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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Healthy pork recipes
The pork we put in your Mindful Chef recipe boxes is always free-range, 100% British, and as succulent as they come. It’s quick to cook, full of protein and low in salt. Which is why your healthy pork recipes can bring all these new flavours to your plate. Like our silky meatballs in a jammy...
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Welcome to a world of healthy recipes
We’re Mindful Chef and we make healthy eating easy. With the sort of feel-good food and high quality ingredients that kickstart healthy habits and keep you satisfied. The trouble with some healthy recipe sites is well, things can look a little dry can’t they? We’re here to prove that healthy...
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What is sustainable food?
When it comes to sustainable food, there’s a lot more bubbling up than those two little words. But, what does sustainable food actually mean? And how do you know what goes on your plate is sustainable? Sustainable food is made up of two parts: • the actual food itself • how it’s grown, harvested...
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Healthy date night dinner ideas
It’s date night, but you’re fresh out of inspiration! Don’t panic, because we’ve got some amazing healthy dinner ideas for two that are perfect for a night in together. Whether you’re cooking for your amour or amour-to-be, you’ll be sizzling British bavette steaks, smearing pesto into mushrooms,...
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Healthy fish & chips recipe
If you’re spending hours scouring for healthier versions of this takeaway classic, may we present our chef-perfected, nutritionally balanced, healthy fish and chips recipe. Yes. Believe your eyes. How can you make low calorie fish and chips? ..and it still taste nice? We hear you. It’s all in the...
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How to reduce food waste
We all do it. An unfinished dinner here, the end of a carrot there. Too many bags of salad. That thing lurking in the back of the fridge you meant to eat, but now it’s past its best. Snacks to unwrap. Sandwich bags for lunch. Takeaway curry cartons (you need our homemade versions here!) When it...
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Healthy vegetarian recipes
We can’t get enough fresh, seasonal veg. That’s why all our healthy vegetarian recipes star the best UK-grown veggies we love! From the crisp salad leaves picked for you by Westlands in the Vale of Evesham, to the nutty celeriac grown by the brilliant Jack Buck, it’s easy to get your 5-a-day -...
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What is keto?
If you’re new to keto, it’s a diet that favours high fat, low carb foods. Normally with less than 50mg of carbs a day. (Psst, that includes the carbs you get from the natural sugars in fruit and some veg, too). When you’re on a keto diet, the aim is to get the body into a metabolic state called...
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How to make scrambled eggs healthy
They’re the breakfast and brunch staple that normally comes loaded with butter, milk, and maybe even a splash of cream (we’re sorry, arteries), but when it comes to how to make healthy scrambled eggs, that got our chefs thinking: how can we whip ‘em up and still get them tasting like a treat....
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Healthy fish pie recipe
Mounds of pillowy (dare we say cheesy) potato mash that’s been bubbling in the oven until it’s crispy on top. An enveloping rich cream sauce underneath. It sounds lovely, but we’re here with the alternative: a healthy fish pie recipe that tastes amazing and is a welcome low fat fish pie recipe...
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What is sustainable food?
When it comes to sustainable food, there’s a lot more bubbling up than those two little words. But, what does sustainable food actually mean? And how do you know what goes on your plate is sustainable? Sustainable food is made up of two parts: • the actual food itself • how it’s grown, harvested...
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Healthy aubergine recipes for everyone
Brinjal, eggplant or aubergine, when it comes to this purple plant you can stuff ‘em, bake ‘em, fry ‘em, blitz ‘em, roast and more and that got us thinking, is there nothing this purple plant can’t do? Aubergine’s dark side is that it can suck up a lot of oil (which is why so many...
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