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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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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Is red meat healthy?
The Context: Red meat (beef, lamb or pork) has been a staple in our diets for so long, but in recent years there has been a lot more talk about the potential health risks associated with its consumption. What’s the beef with red meat? Is red meat healthy? It’s not a simple yes or no answer, this...
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7 one-pot recipes & traybakes to make weeknights easy
It’s 6pm and everyone’s hungry. But there’s piles of stuff everywhere: gym kits and homework, breakfast plates that still need to be put away. The decibels are rising. Your patience is thinning. Sound familiar? Then you know as well as we do that the last thing any hangry home needs is more work...
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9 must-try Asian-inspired recipes for winter
Whenever we ask what dinners you love the most (especially in the colder months) you say: Asian recipes. And why wouldn’t you? Those flavours! That nourishing feeling! It’s all good. Especially when you know we’ve balanced all the nutritionals for you. This year we wanted to fill your menu to the...
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Healthy beef recipes
This blog is all about beef. Ours is British all the way, free-range and grass-fed from our farmers herds munching out on great British pastures. Just as it should be. Our healthy beef recipes are designed by our chefs to celebrate a smorgasbord of flavours, letting the protein do its thing by...
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Healthy chicken recipes
The chicken we’re putting centre stage in your healthy chicken recipes is 100% British and 100% free range: eg, the chicken that goes in your Mindful Chef recipe boxes. (We think that’s what makes it so juicy and tasty, after all.) Whether you’re serving it in crispy green lettuce boats (we love...
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Healthy fish recipes
White fish, flaky fish, oily fish, flat fish, big prawns, little prawns, smoked, we could go on (and on!) when it comes to what bounty that comes out of our oceans. But, whatever fish floats your boat, one thing’s for sure: we’ve got healthy fish recipes for it. In fact, there are so many healthy...
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