Deliciously Ella How To Go Plant-Based: A Definitive Guide For You and Your Family

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This book demystifies going plant-based, making it as easy, clear and delicious as possible, and features 100 new recipes to get you started on your plant-based journey. How to Go Plant-Based is not just filled with family-friendly recipes, it's also a practical guide incorporating Ella's own journey, alongside scientific research and data, plus insights and information from plant-based experts, including doctors and nutritionists. Ella debunks the common myths surrounding eating a plant-based diet, shares her experiences of cooking for her family and emphasises the importance of making a plant-based diet accessible to everyone - for health, wellbeing, and the planet.

Do just one thing at a time and ask, where I would like to be 365 days from today? How would I like to be living my life? How would I like to be eating? What healthy tools would I like in my life? Not, what do I want to be doing tomorrow or next Monday? So, small and steady, thinking about decades, not days. And making it taste good. Because if it doesn't taste good, it won't last." Before you can say “energy ball” we’re talking Blue Zones, habit-forming and willpower. I haven’t even got my dictaphone out. Mills is always prepared for talking about our health, minds and bodies. This is her life’s mission. What else was I expecting from the Queen of Wellness? She is wiser and more self-assured than the young woman who not so much burst onto the wellness scene as precipitated it, going from niche to mainstream within a year of founding her blog while at the University of St Andrews ­studying history of art.Photo: Courtesy of Deliciously Ella/ @deliciouslyella Make Hearty Meals at Home—Especially at Night

It was a long project. When I started Deliciously Ella over 10 years ago [publishing plant-based recipes online] it was still very niche. Now 48% of the population are buying plant-based food products on a regular basis. A huge number of young people want to be flexitarian, vegetarian or plant-based and parents are thinking, ‘What do I do?’ What are the biggest misconceptions about plant-based eating? Garlicy roasted aubergine ragu: "It's actually on the front cover of the book. It's a good one because it just has a nice funkiness to it, a heartiness to it. I think when you have anything with pasta, it immediately feels quite accessible." Regarding what she hopes people take away from her book, Ella said: “If people take one thing away, it’s that it doesn’t have to be all or nothing. It’s not a diet, it’s not a three-day thing, it’s just gently improving your health for the next few decades. It’s just more veg, more simple food.” No stranger to sceptics, Mills is focused on making sure that the facts in the book are correct. "This is up-to-date, relevant, statistically correct information that I'm getting because I think there's still a nervousness that wellness and wellbeing can be a bit woo woo and wishy-washy. And I wanted to make sure that that was not the case at all, that it was interesting and inspiring, but equally very robust," she says. Ella with her seventh book How To Go Plant-based (Picture: Supplied) In 10 years you’ve started four businesses, have 40 products in seven countries, written seven books, had two kids, moved house and offices. How are you still standing?

Plant-based refers to a diet rich in simple, natural, wholefood ingredients such as beans, nuts, seeds, fruits and vegetables. It’s a diet rather than a lifestyle. [Whereas] the term vegan has ethical origins and refers to the way you live your life way beyond what’s on your plate.

We’ve published about 3,000 plant-based recipes through the various different Deliciously Ella platforms since I started the company, and these are five of my personal go-to’s. They’re simple, delicious, and perfect for busy weeks.” The word “based” for her means more people eating more plants more of the time. “As opposed to, ‘Right, from tomorrow I’m never doing that again!’” she says. You might not want to be plant-based, you don’t need to be plant-based – but you do need to eat more plants,” she says unequivocally. Despite the increasing number of people moving towards a plant-based diet, there are no clear, evidence-based mainstream books to help anyone looking to adopt this way of eating - either for themselves, or for their family. It can be overwhelming to switch to a plant-based diet, and you may have no idea where to start. Thankfully Ella Mills and her team at deliciously ella have done all the research for you. This book demystifies going plant-based, making it as easy, clear and delicious as possible, and features 100 new recipes to get you started on your plant-based journey.She has no interest in convincing people to become fully plant-based. Although her proudest achievement is converting her father-in-law, a fan of French cooking (“Where the veggies are very much an afterthought”) to some of her recipes. Recipe extracted from How To Go Plant-Based: A Definitive Guide For You and Your Family by Ella Mills, published by Yellow Kite Add the peas and cherry tomatoes, stirring them through. Cook everything for a further five minutes, until the tomatoes soften and the peas are cooked. Then stir through the basil and lemon juice and season to taste. In 2015 Ella started working with her husband, Matthew Mills, and together they have launched over 100 plant-based food products into 10,000+ stores across the UK and globally, with customers including Tesco, Ocado, Morrisons, Waitrose, Holland and Barrett, Boots, Sainsburys and more. With a team of almost 50 people, they're running one of the fastest growing food brands in the UK. They have also opened a London restaurant, Plants, dedicated to showing the breath of plant-based cooking.

It’s day and night. The term plant-based was largely unheard of. Now, almost half the population is buying plant-based food products in supermarkets, and conversations around the impact of how we live on our health are part of the mainstream. She might make and sell granola, but it is educating and communicating with her community that truly excites and motivates the 31-year-old. Despite the increasing number of people moving towards a plant-based diet, there are no clear, evidence-based mainstream books to help anyone looking to adopt this way of eating – either for themselves, or for their family. It can be overwhelming to switch to a plant-based diet, and you may have no idea where to start. Thankfully Ella Mills and her team at deliciously ella have done all the research for you. This book demystifies going plant-based, making it as easy, clear and delicious as possible, and features 100 new recipes to get you started on your plant-based journey. Instead of standing her ground, she got hurt. If the same thing happened today, she says she would feel better equipped to reply to her critics. Place a large saucepan on a medium heat and add the olive oil and a generous sprinkling of salt. Once it’s warm, add the onions and cook for five minutes, until softened.If you really listen to the scientists, the ­doctors and the researchers, what they will tell you will change your health is eating lentils and carrots and going for a walk on your lunch break, but all that stuff is so unsexy,” she admits.