Hydration Is Boring — So Let Soup Do the Work
Roughly a fifth of your daily fluid comes from food. Three habits that beat any drinking app — and a twenty-minute red lentil soup.
Health Tips
Small habits and vegetarian recipes, published most Thursdays
Health tips from my kitchen
Every post here is something I actually do, not something I read about once. Three of them come with a full vegetarian recipe you can cook tonight — look for the recipe card at the bottom of the article.
Eat Your Fibre: The 30-Gram Habit and a Warm Barley Bowl
Most of us eat half the fibre we need. Here is how to close the gap gently — plus a roasted vegetable and barley bowl with lemon-tahini.
Protein Without Meat — and the Lentil Ragout That Converted My Neighbour
How much protein you really need on a vegetarian diet, where to get it — and a slow lentil ragout with walnuts that tastes like a Sunday.
The Ten-Minute Wind-Down: Better Sleep Without Buying Anything
Legs up the wall, one slow breathing pattern and a dark room. The cheapest sleep intervention I know, and the one that works.
Stop Counting Calories, Start Counting Vegetables
A simpler daily target than any app: thirty different plants a week, and at least two kinds of vegetable on every plate.