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Nat Middleton

@nmcooks.bsky.social
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🇧🇷🇬🇧🇳🇿 Head of Food Education @foodbehindbars 👩🏽‍🍳 all things prison reform, cooking, rugby & animals. views my own.

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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Haven’t been on here for a while. Hope everyone is good. Merry Christmas, a very quiet one for us as im recovering from ankle ligament reconstruction surgery that I had on the 19th Dec. Strict rest/ elevation for 2 weeks. In a boot I can’t take off. Husband looking after me very well
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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 24/12/2025
You spectacularly generous people have raised £13k so far. We have a beyond-excited three year old likely to wake us at 5am, so it’s an early night here. I’ll have to catch up with the pix in the morning ♥️ #DuvetKnowItsChristmas www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
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Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025, organized by Rhodri Marsden
Unbelievably, it's the 15th year of this thing. What is it? Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Just made some ANZAC biscuits 🍪 i’ve been feeling a bit under the weather today so hopefully they fix me.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Word of the day is ‘whiffling’ (17th century): fickle, inconstant, and making it up as you go along.
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Nifty Fox Creative @niftyfoxcreative.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Mealtimes should be nourishing - both physiologically & emotionally. But, hospital eating environments in mental health wards don't always create the best setting for healing. Take a look at our animation with @susanguthrieslt.bsky.social exploring patient stories: vimeo.com/1041186684...
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Patient Stories of Meals on Mental Health Wards
This is "Patient Stories of Meals on Mental Health Wards" by Nifty Fox Creative on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Physio thinks i have a meniscus injury 😭pain in my knee, it feels weak, it hurts if I bend it, straighten it or it twists. Physio also thinks it’s because my left knee has been overcompensating for my bad right ankle since my accident almost 3 years ago! So fed up with being in pain
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
@kinglucythe1st.bsky.social Sam, can you email me your address? I’ll post your onion soup packets now I’m back from NZ . Natalia@foodbehindbars.co.uk
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
@kinglucythe1st.bsky.social I got you 6 onion soup packets today! I hope that’s okay? X
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
One more flight to go and i’ll be in my other home! Woohoo
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Im going to NZ tonight!! Currently sat in the lounge having a rose 🍷
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I’m flying to NZ later today! Looking forward to seeing my parents and getting some sun. Not keen on the short visit though!
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Long haul flyers, what are your top tips? I always love new ideas.
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
He’s been found! Thanks for sharing everyone
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
My soon to be sister in law’s cousin went missing last night in Manchester. Last seen at half time… he left his phone and wallet as his seat when went to the loo and hasn’t been seen since. Robbie Hepburn age 40. Please share far and wide.
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Ginny is having one of the screws in her knee removed on Monday. Her 4th procedure on the knee since the end of 2022. Poor girl.
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Ginny is having an xray on her knee this morning. I don’t do well when she is in the vets for a procedure. I probably wont be calm until I know she is okay and awake. Hopefully it’s only something small and she won’t need another knee surgery. She’s been through a lot in the past few years.
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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
#RecipeOfTheDay is a soothing soup for those struck down with seasonal lurgy, though it’s lovely, too, for those of us who are not afflicted. It’s Cauliflower, Garlic and Turmeric Soup! www.nigella.com/recipes/caul...
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Cauliflower, Garlic and Turmeric Soup
Packed full of vegetables and phytonutrients, it is undeniably true that this soup is both soothing and bolstering as well as easy and gratifying to eat. Baking the garlic gives a lot of depth while t...
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
@kinglucythe1st.bsky.social have you watched the new jamie oliver cooking show on channel 4?
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Jono Read @jonoread.co.uk · 05/01/2025
Absolutely awful news. news.sky.com/story/former...
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The Vivienne: Former RuPaul's Drag Race UK winner dies at 32
Former RuPaul's Drag Race UK winner James Lee Williams, known as The Vivienne, has died at the age of 32.
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Caught up with someone I went to school with this morning! It’s been 18 years and they just happened to be in the same city!
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
We are watching Klaus!
