Wholesome Living
Cheap Wholefoods: How to Eat Well for Less
There is a stubborn myth that eating wholefoods and eating cheaply cannot go together, that a cupboard full of natural, unprocessed food is a luxur...
How to Choose the Best Nut Butter: What to Look for on the Label
Nut butter should be one of the simplest foods in the shop: nuts, blended into a jar. Yet walk down the aisle and you will find jars bulked out wit...
Carob: Everything You Need to Know About the Chocolate Alternative
Carob has quietly been a favourite in health food shops for decades, often described as a natural alternative to chocolate. But what exactly is it,...
How to Use Nutritional Yeast: Delicious Ways to Cook With Nooch
Those golden flakes of nutritional yeast, or nooch as it is affectionately known, are one of the most useful things you can keep in a plant-based k...
What Is TVP? A Guide to Textured Vegetable Protein and How to Use It
Walk past the bags of dry, pale chunks and mince labelled TVP and you might have no idea what to do with them. Yet textured vegetable protein is on...
The Most Natural Keto Foods to Stock in Your Pantry
A keto diet is far easier to stick to when your cupboard is working with you rather than against you. The shops are full of processed products stam...
The Different Kinds of Salt, and Which One to Use for What
Stand in front of a shelf of salt these days and it can be baffling. Pink, grey, black, fine, coarse, flaky, cheap and expensive, all promising som...
The Health Benefits of Prunes: Digestion, Bones and How Many to Eat
Prunes have something of an old-fashioned reputation, but this humble dried fruit is genuinely one of the more useful things you can keep in the cu...
Cooking and Baking with Prunes: Delicious Ways to Use More Than a Snack
Most of us think of prunes as something to nibble straight from the bag, and they are lovely that way. But this soft, sweet, dark fruit is a genuin...
How to Store Nuts So They Never Go Rancid: Whole Food Earth's Best Tips
There are few kitchen disappointments quite like reaching for a handful of nuts and getting that sharp, bitter, slightly paint-like taste of rancid...
Why Vanilla Is Almost as Precious as Silver
Vanilla is so familiar that most people think of it as plain, even a byword for ordinary. The truth is almost the opposite. Real vanilla is one of ...
The Real Reason Nuts Cost What They Do
Nuts are one of the most nutritious foods you can eat, but they are rarely cheap. Weigh a handful of almonds or Brazil nuts against a bag of crisps...
