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Power Up for the Afternoon with Nutritiously Great Value Lunches

Midweek Meals for under £2pp

Impressive Summer Suppers

Alfresco-Friendly Summer Lunches with a Nutritious Veggie Boost

Quick & Simple Wholesome Summer Suppers

Delicious Springtime Dishes

Are you missing out on this crucual vitamin?

Embrace Winter Wellness With Our Warming Recipes

Our Coronation Cheesy Baked Eggs - ‘A Recipe Fit For A King!’

5 Plant Based Family Recipes

If you’re looking to eat more plant-based meals this year, then we’ve got a great selection of new recipes for you to try.

Nutritionist Sarah Jones' top 5 tips on plant-based eating

Whether you’re eating less meat for health or environmental factors it’s important that a plant-based diet is balanced enough to give you and your family the essential nutrients you need.

5 Healthy Recipes that Won't Break the Bank

We have created five simple, speedy but mouth-watering family friendly recipes, that can each be made for less than £1.50 per person.

How what we eat can help protect our eyes

A review of age-related macular degeneration and diet, with tips on how to include more lutein rich greens in your meals.

Recipe Ideas for your Jubilee Celebrations

The Queen's Platinum Jubilee is just around the corner, so here are some of our favourite party snacks to help you get ready for the celebrations.

Easy Weekday Meal Ideas for Vegetarian Week

To celebrate National Vegetarian Week, here are four of our favourite vegetarian dishes.

Fuss-free, Tasty Recipes to Enjoy with your Family

We have created four simple recipes that make it easy and cost-effective to add delicious veg into a family diet.

Delicious Easter Recipes to enjoy with Friends and Family

All our Easter favourites, from lamb to chocolate.

Six Tasty Ways to Celebrate the Start of Spring

To mark the new season we’ve shared some of our favourite recipes to enjoy with the family this spring.

Ian Marber's Five Foods For Good Heart Health

For National Heart Month and beyond, Nutrition Therapist Ian Marber has shared his top five foods to eat for good heart health, along with information on the vitamins, minerals and compounds found in each and the benefits these can offer for cardiovascular health.

Nutritionist Pixie Turner’s Top Five Tips for Healthy Plant Based Eating

If you’re planning on going vegan, or simply trying to add more plant-based foods to your diet, there are certain things to bear in mind to ensure you give your body all the nutrients it needs to function healthily. To help, Nutritionist for Discover Great Veg, Pixie Turner, has shared her five top tips for healthy plant-based eating.

Nooni’s Kitchen’s favourite ways to Go Green

Nooni, aka Anushka, has shared three of her favourite ways to Go Green – from an impressive starter with kale to a tasty main with spinach – all of which can be rustled up in under 30 minutes.

Go Green with these recipe ideas from Nadia's Healthy Kitchen

To show you just how easy it is to Go Green, we’ve teamed up with Nadia’s Healthy Kitchen to share three delicious recipes that are sure to tempt your taste buds! The recipes below are all healthy and full of flavour, which anyone can make at home using easy to find ingredients.

What’s in a bag of cavolo nero?

We all know eating vegetables is good for us – and cavolo nero is no exception – in fact it’s often referred to as a super green (super healthy, super tasty, super versatile!) But do you know exactly what nutrients in particular you will find in a bag of cavolo nero?

Go Green this summer with these five easy recipes

With the warmer weather now here (finally!), our thoughts are turning to the delicious dishes to enjoy outside in the sunshine with our favourite leafy green veg. From light and refreshing salads to simple sandwiches perfect for picnics, we have a recipe for every occasion this season.

Nutritionist Pixie Turner’s Top Reasons to ‘Go Green’ This Summer

Leafy greens contain nutrients which can help look after skin and bones, as well as support normal immune function and heart health and Discover Great Veg Nutritionist Pixie Turner has shared her top five reasons why we should all enjoy more of the veg.

Give your weekly menu a healthy boost with these tasty ideas

To help give your weekly menu a healthy nutritious boost, we’ve rounded up our favourite healthy recipes to try this week and beyond with cavolo nero, kale and spinach.

Top 3 reasons why you need to ReDiscover kale

We’re certainly big fans of kale and hope you are too, but should you need any more persuasion, here’s our top 3 reasons why we love kale.

Go meat-free with these veggie recipe ideas

As this week is National Vegetarian Week, we've rounded-up our favourite meat-free dishes to ensure your week is full of tasty veggie inspiration.

