The holidays can be a tough time for any diet, but especially for vegans! Somehow, turkey, roast beef, and ham have become synonymous with the winter, festive season. Luckily, times are changing and we have more meat substitutes available than ever before. You don't have to wait for January or ...
READ MORE +Mushrooms are a common grocery food gracing our supermarket shelves but there are many varieties of these wonderful fungi that are yet to make their way into the mainstream. One of these varieties is Reishi; a ruby red mushroom teeming with health benefits that are becoming increasingly better ...
READ MORE +Happy New Year 2021! Let's do our best to put the difficult year of 2020 behind us and look forward to ways we can overcome stress and anxiety. Whilst Reishi Mushroom (or Lingzhi) may be foreign to some, it is a popular ingredient used by Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioners. There are ...
READ MORE +Vitamin D - aka ‘the sunshine vitamin’, is produced in your skin when exposed to sunlight which can account for up to 90% of our total vitamin D intake, the other 10% coming from what we eat. It’s a fat-soluble vitamin including compounds of vitamin D1, D2, and D3 and is absolutely essential for ...
READ MORE +Due to our busy lives we often run ourselves ragged and need boosts of energy throughout the day. It is important to keep check of your energy levels on any diet and on a vegan diet we must be a little more mindful of what we eat to make sure we're getting a nutritious and balanced diet. It is, ...
READ MORE +The toastie is classic comfort food. When a sandwich suddenly becomes warm, crunchy and gooey, your mouth knows it’s in for a treat. The trouble is, when you’re pursuing a fitness goal, the toastie often carries a lot of unwanted baggage in the form of saturated fats and sugar. Want to keep your ...
READ MORE +Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that helps your body absorb calcium and maintain adequate concentrations of magnesium and phosphate; three important nutrients for teeth, muscles and bones. It also helps control the exchange of calcium between the bones and the blood. Low levels of the vitamin ...
READ MORE +The burning question anyone following a vegan diet is frequently faced with sounds something like, ‘you’re vegan…so what can you eat?’ The truth is of course, that options are abundant. Read on for more in Vegan Daily: What I Eat in a Day! Vegan Breakfast Arguably the best meal of the day. At no ...
READ MORE +Flu season is fully-fledged and now around us and as bitter nights lie opposite cold days, many people it seems are falling sick about us. Winter weather means your immune system, usually responsible for warding off nasty viruses, often takes a knock causing viruses to spread much that more easily ...
READ MORE +The most well-known of all the oriental mushrooms, the shiitake mushroom not only tastes good, but also has a number of potencies. Its name comes from the Japanese words ‘shii’, which refers to the tree it grows on, and ‘také’, which simply means mushroom. Now you know a little bit more about these ...
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