4 new veg packed recipes

And a weekly meal planner

Feb 06, 2025

∙ Paid

Hello hello, I’m thrilled that at 5pm tonight when I was finishing up my walk around the block, it had only just got dark. One lady and I passed each other a few times on our respective power walking circuits and shared a lovely moment rejoicing in the fact that the days were getting longer. I really feel the difference in my energy as we eke out a few more minutes of sunlight each day and I’ve loved spotting snowdrops & the first daffodils earlier this week.

At the end of last year, the lovely food magazine, Ocado Life asked me to come up with 4 joyous recipes to kick off 2025 with colour, flavour, veg & plant points.

I absolutely loved developing them and recipe testing and excited to share them here with you. The professional looking photos (further down in this email, it’s a long email today with all the food pics) are shot by the magazine but thought you’d like to see the real life pics of my recipe testing days. When I develop recipes for magazines or books, I take a few pics throughout the process to remind me when I’m rejigging presentation or tweaking quantities or to give notes to the editor.

The 4 veg packed recipes for you to save are:

Miso Mushroom, Tofu and Spinach Soba Noodles

Squash and Rosemary Lentils

Leek and Sprout Spaghetti

Parsnip Fritters with Pomegranate Salsa and Lime Yoghurt

Weekly Meal Planner

I wrote up a day by day guide for meal planning here. There’s endless reasons I love meal planning but 5 main reasons are because it:

Helps us eat more fruit & veg & a greater diversity of them
Helps us eat less ultra processed foods & eat more real foods
Helps us waste less food
Helps us save money
Helps us spend less time cooking & more time eating together as a family

Inspired by the recipes, tips & ideas from my book Real Healthy, here’s the weekly meal planner that I use at home. Hopefully you can print it out and use it. I’m trying to organise getting these printed, would you buy them?