Eat Green Dietitian

Delicious corn and zucchini fritters for breakfast.

Who said breakfast must be a high carb sugar laden cereal with milk?

Why it’s best to avoid ultra processed “vegan” products and aim for whole food plant based foods.

Six Ingredients that Take the Plant Out of “Plant-Based” - Protect The Harvest Chances are you’ve heard of plant-based meat. The products have taken grocery stores and fast-food chains by storm. But despite being called “plant-based”, these foods really aren’t the best choice for your body.

From my new cookbook

📸 Look at this post https://www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/food-wine/vegans-vegetarians-nz-rarer-many-thought

Vegans, vegetarians in NZ rarer than many thought There are very few true vegetarians in New Zealand, and vegans are about as rare as a steak before it hits the grill.

At this time of year there’s a glut of broadbeans. They have a bland flavor. Which is not a bad thing because that means you can add them to a wide variety of different dishes and go town with your herbs and spices. Such as burgers, , salads, dips, stir fries and curry. So tonight we having broadband curry with yellow rice.

Meals with broad beans for the next week!!

Want to try something new? Our new recipe is packed full of goodness and a great way to use up a glut of kale.

Sweet potato and peanut stew Mildly spiced, colourful African stew. Easy to prepare and a crowd pleaser. - Sweet potato and peanut stew

Want to try something new and packed full of goodness? Try this African Sweet potato and peanut stew which is a great way to use up a glut of kale.

Sweet potato and peanut stew Mildly spiced, colourful African stew. Easy to prepare and a crowd pleaser. - Sweet potato and peanut stew

African peanut and sweet potato stew (with added kale and broad beans fresh from the garden ). Recipe https://www.bigoven.com/recipe/sweet-potato-and-peanut-stew/3053324

Middle eastern rice. You may wonder about the eggs. They are from happy healthy chooks in our garden.

Merry Christmas everyone

Celebrate world vegan day today!

World Vegan Day on 1 November - celebrating for a good cause - World Vegan Day The vegan way of life is increasingly establishing itself in our society as a way of life that can be practiced not only easily, but above all without the need to cause animal suffering for one’s own food and clothing. Even in rural areas, the range of vegan products available in supermarkets is g...

Pick a beetroot and wanted to try something new with the beetroot leaves ( a great substitute for spinach). Collected a spring onion and some chili’s from the garden. Made some pakoras - super easy. Served with tamarind chutney. Delicious snack.

Makes you think, doesn't it? Even if we can't grow all our own food, we can support local producers. Always check to label to see where a product was produced. The other day I was comparing 2 tins of peaches - one produced in Australia and the other in China. The one from China was cheaper but at what environmental cost? And we do not know the quality of the land or what levels of contaminants, pesticides, herbicides used in production. Important to make the best decision for your health.

Had fun preparing a Sunday Roast! Good to maximise the use of oven - here we have roast veggies, kumara baked in orange juice, oven baked falafel and eggplant. Followed by our favourite rhubarb and apple crumble.

Cookie tins filled with choc chip cookies and oat crunchies. so easy to veganise your baking when you know how. While these would not meet the 5star health rating they are definitely an improvement on store bought cookies which are high in trans fats and other "baddies". The cost savings are also significant and there's no beating the taste of home made cookies! By doing a couple of batches at a time you maximise use of the oven. And kids do love a treat.

This is a really comprehensive presentation on the benefits of going vegan. Besides personal health motivation, Environmental destruction and ethics have to be really compelling reasons. https://youtu.be/44v-x2N0g-A

Plant-Based Diet - Everything You Need To Know [2022 Talk] Here's everything you need to know about a plant-based diet from a talk given at the Eco Medics conference on May 22nd 2022 at the Royal Geographic Society b...

A favourite in our household. Spicy lentil soup with lemon and turmeric. also a good way to use up the greens and herbs from the garden.

Yesterday was such a perfect sunny day, who wants to spend time indoors cooking? So I threw together this quick abundance bowl using leftover quinoa, a spicy peanut dressing and selection of veggies in the fridge. So quick and easy, and very economical. A buddha bowl from the local café could set you back $12-15., whereas using produce you have on hand costs just a fraction of that. Tip; always a good idea to cook extra beans / rice / quinoa or other grains and keep in fridge / freezer for quick meals like this.

Thick, rich veggie soup for a cold winters day. Very simple - just scratch around in garden, fridge and pantry for some basic ingredients, chop up in small pieces and cook. Fresh herbs and greens from garden add lovely taste. Served with home made seed bread. Cost ~ $1.50 for 4 large bowls.

Todays meal. Homemade take out. Red bean and quinoa burgers with fresh homemade rolls. Served with lettuce, beetroot relish and caramelised onions. Potatoes from a local farmer. Beetroot and lettuce from the garden. Total cost Less than $1 a serve. Buns, burgers and chips all baked in the oven at the same time to save time and energy. A high carb meal but well deserved after a week of hard toil in the garden!

Laksa - super easy meal with tofu, laksa, noodles, bok choy and sprouts. Cost ~ $3/person. I cheated a bit as the sprouts were store bought. Next time I'll be better prepared and sprout the mung beans in advance. Another expense was the lemon grass @ $3/ 10g. Fortuitously a friend gave me a plant today so that will be a major saving in future. Peas, bok choy and spring onions from the garden. Did you know bok choy is super easy to grow especially this time of year when there are no cabbage moths. Great thing about vegan meals, so many versatile choices.

Tuesday night dinner. Sweetcorn fritters. and sides using up the last of the summer harvest - green pepper, jalopeno and greens from the garden. Green tomato relish made from left over green tomatoes. These are the tomatoes that don't ripen at the end of the season. (Absolutely the best relish ever). Old fashioned carrot and orange salad (a box of oranges from a friend so have to use those up). 99c a bag carrots from supermarket. So altogether this meal for 3 people would have cost less than $5. Rave reviews. My daughters partner said he'd easily have paid $30 in a restaurant for this meal. In case you're wondering "where's the protein?" - I used chickpea flour for the batter for the sweetcorn fritters.

Remember for the next two weeks we'll be discovering easy low cost meals for the family, with the emphasis of cooking from scratch and incorporating local produce. This was dinner Day 1. Eggplant, butternut and chickpea curry with brown rice and quinoa. Greens and butternut from the veggie patch. Cooking tip: The Phillips One Pot has totally transformed how I prepare my meals. So versatile as it includes sauté, slow cook as well as pressure cook and reheat.