Kitchen Tips & Tricks

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Help! I'm a new cook and need assistance in the kitchen.

If you're new to cooking and eating a whole-food, plant-based diet, no worries! You may find these cooking tips helpful. This kitchen prep advice may also get you on the right track toward preparing…

Updated by India McCormick

What foods should I have in my kitchen and pantry?

Having a well-stocked kitchen and pantry with basic staples can go a long way making sure you'll have what you need for a recipe or meal more often than not. These 22 healthy food options are suggest…

Updated by India McCormick

Do I need to prepare all of the meals on the weekend?

Our weekend prep guide provides you with instructions on how to prepare the more time consuming steps ahead of time (boiling rice, baking potatoes etc.) so that on the day you make the final recipe,…

Updated by India McCormick

How can I save even more time in the kitchen?

Our Culinary Director, Chef Darshana, put together a few handy tips for you that will save you hours in the kitchen. Plan ahead and use the weekend prep cheat sheets. The time you take to prepare foo…

Updated by India McCormick

Do I need a blender/food processor to follow the plan? What is the difference?

To get the most out of the Planner, it helps to have at least a food processor, blender, or an immersion blender, but if you don’t have any of these you can work around it by swapping out recipes tha…

Updated by India McCormick

Do you offer Instant Pot options?

Though many of our recipes would work well in an Instant Pot, we do not have optimized Instant Pot instructions for recipes at this time. We are currently working on adding this option. In the meanti…

Updated by India McCormick

How can I keep fruit and vegetables fresh for longer?

While you can keep produce in the crisper drawer of the fridge, we recommend purchasing Rubbermaid FreshWorks Containers , Bluapples , or Vejibags to store your produce in. While they are an investme…

Updated by India McCormick

What is Weekend Prep?

The optional Weekend Prep feature helps you get everything ready for the week ahead, with the goal of decreasing the time you're making/cooking meals during the weekdays. This feature guides you thro…

Updated by Steven Todd Smith

Are the recipe cook/prep times accurate?

Listed recipe times are estimates of how long a recipe would take provided the Weekend Prep tasks are already prepared. All recipe cook time estimations are based on a default setting of 1 full porti…

Updated by India McCormick

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