The Mindful Journal
Welcome to The Mindful Journal, your home for mindful living on and off the plate. Explore expert health and nutrition advice, vibrant dishes, and inspiration for feeding the family. Rooted in our B-Corp values, we champion ethical eating and how we can shape a food system for the future.
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New cool packs
At Mindful Chef, sustainability isn’t just a nice-to-have—it’s at the heart of everything we do. That means we’re constantly looking for ways to reduce packaging, find sustainable alternatives, and make recycling as easy as possible for you. That’s why we’re excited to introduce our cool packs...
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Northern Ireland: Mindful Chef has arrived!
Exciting News: We’re Now Delivering Mindful Chef Recipe Boxes to Northern Ireland! At Mindful Chef, we're passionate about bringing the joy of healthy, delicious meals to your doorstep. That's why we’re beyond excited to announce that we’re now delivering our nutritious recipe boxes to Northern...
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Mindful Chef Reverse Advent Calendar 2024
Our Reverse Advent Calendar is back to turn the traditional advent calendar on its head and help give back instead! Ready to send off your items? Generate your DPD label here: https://our-returns.dpd.co.uk/MINDFUL_CHEF How to take part: 1. Pop a non-perishable food item into your Mindful Chef box...
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Summer berry vegan custard tart recipe | Mindful Chef x Beauty Pie
We’ve teamed up with Beauty Pie, the world’s first luxury beauty buyer’s club, to bring you a treat! Not only do we have a delicious Summer Berry Vegan Custard Tart recipe for you (scroll down), but we've got an exclusive offer too! Enjoy a 3-month Beauty Pie membership (worth £30) and discover...
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What does it mean to be a B Corp?
In celebration of B Corp month, we sat down with our founder, Myles, to chat about what it means for Mindful Chef to be a B Corp and how we are moving our business forward to better, bolder and brighter things. Stay tuned to see how we are moving #thiswayforward Tell us a little bit about when &...
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A summer of street food is back!
What do we love when it comes to Street Food? It’s quick, easy, but most importantly delicious. That’s why we’ve brought our Street Food menu back this summer with some of your favourites plus a whole load of new recipes to get stuck into. We’ll be bringing our favourite flavours from around the...
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Is dark chocolate healthy?
Dark chocolate. What’s not to love, right? Tastes lovely. Is made of chocolate. However, is it really the healthy treat we think it is? In this post, we'll take a closer look at whether dark chocolate is healthy or whether we should all be dipping into the Kinder Eggs, instead. So that last bit...
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Is coffee healthy?
Context:Ah coffee. Whether you drink yours as straight up, extra foam, extra hot, short and punchy, over ice or in the biggest mug possible, this not-so-humble bean runs the world. Not only does coffee give us a hit of energy, it’s meant to have a number of potential health benefits, too. So is...
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Vegan chocolate cake with sea salt
We’ve partnered with Flora to bring you a slice of chocolate heaven. Sink into a decadent & rich vegan chocolate cake, made with Flora’s new Salted Plant B+tter. It’s got all the creamy and buttery flavour, but with 50% less carbon emissions. It’s the plant-based alternative, perfect for cooking,...
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Tim Spector’s 5 science-backed food hacks to improve your health
Tim Spector is one of the world’s top 100 most cited scientists and the author of The Sunday Times bestselling book Spoon-Fed and Food for Life. Less MORE is more Research shows that individuals who eat at least 30 different plants a week have more varied gut bacteria and better overall health....
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Is alcohol healthy?
Can alcohol really be healthy? Does a red wine a day keep the doctor away? How much is too much? Can you really drink and live a healthy lifestyle? This ubiquitous beverage is drunk across the world in thousands of different forms, yet its effects on health are wide-ranging. We all know that up...
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Are energy drinks healthy?
Context: Energy drinks. Good. Bad. Avoid? When energy drinks are everywhere, with their promise of a quick, no-guilt hit of energy, what do you believe? Do you sip them to power through the day, or give them a wide berth? We’re here to help. Are energy drinks healthy? We’re going to come right...
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