Trudy Slabosz

It started out with a simple enough idea of gathering together a list of plant-foods which offer a good source of the nutrients most important to our health when cutting out meat and animal products. Nutro’s directory of nutrient dense plant-foods allows you to easily identify the right foods to boost intake of key essential nutrients – like iron, protein, calcium and vitamin B12 – the right foods to support good health and keep you plant strong when cutting out the meat and animal products. Nutro identifies key vitamins and minerals of particular importance to those on a plant-based diet and shows you exactly which plant-foods offer the best source. And while I highly recommend seeking professional guidance to get the best tailored and up-to-date information on a diet to meet your specific nutritional needs, Nutro is a handy resource that can help make balanced, healthy plant-based eating a little easier.

Still, with the site update, it’s been great to hear from so many of you who still use this little space regularly and keep coming back for your favourite veg food recipes. Great in a pita pocket, these tasty carrot falafel, are also great in a turkish bun or if you prefer, serve them up in a lettuce wrap for a super veggie powered meal. * 1-2 tsp harissa (to taste) (or use tomato paste for a mild, kid friendly version) Throw the chopped carrot and wedges of onion into a baking tray. Serve the falafel immediately, piled into the warm pita pockets with lots of sprouts, cucumber, grated carrot and a good drizzle of the creamy harissa sauce.

Banana bread comes in many forms and is one of those things that’s easy to cook with basic ingredients and you can pretty much bet it will taste amazing. This Peanut Butter Banana Bread is moist, subtlety sweet and full of the goodness and deliciousness of rye and cacao. I adapted the recipe from one found in a Donna Hay magazine and that’s the great thing about banana bread Replace the peanut butter with almond butter if you wish and if you like your banana bread nice and sweet you can always add a little more sugar, although I truly think it’s sweet enough.

Harissa sauce, spiced lentils, syrupy pickled beets, crunchy fennel, sweet mint, all drizzled with creamy tahini; it sure made my belly happy! ! Preparation time: 20 minutes (+ around 50 minutes to prepare the above) // makes two medium pizzas * 2 Lebanese flat bread or pizza base of your choice Pre-heat the oven to 200°C/390°F and line two baking trays with baking paper. Spread the tomato paste mixture over the flat bread or pizza bases, top in a single layer with a good amount of the spicy lentil mince, scatter over the pickled beets and then the pine nuts. Remove from the oven and scatter with the sliced fennel, roughly tear and scatter over the mint and fennel greens and then drizzled with tahini before cutting into wedges to serve.