented in fun shapes. Another thing that works is re-naming (for example broccoli could be re-named as 'giant's trees') or even implying superhero powers :) I don't have kids myself yet but this really worked for me. My mum told me that I will grow taller if I'll eat a lot of 'giant's trees'.. and I didn't want to be short :)"
We'll be in touch shortly.
Thanks again to everyone who entered. You can see previews of the book here if you're interested in picking up a copy yourself.
At the beginning of last year, innocent asked lots of people if they thought it would be a good idea to write a recipe book to feed families with good stuff (having written not one but two smoothie recipe books already).
Hundreds of mums and dads got in touch to say they thought it'd be a very good idea.
So here it is...
A guide to healthy, tasty, no fuss food that the whole family can enjoy (and that don't take ages to make)
It's filled with over 100 delicious, simple, healthy recipes (from 2 minute breakfasts to proper Sunday lunches) and over 85% of the recipes in the book contain at least 1 of your 5-a-day.
There are loads of tips and ideas for getting everyone involved in making, cooking and eating. We've even picked out the bits kids can do in a rather fetching grey to make it even easier.
And there's as loads of other stuff for kids to do, make and help out with to get them involved and excited about food.
Or just keep them entertained while you're waiting for bread to bake or just need something to do on a rainy Thursday.
In other words, a book that makes it easy to get good stuff into your family. Without having to spend hours labouring over the stove, making different meals for everyone or faffing about with miniature sushi.
So to celebrate the launch of this very fine book, we're giving away 5 copies away to the 5 people who can best answer the following question. What's your best parent trick to get kids eating fruit and veg? Post your answer in the comments below.
Well, we're back to the regular ol' five day week and two day weekend. Not so bad when you remember summer is almost here and it's only 4 Mondays away until the June Bank Holiday. But that seems like ages away, so last Friday, we ran a competition to give away a smoothie hamper to make up for the return of the two day weekend.
The answer to the competition question, "what's the name of our latest seasonal smoothie" was of course lemons, honey and ginger. We had lots entries but we could only pick one lucky winner. Drum roll please. The lucky winner of the smoothie hamper is Claire Ryan.
Thanks so much to everyone else who entered and stay tuned to our facebook wall for the next competition
Recently we've especially loved Fridays since they've been followed by bank holiday Mondays (we really think there should be more). But alas, we're back to the regular ol' two day weekend. To make up for this, we've decided to brighten up somebody's two day weekend with a smoothie hamper. How do I win you might be asking? Well all you have to do is answer this question in the comments below and we'll pick the winner and annouce the name on Monday.
Question - What's the name of our latest seasonal smoothie?
At 8.30pm this Saturday it is global earth hour, where people all over the world will be turning off their lights and pledging their support for the planet. This won't be a problem at all for Delia, who told us some time ago how she's helping tackle climate change. Please take care if trying this at home though, Delia does eat a lot of carrots. It's probably also best to keep your eyes open.
Earth Hour started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia when 2.2 million individuals and more than 2,000 businesses turned their lights off to take a stand against climate change. Earth Hour 2010 was the biggest yet, with a record 128 countries and territories joining in the global display of climate action.
This year's Earth Hour takes place on Saturday 26 March at 8.30PM (Irish time), and as well as being the perfect opportunity to finally do that moonlit treasure hunt/ghost story marathon/sponsored silence in the dark* you've been planning, it's a chance to think about what else you can do to make a difference once the lights are back on.
So get involved, switch off the lights and anything else you can do without for the hour (hair straighteners included) and get ready for some good clean wholesome (and potentially candlelit) fun.
*any other suggestions for how to spend the time will be gratefully received, we're really struggling.
beats by dr dre on Juicy mocktails
Gillian Kennedy on Cherry good
LINDA RYAN on Cherry good
Jonathon on Cherry good
Alison O'Leary-Fitzpatrick on Cherry good
Helen on Cherry good
Jennifer Bogue on Cherry good
Helen on Cherry good
Dermot on Cherry good