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If you don’t already batch cook then here are some great reasons why you should give it a go:

• It will save you time – you’re not simply condensing your cooking time, you’re being smarter with what you cook and repurposing different parts for meals.
• It reduces food waste – because you portion and store smarter you will waste less.
• Therefore, it saves you money.
• It reduces stress, whether that's because you have a plan for what you’re going to eat during the week, its just the comfort of knowing there’s always something in the freezer.
• Because you’re planning your meals in advance it tends to be much healthier, particularly than convenience food that you might fall back on when you're in a hurry.
• There’s always food in the house, and better than that, there’s always meals in the house, so the whole household is happier.
• It saves the planet, especially if we’re talking plant-based batch cooking – less food waste, less packaging, less meat, less dairy.

I’m all about looking for the silver linings of this crazy corona bomb that we’re living through.  I think one of those silver linings is the fact that so many more of us now have the time, or are making the time, to cook from scratch, and even better finding great pleasure and comfort in it.

Chowders are traditionally fishy and creamy which of course doesn't fit into a plant based diet very well, but i just love the richness and the heartiness of them. So I've done quite a bit of experimenting to find the perfect plant based chowder. 

This is our mushroom chowder recipe which is full of lovely nutrients to keep you fighting fit during the change in weather; vit D from the mushrooms, protein from the cashews and vit B12 from the nutritional yeast. 

Four reasons why plant-based porridge is the bomb and a delicious cacao, raspberry & almond porridge recipe to try to convert some of the porridge haters out there!

Pear, pomegranate & butternut squash salad - ‘Wow, this salad is delicious…YUM, like the best I’ve ever eaten!’

Top tips on how to make tasty, filling, colourful salads that you can prepare in advance.

These delicious little carrot cake energy bars taste just like carrot cake but contain no refined sugar.  They are made with nuts and natural sugars from dried fruit so you will get a much more sustainable injection of energy without the crash and burn afterwards.

Saying no to fad diets doesn’t mean saying no to achieving your optimal weight goals, quite the opposite!  But in order to lose weight and keep it off you have to think long term from day one.  There’s no point in doing the cabbage soup diet for 7 days…what happens on day 8, you eat a steak pie & chips because you’re ravenous and end up disheartened because you inevitably put back on some of the weight you lost by starving yourself for a week!?