The best conversations are had in the kitchen. The Vegan Family Kitchen Podcast features conversations with inspiring guests who have knowledge and stories to share about plant-based cooking and nutrition, lifestyle medicine, planetary health, and vegan living. Brigitte also shares useful content from her blog, such as her articles about iron and calcium for vegans, tips for late-blooming vegans who have non-vegan family members, mindset shifts for better habits, and mindful ways of living.

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How to store groceries to reduce food waste and cook faster

How to store groceries to reduce food waste and cook faster

Most people could cook faster, waste less money and time, and be less stressed if they handled their grocery haul differently. How should you store groceries to reduce waste and make cooking faster? Try these four strategies and share yours in the comments. Clear your...

Learn Veganic Gardening with Meg Kelly (podcast)

Learn Veganic Gardening with Meg Kelly (podcast)

Veganic gardening is an approach to growing plants organically without animal inputs. In other words: plant-based gardening! If you already have a garden, listen in to learn from Meg Kelly how to transition to a kinder and safer approach. If you don't already grow...

Healthy Vegan Italian Cooking: A Conversation with Antonia Ricciardi

Healthy Vegan Italian Cooking: A Conversation with Antonia Ricciardi

Get inspired to cook more healthy vegan Italian food with Antonia Ricciardi, a private chef based in Cambridge UK. Antonia trained in physics and worked in the publishing industry, but her roots in the family restaurant in Southern Italy stayed strong. In our podcast...

Book launch: Flow in the Kitchen coming out on November 15th, 2022

Book launch: Flow in the Kitchen coming out on November 15th, 2022

Flow in the Kitchen: Practices for Healthy Stress-Free Vegan Cooking is not a cookbook. Cookbooks can be useful and beautiful… but they don’t make us cook. Who hasn’t ordered ready-made meals instead of cooking at home, despite having lots of cookbooks, a fridge full...

Iron for vegans: my views as a meal planner, woman, and mother

Iron for vegans: my views as a meal planner, woman, and mother

Iron for vegans and plant-based eaters: should we be worried? Iron is a common concern of well-meaning friends and relatives, upon learning that a loved one is going vegan or committing to eating more plants (and fewer animals). Since most people still think of meat...

Dinner ideas for picky eaters: what’s wrong with plain pasta?

Dinner ideas for picky eaters: what’s wrong with plain pasta?

I often get asked for dinner ideas for picky eaters or "good vegan food for kids." I disagree that there is any kind of specifically kid-friendly plant-based food, because every family has its own food history and different styles of cooking and foods will work best...

Wean yourself off meal kits with meal plans

Wean yourself off meal kits with meal plans

Meal kits take the entire mental load and most of the physical load off cooking a meal: you choose your meal from a restricted menu of options, and all the ingredients and directions come to you in a neatly packaged boxed, pre-portioned and ready to be turned into...

Are CSA boxes worth it? Read this before you subscribe.

Are CSA boxes worth it? Read this before you subscribe.

For the past 10 years, I have been an on and off subscriber of veggie boxes via a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) scheme or another. Yet again this winter, I ask myself: should I sign up for a CSA box this year? Are CSA boxes worth it? The answer isn't...

Can dogs be plant-based? A interview with Laura Simonson of Virchew

Can dogs be plant-based? A interview with Laura Simonson of Virchew

About a third of American and Canadian households have a dog, and the numbers have grown since the beginning of the pandemic. My own household does not include tail-wagging friends, but I know dogs are part of the family for many. So what do they all eat? Can dogs be...

Why you hate cooking (and what you can do about it)

Why you hate cooking (and what you can do about it)

When I ask people what stops them from cooking more healthy meals from scratch at home, I often hear some version of the following: "I hate cooking!" "Cooking feels like a waste of my time." "I'm sick of making dinner." "Why is it always me who's expected to know...

6 big reasons to be grateful (not resentful) when cooking

6 big reasons to be grateful (not resentful) when cooking

Many of us, myself included, can occasionally feel resentful when it comes time to prepare dinner. "Why me (again)?" "Didn't I just feed you?" "Cooking takes too long!" "I'm sick of cleaning up after meals." "Oh! Ungrateful hordes of hungry picky little monsters." I'm...

How to start batch cooking (with 20 vegan batch cooking recipes!)

How to start batch cooking (with 20 vegan batch cooking recipes!)

Batch cooking changes lives... it really does! In fact, vegan batch cooking probably also SAVES lives. Why? Because when you've got a meal all ready to eat in the fridge or freezer, you're much less likely to eat unhealthy processed or delivery food (saves human...

Dreena Burton’s 20 years as a vegan cookbook author and parent

Dreena Burton’s 20 years as a vegan cookbook author and parent

Dreena Burton has published six vegan cookbooks and raised three children in 20 years. That elevates her to superhero status to me. Her recipes take nutrition, appeal, and ease into consideration all at the same time, and she keeps on showing up to inspire us with...

“My wife is going vegan!” Now what? An interview with my husband

“My wife is going vegan!” Now what? An interview with my husband

When one spouse - often the wife - is going vegan but the other one isn't there yet, what happens? I have told my own transition story from meat lover to ethical vegan and plant-based eating advocate a few times, including along with some tips for late-blooming vegans...

Why quit coffee? 10 years into a personal experiment

Why quit coffee? 10 years into a personal experiment

In April 2011, I quit drinking coffee. This was an unexpected move for me because I loved coffee. Back in the mid-1990s, I had a blog and many posts were about the art and pleasure of coffee making and drinking. My espresso machine was my most beloved appliance. I...

5 urgent (and easy!) eco-friendly eating habits to adopt today

5 urgent (and easy!) eco-friendly eating habits to adopt today

What happens roughly 24 billion times per day on Earth? Humans having a meal. About a third of all of the resources we extract or use from the planet are funneled toward our insatiable appetites. If we are to continue living together on this planet for a little...