Nutritionist Pixie Turner’s Top Tips on Livening up Lunches While Working from Home

To help change up your lunchtime routine and add some excitement to your day, Nutritionist Pixie Turner has shared her top 5 tips for creating simple midday meals.

Go Green at lunchtime with these tasty recipes

We’ve rounded up some of our top lunch recipes featuring our favourite vegetables – cavolo nero, spinach and kale, including two new exclusive recipes from our friends Cupful of Kale and Rebel Recipes

#BrunchGoals with DiscoverLeeks

Want to avoid the queues at your favourite cafe this weekend, but don’t want to miss out on brunch? Here at Discover Leeks, we think we may have the solution. With these amazing recipes, you can cook a show stopping brunch in the comfort of your own kitchen, better yet – you don’t even need to change out of your pyjamas! So, this weekend, be the envy of your friends and achieve #BrunchGoals from the sofa with one of these great recipes!

Five Surprising Sources of the Nutrients Vegans Could Be Missing out On

Some nutrients can be harder to get enough of in a vegan diet such as, calcium, vitamin A, iron, choline and vitamin B12. Although eggs, dairy and meat products are all common sources of these nutrients, there are some surprising vegan sources of each.

The Discover Great Veg Guide to Christmas

Our festive recipes are a great way to celebrate with family and friends. They are all quick to prepare so you have more time to relax and enjoy this special time of year.

Easy and Healthy Winter Warmer Recipes

Simple and speedy to cook, versatile and brimming with health benefits, cavolo nero, kale, spinach and leeks are the perfect ingredients for a whole host of warming winter recipes.

Bring a taste of autumn to your plate

The start of the new season brings a whole host of delicious autumnal flavours to your plate - from butternut squash, to sweet potato, carrots and bean - and of course kale and cavolo nero are both in season too.

How veg can help improve gut health

We don’t often discuss our gut health, with many of us considering it an embarrassing topic - but this week is Love Your Gut Week. So, we thought we’d take a look at the health benefits eating veg can have on gut health.

Discover our family favourites

Simple ways to help everyone get their 5-a-day

Pixie Turner’s Guide To Spinach

Have you ever wondered what makes leafy greens like spinach so super? Nutritionist Pixie Turner shares her tips and advice in her Guide To Spinach to help explain what makes spinach such a super veg!

The Wonders of Summer Eating

As we’re always advised to copy the Mediterranean way of life, it’s now our turn to make the most of a little sunshine. Take a look at our healthy options that are perfect for barbecues, lazy lunches or even picnics.

Discover what makes spinach so super

As we move into the summer months, spinach is a super seasonal veg that delivers on all counts – health, taste, convenience and versatility.

Mealtimes in the bag with cavolo nero

What can you make with a bag of cavolo nero? Answer - almost anything!

Got kale? We’ve got bags of ideas…

Looking for ways to cook with kale? We’ve got a stack of tasty but easy recipes to help you get the most out of your bag of kale.

Cooking with Cavolo Nero

We often get asked why we are such avid cavolo nero fans. So, in case you haven’t found the answer for yourself yet, here are just a few reasons why cavolo nero is our favourite veg.

Recipes to Bowl You Over

We’ve perfected four delicious recipes to bowl you over! Not only do they look great, but they taste great too!

Comfort food for autumn

It may be getting darker and cooler outside but that makes it the perfect time to get into the kitchen and try out our warming midweek supper and relaxed weekend recipes.

Breakfast with a Twist

Breakfast is our favourite meal of the day and many say, the most important too. With the lighter mornings and longer holidays for some, we’ve rounded up our favourite recipes for you to spend a little longer to enjoy.

Eat the Rainbow

The majority of us are familiar with the 5-a-day message, but eating a rainbow of fruit and vegetables is also important in order to get the right combination of fibre, vitamins, minerals and other nutrients.

Eating veggies doesn’t have to be boring…

Being the green veg fans that we are, we always like to find new ways to enjoy our favourite brassicas and during the summer months, one of those ways is to add it to a cocktail or smoothie.

Discover more ways to enjoy your veg

We may be bias, but we love veg and everything it has to offer! Not only is it delicious, but it’s also full of health benefits too. To celebrate all things veg, we’ve pulled together some easy recipes that include cavolo nero, leeks, spinach and kale. So whether it's breakfast time, lunchtime or dinner, it's easy to eat more veg.

Recipes for cavolo nero fans

If you're trying cavolo nero for the first time, then let us inspire you with our favourite cavolo nero recipes.