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
What’s everyone’s Christmas eve plan? We are watching Klaus and having a takeaway and then opening presents and then watching our presents 🤗🎄🎁
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
It’s the 19th of December in NZ, which means my dad is 80 🎈🥂🎁 he’s loving the videos I got his friends to do and is so happy with all your memories of Smollensky’s… Just wish I was there to celebrate too 😔
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The trailer for our new Prison Food Education Programme is now on our website and on our instagram! www.foodbehindbars.co.uk/programme
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General 5 — Food Behind Bars
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Thanks everyone who has shared. It’s now close to his birthday and I’ve got lots of lovely messages to share with him ☺️
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I have a niche request for any restaurants lovers who happen to remember the Smollensky’s restaurants in London… could you please share with me your happy memories of visiting there… my dad who founded and owned them is turning 80 very soon and i’d love to share some stories.
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Ginny would like you to see her Christmas jumper! Oh and her pea! 🫛
Ginny our scruffy brown, black and white dog wearing her woollen red, green and white Christmas jumper. Sitting proudly with her green pea toy in our kitchen with wooden cupboard doors and wooden floor.
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Can anyone link me to some food education resources aimed at adults? They all seem to be aimed at children… thanks 🙏🏽
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
It’s been a week since Ginny was attacked and she’s been signed of by the vet. Her wounds are healing well and she’s had an off lead run around. We are still dealing with the daycare side of things.
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
If you’re having a real tree this year when are you getting it? We haven’t had a real tree before and really want it to last. The wreath is on the door and we are doing some other decorating today/ tomorrow ☺️
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Ginny’s going in shortly for her general anaesthetic to have her wounds cleaned and sorted. Today is going to be a long day. I don’t do well when she goes in for things that require a general. But she will be fine.
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
What’s your favourite soup combination? Im a big fan of a roasted butternut squash and lentil soup and leek and potato. I find pea and ham really weird and mushroom is horrible.
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
My poor girl got attacked at her doggy daycare today, she’s having a general anaesthetic on Friday so they can clean the wounds and check everything. She has 2 puncture wounds and one cut. She’s on pain meds and antibiotics and in her little pjs feeling very sleepy and sorry for herself 😭😭😭🥺🥺🥺😞😞😞
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
A snuggly Ginny says hello 👋🏽
Ginny our scruffy german wirehaired pointer wrapped up in a blue duvet keeping warm. she has a brown, grey and white bear and eyebrows with golden brown eyes and a black nose. With one war flipped backwards
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Vegetable chilli for lunch today with courgette, pepper, onion, lentils and kidney beans along with spring onion, mozzarella and roasted butternut squash and sweet potato
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Wooohoo our planning permission has been granted! We are building a deck!
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Managed to get peppers, onion, spinach, mushrooms, carrot, courgette and tinned tomatoes into our pasta sauce. Along side turkey mince, dried oregano, lea and perrins and garlic granules. Should be yummy and enough for dinner tonight and tomorrow night.
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Ginny’s been to hydrotherapy and i’ve been to physio. Now thinking of what soup i’ll have for lunches next week! Thinking spiced roasted sweet potato and either lentils or kidney beans.
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Yay the husband and doggo are coming to meet me at the station so we can walk home together ☺️i was going to get the bus, but this way i will get my steps in
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Time Out did a post about what London restaurant(s) you would love to see return and I was scrolling through the comments out of curiosity and someone said the restaurant my dad used to own and I’m all emotional now 😭😅I took screenshots to show dad, he’s gonna be so chuffed!
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
My dad is having a heart procedure done at the moment, I won’t be able to sleep until I know he is okay. Times like this i hate being so far away. He will be 80 next month.
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
My ankle is not enjoying the cold weather 😭😭🤣 have got the hot water bottle on it. Hopefully that helps
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Leek, potato and white bean soup for lunches this week coz it is chilly 🥶
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Yay it’s snowing in Bristol!
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Word of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Had a brilliant morning in HMP Bristol, running a cooking session for staff and prisoners. We made loads of dishes! Including jerk chicken from scratch, jerk roasted sweet potato, a delicious slaw. Chinese dumplings and smacked cucumber salad, with some pro dumpling folders in the group!
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Meatballs in tomato and spinach sauce with garlic bread and mozzarella for dinner
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
We have started watching Junior Taskmaster. It’s exactly the chaos we need. These kids are hilarious
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Had a really fantastic prison visit this morning. Kicking of an exciting project. We cooked two dishes with a group of men in the main kitchen. They loved them! It’s been a good day 🤩
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Nat Middleton @nmcooks.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Thanks Nic 🙏🏽☺️
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