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Midweek Meals for under £2pp

Quick & Simple Wholesome Summer Suppers

Embrace Winter Wellness With Our Warming Recipes

Nutritionist Sarah Jones' top 5 tips on plant-based eating

Whether you’re eating less meat for health or environmental factors it’s important that a plant-based diet is balanced enough to give you and your family the essential nutrients you need.

How what we eat can help protect our eyes

A review of age-related macular degeneration and diet, with tips on how to include more lutein rich greens in your meals.

Recipe Ideas for your Jubilee Celebrations

The Queen's Platinum Jubilee is just around the corner, so here are some of our favourite party snacks to help you get ready for the celebrations.

Easy Weekday Meal Ideas for Vegetarian Week

To celebrate National Vegetarian Week, here are four of our favourite vegetarian dishes.

Delicious Easter Recipes to enjoy with Friends and Family

All our Easter favourites, from lamb to chocolate.

Six Tasty Ways to Celebrate the Start of Spring

To mark the new season we’ve shared some of our favourite recipes to enjoy with the family this spring.

Go Green with these recipe ideas from Nadia's Healthy Kitchen

To show you just how easy it is to Go Green, we’ve teamed up with Nadia’s Healthy Kitchen to share three delicious recipes that are sure to tempt your taste buds! The recipes below are all healthy and full of flavour, which anyone can make at home using easy to find ingredients.

What’s in a bag of cavolo nero?

We all know eating vegetables is good for us – and cavolo nero is no exception – in fact it’s often referred to as a super green (super healthy, super tasty, super versatile!) But do you know exactly what nutrients in particular you will find in a bag of cavolo nero?

Nutritionist Pixie Turner’s Top Reasons to ‘Go Green’ This Summer

Leafy greens contain nutrients which can help look after skin and bones, as well as support normal immune function and heart health and Discover Great Veg Nutritionist Pixie Turner has shared her top five reasons why we should all enjoy more of the veg.

Go meat-free with these veggie recipe ideas

As this week is National Vegetarian Week, we've rounded-up our favourite meat-free dishes to ensure your week is full of tasty veggie inspiration.

Go Green at lunchtime with these tasty recipes

We’ve rounded up some of our top lunch recipes featuring our favourite vegetables – cavolo nero, spinach and kale, including two new exclusive recipes from our friends Cupful of Kale and Rebel Recipes

Five Surprising Sources of the Nutrients Vegans Could Be Missing out On

Some nutrients can be harder to get enough of in a vegan diet such as, calcium, vitamin A, iron, choline and vitamin B12. Although eggs, dairy and meat products are all common sources of these nutrients, there are some surprising vegan sources of each.

The Discover Great Veg Guide to Christmas

Our festive recipes are a great way to celebrate with family and friends. They are all quick to prepare so you have more time to relax and enjoy this special time of year.

Easy and Healthy Winter Warmer Recipes

Simple and speedy to cook, versatile and brimming with health benefits, cavolo nero, kale, spinach and leeks are the perfect ingredients for a whole host of warming winter recipes.

Bring a taste of autumn to your plate

The start of the new season brings a whole host of delicious autumnal flavours to your plate - from butternut squash, to sweet potato, carrots and bean - and of course kale and cavolo nero are both in season too.

How veg can help improve gut health

We don’t often discuss our gut health, with many of us considering it an embarrassing topic - but this week is Love Your Gut Week. So, we thought we’d take a look at the health benefits eating veg can have on gut health.

Discover our family favourites

Simple ways to help everyone get their 5-a-day

The Wonders of Summer Eating

As we’re always advised to copy the Mediterranean way of life, it’s now our turn to make the most of a little sunshine. Take a look at our healthy options that are perfect for barbecues, lazy lunches or even picnics.

Mealtimes in the bag with cavolo nero

What can you make with a bag of cavolo nero? Answer - almost anything!

Cooking with Cavolo Nero

We often get asked why we are such avid cavolo nero fans. So, in case you haven’t found the answer for yourself yet, here are just a few reasons why cavolo nero is our favourite veg.

Recipes to Bowl You Over

We’ve perfected four delicious recipes to bowl you over! Not only do they look great, but they taste great too!

Comfort food for autumn

It may be getting darker and cooler outside but that makes it the perfect time to get into the kitchen and try out our warming midweek supper and relaxed weekend recipes.

Breakfast with a Twist

Breakfast is our favourite meal of the day and many say, the most important too. With the lighter mornings and longer holidays for some, we’ve rounded up our favourite recipes for you to spend a little longer to enjoy.

Eat the Rainbow

The majority of us are familiar with the 5-a-day message, but eating a rainbow of fruit and vegetables is also important in order to get the right combination of fibre, vitamins, minerals and other nutrients.

