Now we all know that olive oil is good for you, but how much olive oil is too much? Let me start this by saying that we get through a lot of olive oil. Last year our olive oil consumption topped 40 litres. I feel the need to justify this use by saying that; it is the only oil we use, I use it as a moisturiser and make olive oil cakes and….well I cannot really justify it further. But as I read online , olive oil is good for you! Peter and I recently went to the olive oil press to purchase this year’s requirements. The press that we go to is over an hour away and we choose to go here because it’s been recommended and the price of olive oil is 2 euros cheaper here per litre compared to our local press. Despite having 15 olive trees we have made the decision not to pick and press our own olive oil. Our friends as Casa Azul cannot believe we don’t use our own olives, each year they harvest their olives and take them to their local press – their blog on LiquidGold tal