Deliciously Ella How To Go Plant-Based: A Definitive Guide For You and Your Family

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How to Go Plant-Based is not just filled with family-friendly recipes, it’s also a practical guide incorporating Ella’s own journey, alongside scientific research and data, plus insights and information from plant-based experts, including doctors and nutritionists. Ella debunks the common myths surrounding eating a plant-based diet, shares her experiences of cooking for her family and emphasises the importance of making a plant-based diet accessible to everyone – for health, wellbeing, and the planet. She still follows a plant-based diet. It works for her. She certainly looks healthy: slim but not skinny. She doesn’t think everyone needs to go plant-based, indeed what she loves about the phrase is literally the word “based”. Her children she states are the most important thing in the world for her, so it is not without some thought that she works long days and ­frequent weekends.

Photo: Courtesy of Deliciously Ella/ @deliciouslyella Make Hearty Meals at Home—Especially at NightIndeed it’s her research that has made her understand why as humans we’re wired to have a negativity bias – a cognitive bias that results in adverse events having a more significant impact on our psychological state than positive events. Plant-based refers to a diet rich in simple, natural, wholefood ingredients such as beans, nuts, seeds, fruits and vegetables. It’s a diet rather than a lifestyle. [Whereas] the term vegan has ethical origins and refers to the way you live your life way beyond what’s on your plate. But I was so young. I was an absolute baby and it was really challenging on a personal level. And I think you can’t move past the fact that everyone in the firing line was a woman – and a young one, and equally had a message which from a public health perspective we need and that the government is completely ignoring.” She would never have said things like that in the past “because I would have been scared of making people think I’m telling them what to do. Now I think, ‘Here’s the information and you can do with it what suits you.’”After 2017 she admits she did retract and became “quite vanilla” for fear of saying anything. Despite the increasing number of people moving towards a plant-based diet, there are no clear, evidence-based mainstream books to help anyone looking to adopt this way of eating – either for themselves, or for their family. It can be overwhelming to switch to a plant-based diet, and you may have no idea where to start. Thankfully Ella Mills and her team at deliciously ella have done all the research for you. This book demystifies going plant-based, making it as easy, clear and delicious as possible, and features 100 new recipes to get you started on your plant-based journey.

Listening to the experts is exactly what Mills has been doing. In 2020 she started a four-year degree at the Institute for Optimum Nutrition. No stranger to sceptics, Mills is focused on making sure that the facts in the book are correct. "This is up-to-date, relevant, statistically correct information that I'm getting because I think there's still a nervousness that wellness and wellbeing can be a bit woo woo and wishy-washy. And I wanted to make sure that that was not the case at all, that it was interesting and inspiring, but equally very robust," she says.Regarding what she hopes people take away from her book, Ella said: “If people take one thing away, it’s that it doesn’t have to be all or nothing. It’s not a diet, it’s not a three-day thing, it’s just gently improving your health for the next few decades. It’s just more veg, more simple food.”