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Have you ever looked into your fridge and thought “what on earth are we having to eat tonight?”. If you have, you aren’t alone. Lack of planning can lead to spending a lot of money on food, throwing food away, and feeling stressed about what meals you’re going to eat that day. The thing is, we want to be proactive instead of reactive.  If we are deciding each day what to eat instead of planning in advance, this takes up a lot of our mental capacity. If you are new to meal planning and budgeting or planning in general, then...

This plant based diet meal plan is full of healthy, gluten free and vegan recipes for you. Many of them use shelf stable pantry foods! Making these recipes will give you delicious replacements for dairy, eggs, gluten, and refined sugar. Disclosure – We are grateful to be partnering with Bob’s Red Mill on this post. Thank you for supporting the brands that allow me to create plant based gluten free meal plans and recipes  Alright my friends, I asked, you responded. The time for more plant based recipes with shelf stable items is NOW! I’ll also be showing you a few ways you...

But when chef-owner Brandon Kirksey set out to build Great Gold, a modern American Italian restaurant in San Francisco, he prioritized getting fresh, house made gluten-free pasta on the menu. “There is extreme demand for gluten-free,” Kirksey says. “People still want to eat pasta.” As everything is handcrafted daily in-house, the chef refused to use pre-packaged gluten-free pasta. He purchased a pasta extruder, a kitchen appliance that mixes raw ingredients and, with a flip of a switch, presses the dough through a die-cut brass plate. Add the casarecce plate and short, curled noodles emerge. Add the spaghetti plate and long...

If you're anything like me, you are constantly saving Pinterest recipes or finding delicious recipes on different websites. I have my stash of cookbooks but majority of the time I am simply printing them off from the internet. I wanted to come up with a method on how to organize recipes that I print off from online or that I get sent to me from my family members (ya know, like good ole' family recipes ;).  What I started doing was printing off recipes and then putting them in a binder. I loved how this was working out so I...

Chia, flax, aquafaba, vegetable puree, mashed banana – all have their uses depending on what dish you’re making For egg substitutes, recipes often call for labour-intensive or unusual ingredients. I tried a flax seed and water paste in brownies, and although they tasted nice, the flax and water ran out and separated. Why? What substitutes can you buy from standard shops? Niamh, Lewes, East Sussex While eggs can be hard to replace – they give us structure, moisture and the ability to bind ingredients – you can get pretty darn close, Niamh. The Great British Bake Off made aquafaba, AKA...