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1) "Trust birth" is a nice slogan and a fallacy. Especially since it implies that if your birth doesn't go well, you just didn't trust it. (Law of the contrapositive.)

2) When someone posts that they had preeclampsia, the answer is not "pre-e is completely preventable through the Brewer diet". The Brewer diet is pregnancy woo. (it's a claim that a high protein diet will prevent preeclampsia. No one ever duplicated Brewer's results, and it goes against current, evidence-based theories of preeclampsia.)

ETA: this kind of stuff makes me REALLY angry. I had preeclampsia (no one used that word at the time, and it still irks me [I was treated like I was little better than a child] but I talked to the GP later) and I have the emergency C-section scar to prove it. I know someone who had a 24 weeker because of her pre-e. And I know plenty of women whose fabled "instincts" didn't kick in.

Some thoughts:

1) apparently potatoes are the most wasted item. Today, I was reminded why: the damn 2.5 kg bags. Most people these days won't go through them before they rot, and the plastic bags are awful at keeping them from going off.

Article in yesterday's Guardian had tips for reducing waste and saving money. Two got me:

a) "Never shop at supermarkets". Well, what a DUMB blanket statement. Supermarkets aren't always cheaper, but often they are. I've been in local shops that charged well over what Tesco did. If saving money is the most important thing then you need to comparison shop, and don't exclude somewhere just because it's Teh Ebil Supermarket.

b) "Buy perishables every day." Hmm... and how much time, effort, and indeed fuel (costs £££) does this take?? We don't all live down the road from the greengrocers. Which usually closes at 5pm so forget it if you work. Unless you, erm, go to Tesco! so much for skipping the supermarket...