Two essentials for weekly Winter food prep!

Food prep is pretty much an essential part of enabling us to eat well! The thought can seem overwhelming, but it’ll save you so much time in the long run and once it becomes part of your weekly routine you’ll forget why you put off doing it up until now.

Throughout Autumn/ Winter I find myself making weekly soup/stew and a different salad which I can pair with protein and carbs (depending on what salad is) to make a really quick easy meal throughout the week.

Here’s my go to soup base and slaw recipes:

Soup Base

1x onion finely diced

1-2 cloves garlic

2 sticks celery

1 tsp stock or stock cube/ bouillon for veggie I like 9 Meals of Anarchy or non veggie homemade bone broth or Ossa Organic

Either:

base veg - think root veg, peas, aubergine etc

or tin tomatoes

or lentils

Water

Spices/herbs of choice!

  1. Sautee the onions, garlic and celery with a small amount of coconut oil butter until soft and translucent, pop the lid on your pan to speed up the process

  2. Add your base veg or lentils and stock, cover with water, bring to the boil until veg if soft

  3. Add in your additional flavours to make your soup sing!

  4. Either blend (you may need to add in extra water to get your desired consistency) if you want a smooth soup or leave chunky if that’s what you prefer

  5. Flavours for my soup this week was a curried sweet potato with some chopped spring greens for a bit of texture. I used some turmeric, cumin, coriander and ginger, as well as coconut to thin at the end instead of extra water.

Basic Slaw Recipe

Half a red cabbage

2 carrots

2 spring onions

generous sprinkle of pumpkin seeds or seed nut of choice

Approx 2 tbsp Mayo - I like Hunter and Gather for seed oil free (they do with/without egg options)

Approx 1 tbspExtra virgin olive oil

Approx 1 tbsp Apple cider vinegar

Optional chilli flakes

Salt and pepper

  1. Finely slice cabbage and spring onions

  2. Grate carrot

  3. Mix together and add pumpkin seeds

  4. Mix liquids and massage through, until everything is well coated

  5. Season to taste

    So many options here to introduce different veg and flavours!

Ella Cheeseman