Hi there,

Welcome to The Life Larder! This weekly newsletter serves up a bite-sized menu of stories and ideas about making food that’s not only delicious but also healthy and sustainable.

Each issue is packed with inspiring articles, flavourful ideas, and voices from across the vibrant food world. Think of me as your friendly guide, helping you create meals that nourish your body, delight your taste buds, and care for our planet. Treat this newsletter like a personal larder—always stocked with something you’ll love.

Happy Valentines! This issue is all about food that love us back; those ingredients that we traditionally associate with Feb 14th and how they can really support our health. There’s also a beany recipe to celebrate World Pulses Day which happened earlier this week. I hope this week’s Life Larder leaves you feeling loved and nourished.

Bites

The most enjoyable food stories and insights that I’ve read this week

• Grow your own beans this World Pulse Day

• Why you should give Radicchio not Roses today

• A lovely long read about one of our most magical foods Yorkshire rhubarb

Main Menu

Stories and insights from experts and yours truly

Food that loves you back.

Self love, one bite at a time.

Every time we eat we have the power to give love and nourishment to our bodies. What we chose to put in day after day really does make a difference to our health and our happiness.

On Valentines, I wanted to focus on those foods that we classically reach for when we think of love, and explore how they can nourish our bodies, boost our moods, and, in some cases, even support our planet. These are foods that love you back, bite for bite.

Black Bean Burgers, Zero Waste Salsa

To celebrate world pulses day this week, here’s my fave bean burger recipe.

Beans are my bag. Fantastic for nourishing the soil, being great for our health (proteins, micronutrients, you name it they have it in abundance) and being kind on our wallets, they are a food that should be on rotation in our kitchens each week. You can freeze these burgers (place a piece of baking paper in-between each one) so batch them and have them ready to go from frozen when you’re strapped for time.