Tins of Nóstimo organic beans and pulses

Meet Nóstimo: Real Mediterranean Beans and Pulses, Straight From the Tin

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Every good kitchen needs a hero it can rely on, and few earn that title as quietly as a tin of beans. It sits in the cupboard costing very little, ...
A home-cooked pot of stew, traditional grandma-style cooking

How to Cook Grandma Style: Simple Real-Food Cooking

There is a reason so many of us remember our grandmothers' cooking so fondly. It was not fancy, and it rarely followed a written recipe, but it was...
Affordable whole-food staples like oats, pulses and grains

Eating Whole on a Budget: How to Fill Most of Your Plate With Real Food for Less

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One of the biggest myths about eating well is that real food is a luxury. It is easy to believe when a shiny "healthy" ready meal costs more than a...
A traditional home-cooked plate of whole food beside modern packaged food

Grandmother's Plate vs Today's Plate: What Britain Lost, and How to Get It Back

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Picture your grandmother's kitchen table. Now picture the contents of a typical shopping trolley today. In the space of a few generations, the Brit...
Ultra-processed packaged foods, linked in research to stroke and cognitive decline

Ultra-Processed Food and Your Brain: What a Major Study Found About Stroke and Memory

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We already know that ultra-processed foods are linked to problems like weight gain and heart disease. Now a large study has added the brain to that...
Reading a food ingredients label to spot ultra-processed food

Most of Us Want to Avoid Ultra-Processed Food, but Can We Actually Spot It?

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Ultra-processed food is everywhere in the headlines, and plenty of us have decided we would like to eat less of it. There is just one problem: when...
Millet grain, flakes and flour, a naturally gluten-free wholegrain

What Is Millet? A Guide to This Underrated Gluten-Free Grain

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Millet is one of those foods that has been feeding people for thousands of years yet still flies under the radar in British kitchens. It is natural...
Budget whole-food staples such as oats, rice and pulses

Cheap Wholefoods: How to Eat Well for Less

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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...
A jar of natural nut butter made from just nuts

How to Choose the Best Nut Butter: What to Look for on the Label

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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 pods and carob powder, a naturally sweet caffeine-free chocolate alternative

Carob: Everything You Need to Know About the Chocolate Alternative

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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,...
A bowl of nutritional yeast flakes, or nooch, used as a cheesy dairy-free seasoning

How to Use Nutritional Yeast: Delicious Ways to Cook With Nooch

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...
Dry textured vegetable protein, or TVP, soya mince and chunks

What Is TVP? A Guide to Textured Vegetable Protein and How to Use It

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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...