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Melissa’s new book *Feel Good*

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Hello, Melissa here! Please say hello to my new cookbook… FEEL GOOD :  100 quick and easy recipes to bring a bit of comfort and joy into our kitchens and beyond. Coming 2nd June 2022! FEEL GOOD  is all about exploring how food and cooking makes us feel. Comforted, connected, energised, calmer, grounded, satisfied and soothed and more. I’ve been so excited to share this with you, I’ve been squirreling away on it for the last 2 years and here it is. FEEL GOOD FOOD  is how I’ve long described how I like to cook end eat at home. More and more of us are cooking with both our mental and physical health in mind. So these are my favourite recipes that help me feel supported. Recipes that I turn to when I’m low on energy and want to feel brighter. Recipes that are so easy that they are a joy to cook and make me feel more confident. Food that helps me feel calmer and more grounded and big sharing recipes for when friends come over and I want to spoil them and show them love but also I want to
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Melissa’s 10 Soups for the Season

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  Soup season is upon us and it may just be my favourite time of the year. Hearty, comforting soups for any day of the week and thrown together in under 30 minutes; make double and freeze for a rainy day when you don’t feel like cooking. Soups are also such a brilliant way of reducing food waste in your home, making the most of sad looking veg or herbs that can be whizzed up in no time to something special for everyone at home. Here are 10 soups I think you’ll all really love this season… Coconut & Carrot Soup with Carrot Top Pesto This Spiced Coconut Carrot Soup with Carrot Top Pesto is a great way to love your veggies and minimise food waste in your home. If you can’t get carrot tops then use whatever greens need some love instead, such as radish tops, or left over spinach/mixed leaves from salad bags that you don’t know what to do with. Get the recipe Super Green Soup with Halloumi Croutons Halloumi Croutons & Super Green Soup in 30 minutes! Inspired b
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Melissa’s 10 Soups for the Season

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  Soup season is upon us and it may just be my favourite time of the year. Hearty, comforting soups for any day of the week and thrown together in under 30 minutes; make double and freeze for a rainy day when you don’t feel like cooking. Soups are also such a brilliant way of reducing food waste in your home, making the most of sad looking veg or herbs that can be whizzed up in no time to something special for everyone at home. Here are 10 soups I think you’ll all really love this season… Coconut & Carrot Soup with Carrot Top Pesto This Spiced Coconut Carrot Soup with Carrot Top Pesto is a great way to love your veggies and minimise food waste in your home. If you can’t get carrot tops then use whatever greens need some love instead, such as radish tops, or left over spinach/mixed leaves from salad bags that you don’t know what to do with. Get the recipe Super Green Soup with Halloumi Croutons Halloumi Croutons & Super Green Soup in 30 minutes! Inspired b
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Jasmine’s 7 Favourite Organic Pantry Staples

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Happy Organic September! Organic September is an initiative from the Soil Association , who work to raise awareness of the many benefits of consuming organic, whether that be food, farming, fashion or beauty. Supporting organic products goes a long way towards the long-term health of the planet and of our bodies, so I try to buy organic foods wherever I can, especially for the ingredients that I use the most in my kitchen. These are my faves. Duchy’s basmati rice I need to have basmati rice in the pantry at all times — it’s the basis of kitchari , my absolute go-to meal for breakfast, lunch or dinner, and plenty of other fave recipes too. White rice is much more digestible than brown rice, but Duchy’s do a brown basmati as well if that’s more your speed. Both are grown without artificial chemicals and fertilisers, and part of the sales benefit The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Foundation. Supermarket own-brand or farmers’ market organic eggs A few years ago, I judged the eggs fo
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Jasmine’s 7 Favourite Organic Pantry Staples

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Happy Organic September! Organic September is an initiative from the Soil Association , who work to raise awareness of the many benefits of consuming organic, whether that be food, farming, fashion or beauty. Supporting organic products goes a long way towards the long-term health of the planet and of our bodies, so I try to buy organic foods wherever I can, especially for the ingredients that I use the most in my kitchen. These are my faves. Duchy’s basmati rice I need to have basmati rice in the pantry at all times — it’s the basis of kitchari , my absolute go-to meal for breakfast, lunch or dinner, and plenty of other fave recipes too. White rice is much more digestible than brown rice, but Duchy’s do a brown basmati as well if that’s more your speed. Both are grown without artificial chemicals and fertilisers, and part of the sales benefit The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Foundation. Supermarket own-brand or farmers’ market organic eggs A few years ago, I judged the eggs fo
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