Transition & Family
Sustaining it for decades
A large proportion of people who adopt plant-based diets return to eating animal products, and the reasons are consistent and mostly addressable.
Topic
practical
Every Plant-Based Nutrition Guide article tagged practical — 12 pieces across 6 sections.
Transition & Family
Reintroducing foods, if you decide to
People change their diets in both directions and reintroduction is discussed far less than transition, which leaves people without practical information.
Transition & Family
Eating plant-based where the shops are limited
Most plant-based advice assumes a well-stocked supermarket and a specialist aisle. A great many people have neither.
Cooking Technique
Cooking with almost no equipment
Student kitchens, shared houses, hostels and small flats all impose constraints, and very little is actually needed.
Protein & Amino Acids
Tracking your intake, briefly and usefully
Most people should not track food long term, and a short period of tracking is one of the most informative things you can do.
Micronutrients
Iron-rich meals: putting the principles together
Everything about iron absorption becomes practical when applied to actual meals rather than to a list of foods.
Sport & Performance
Travelling and eating well away from home
Athletes travel constantly and the food environment away from home is where fuelling plans fall apart.
Meal Building
Snacks that are not just carbohydrate
Snacking is where a great deal of plant-based intake happens and where the protein disappears entirely.
Cooking Technique
Convenience without the ultra-processed aisle
Cooking from scratch every night is not realistic for most people. There is a large middle ground between that and a packet.
Meal Building
Lunch you will actually take to work
Packed lunch fails because it is either too ambitious or too dull, and both failures end at the sandwich shop.
Meal Building
What a week of meals actually looks like
Meal planning fails when it is too ambitious. A workable week uses a small number of components, cooked once, recombined.
Transition & Family
Starting out: the first month without wrecking it
Most people who abandon plant-based eating do so in the first six weeks, for reasons that are predictable and mostly avoidable.