Are you and your loved ones are getting all the nutrients you need on a plant-based diet? Are you concerned about protein, iron, and/or calcium? Join Brigitte Gemme in this free webinar where she’ll guide you through the essentials of composing nutritious, balanced vegan meals and meal plans. Bringing together everything you need for optimal health is easier than you think! Whether you’re concerned about protein, iron, or calcium, this session is designed to address your worries with practical, easy-to-follow advice. What you’ll learn: Do plant-based eaters need more protein? How much? What a ..read more

After months of brainstorming, consulting, and planning, I am finally starting to record my new course: Plan, Prep, and Relax: Plant-Based Batch Cooking for Busy Beginners The simple strategy you need for healthy, stress-free weeknights. Get on the waitlist! We start in June 2024. ? Building Block Basics: Dive into the foundations of healthy vegan meal planning and batch cooking. ? Demystifying Cookery: Learn the secret structure behind the most common easy healthy vegan dishes and practice. ? Cook-Along Videos: Practice with four step-by-step pre-recorded batch cooking videos. Follow along a ..read more

Subscribe to my premium newsletter 100 Days of Flow in the Kitchen and spend just one minute each day learning about plant-based cooking and nutrition. It doesn’t get easier than that! Each of the 100 short daily email messages will nudge you into the direction of: Cooking more wholesome plant-based meals at home Shifting your mindset to experience more joy in the kitchen (even if you hate cooking!) Practicing basic freestyle cooking moves Getting organized with tiny upgrades to your kitchen and meal planning setups Effortlessly learning important facts about healthy vegan nutrition and ingre ..read more

Cooking club changes lives. We get together to cook some healthy vegan building blocks that will form the base of our weekday meals. In so doing, we find nourishment for our bodies and souls. When you sign up for cooking club, you get: Structure: Leave batch cooking to chance, and chances are… it won’t happen! When you join the Healthy Vegan Batch Cooking Club, it’s now on your schedule. It happens at a specific, predictable time. And you show up. Motivation: Even if you don’t like cooking, it’s fun to spend an hour or two doing something productive and meaningful with a group of people who a ..read more

When cooking for one or two people, mustering the motivation to cook healthy tasty meals can be a struggle. You might end up stuck in a rut, eating only a few different meals and even missing the mark on your nutrition targets. This free Zoom workshop will empower you with practical strategies and tips to transform your weekly habits. We’ll talk about: Strategies to hit the sweet spot between diversity and simplicity Tips to reduce food costs and waste Boosting your vitality and energy with nutrient-rich dishes Using slow cookers and Instant Pots to streamline batch cooking How to find joy in ..read more

What does picky eating have to do with attachment, survival, and trust? Let’s talk about it with Deborah MacNamara, a counsellor and expert in family relationships. In this episode of the Vegan Family Kitchen Podcast, we discuss how food is way more than what we put in our mouth! It’s connected to attachment and deeply involved in how we form relationships with each other, starting in infancy with our parents and other adult caregivers. Deborah discusses her experiences with helping adults make sense of their relationships with food and children, giving insights on treating food issues th ..read more

How to cook tofu so it tastes good? In North America, there’s wide misunderstanding about – and even prejudice against! – this classic vegan food gifted to the world by Asian makers two thousand years ago. Let’s clear the air and make room for more tofu in our kitchens. In this article, I will cover some key questions about tofu: how tofu is made, what are tofu’s benefits for plant-based cooks, the different kinds of tofu and how to use them, and suggestions to include tofu in both batch cooking sessions and quick meals. Be warned: some of my opinions about tofu are controversial. My tofu love ..read more

This guide to vegan cooking for beginners will help you add more plant-based, healthy vegan meals into your rotation. It is meant for people who already know how to cook enough to follow a recipe, but need a boost of confidence when it comes to turning plants into dinner. If you think you will never be vegan, I hear you and understand you. And I’m not even going to ask you to change. I was an unlikely vegan myself. I hardly knew vegetarians even existed until my late teens. When I started making money as a young adult I would splurge on fancy cheeses. As someone who was born to farmers, I thou ..read more

Do you feel reasonably comfortable cooking omnivore or vegetarian dinners every night, but healthy vegan, plant-based cooking intimidates you? This free talk and Q&A will give you tools to get started with more confidence and less stress. In this one hour live talk and Q&A on Zoom, you will learn about: How to compose a nutritious, flavorful, and satisfying healthy vegan meal Strategies to reduce stress when introducing more plant-based meals into your weekly menus Common mistakes when transitioning to plant-based cooking and how to avoid them Gentle ways to deal with selective eaters ..read more

Learn about plant-based baking from the professionals! In this episode of the Vegan Family Kitchen Podcast, Brigitte Gemme interviews Natasha and Ed Tatton, owners of Whistler’s BReD Bakery and authors of the newly published book BReD: Sourdough Loaves, Small Breads and Other Plant-Based Baking. We talk about: Replacing dairy and eggs with whole plant ingredients (no need for the middle bird!) Natasha and Ed’s separate journeys toward veganism How the sourdough business grew organically Learn to sprout grains Hear business tips from seasoned bakery owners! Learn more and buy the book (inclu ..read more