Eating veggies doesn’t have to be boring…

Being the green veg fans that we are, we always like to find new ways to enjoy our favourite brassicas and during the summer months, one of those ways is to add it to a cocktail or smoothie.

Discover more ways to enjoy your veg

We may be bias, but we love veg and everything it has to offer! Not only is it delicious, but it’s also full of health benefits too. To celebrate all things veg, we’ve pulled together some easy recipes that include cavolo nero, leeks, spinach and kale. So whether it's breakfast time, lunchtime or dinner, it's easy to eat more veg.

Recipes for cavolo nero fans

If you're trying cavolo nero for the first time, then let us inspire you with our favourite cavolo nero recipes.

Bank Holiday Recipes

If you want to enjoy great food over the weekend, but spend little time in the kitchen, then take advantage of these tasty recipes that are simple, quick and enjoyable for all.

Our Favourite Veggie Recipes

We've put together some of our favourite vegetarian recipes for you to enjoy from lunch to dinner and drinks and sides!

Inspiring Easter Recipes from our Foodie Faves

With Easter just around the corner, we’ve been getting inspired by some great recipes that include our hero vegetables.
These are simple to make, so you can enjoy the extra time with your friends and family this Easter Sunday.

Spring on the Veg!

Our favourite season of transition has begun. Not only does spring radiate new life and growth, but it also brings sunnier days and longer evenings – hurrah! What better way to celebrate than to create some new dishes to add to your at-home menu.

Cavolo Nero - it's quite the handful!

It’s the trendy green that’s on everyone’s lips! If you haven’t discovered cavolo nero yet, you’re missing out…

Did you know that by adding a handful of cavolo nero to your favourite dishes you’ll be boosting it with vitamins A, C & K, not to mention great colour and taste!

Something for the veg lovers this Christmas

Christmas may be a time to indulge ourselves but it is also a time to make the most of all the vegetables that are in season – like cavolo nero. This deliciously versatile brassica isn’t just a perfect accompaniment for a host of festive meals, it also makes a scrumptious and unusual addition to the Christmas Pudding.

Baking with veg

We have teamed up with leading food blogger and author Kate Hackworthy of Veggie Desserts to create some delicious new ways to enjoy our favourite veg – cavolo nero, kale and spinach!

Global cuisines

We’re lucky to live in a world that’s full of rich and diverse cuisines. Each and every country has its own unique flavours and ingredients, so we wanted to take advantage of this and showcase some of our more exotic recipes.

Eat your way to better eye health

Carrots may not help you see in the dark, but cavolo nero, kale and spinach can help to protect the eyes from macular disease, one of the leading causes of sight loss

Powerhouse healthy food pairings

We all know that some foods taste better together – from a splash of dressing on a salad, to the carefully crafted concoction that is your favourite pre or post workout morning smoothie - but did you know that by eating certain foods together you can actually make them healthier too?

5 Reasons to Love Cavolo Nero

If you’ve not discovered cavolo nero yet, you’re missing out! There are so many reasons to love cavolo nero but we’ve picked our top five to share with you...

Vegetarian recipes everyone will enjoy

Looking for a great tasting vegetarian dishes? Well, you’ve certainly come to the right place because we’ve got a great selection of recipes using cavolo nero, leeks, kale and spinach. Whether you love a Japanese cuisine, or you’ve got a soft spot for Italian food these recipes are sure to whet your appetite!

Cavolo Nero & Kale Food Pairing

Renowned cookery writer, Rosemary Moon is an expert in perfecting food pairings for optimum flavour and here she’s given us her favourite combinations for kale and cavolo nero. You may already know what some of these tasty combinations, but others may take you by surprise!

Romantic Meals for Two

From the beautiful countryside of Tuscany, to the ancient buildings and streets of Rome and Florence, Italy is one of the most romantic countries and the where the story began for one of our favourite veggies, cavolo nero!

Transport yourself and your loved one to Italy for an evening with our cavolo nero inspired Italian recipes, for meals that are perfect for cooking and enjoying together.

Feed the Family for Under £10

Feeling the pinch this month after the big Christmas spend but hate the idea of boring meals just to save a little money? Us too! That’s why we’ve put together a selection of cavolo nero and kale recipes for the family, for under £10 which don’t comprise on taste and are really easy to make! From a veggie stir-fry and potato cakes to kale chilli, these dishes are not only great value and healthy but full of flavour too.

Go Green with Cavolo Nero

October 1st marks World Vegetarian Day, a day where we celebrate all things veggie! This day was started way back in 1978, and was created to help educate people about the benefits of a vegetarian diet, not only for the protection of animals and to help preserve the earth, but for the positive effect it can have on your health too! Here at Discover Cavolo Nero we love all things veg related, so we want to show you just how tasty and varied a veggie diet can be.