The Joy of
Healthy Eating

with Amelia Freer

Having a few simple pieces of kit can change the way you cook. Amelia reveals what not to buy and then takes you through the essentials, the nice-to-haves, and the investment pieces.

By breaking down some key knife skills Amelia shows how preparing vegetables and cooking from scratch doesn’t have to take a lot of time.

Amelia explains why vegetables are so key to our diets and reveals some simple tips as to how to eat more and make them delicious.

Amelia shows you step-by-step how to prepare a beautiful vegetable gratin.

In this lesson Amelia offers some simple ways to include fruit in your daily diets, as well as breaking down some of the myths surrounding the sugar contained in fruit.

Amelia shows you her technique for poaching fruit, and takes you through the recipe with poached pears.

By explaining how our bodies use protein Amelia lays out some simple, useful ways to include it in our diets.

A delicious, simple recipe, that can be adjusted in numerous ways depending on which flavour you want.

Amelia breaks down some of the different types of carbohydrate, and explains why wholegrains are more nutritious than those that are refined.

Amelia takes us through a delicious gnocchi recipe, step-by-step.

Fat is a complex area, often associated with health and weight problems. Amelia takes us through the different types of fats, as well as which ones you should try to include in your diet.

A simple, satisfying recipe.

Amelia lays out how our digestive system works.

Amelia shows you precisely how to build a healthy, balanced plate of food from a few key ingredients (or leftovers) so you can assemble a nourishing meal from an infinite combination of ingredients. 

Amelia provides some simple techniques to understand where you get your key nutrients from when on a plant-based diet.

The question Amelia gets asked the most in her nutritional practice is “What supplements should I take?” In this lesson, Amelia takes you through some of the basics of supplementing, and explains that unless for specific dietary needs it is often no replacement for a simple, healthy diet.

Batch cooking can be the solution to your lack of time, and Amelia lays out her favourite techniques and shares some of her favourite recipes.

Amelia explains how often it is the emotional attachment to food that prevents us from choosing to eat healthily rather than simply a lack of knowledge. In this lesson, she encourages you to become more aware of the emotion surrounding food so that you’re able to make good, positive decisions.

Amelia encourages you to find the joy in healthy eating, and explains that when joy and healthy food meet, that’s where sustainable change can happen.

In this lesson, Amelia explains that creating new habits is a challenge, and that there are no “quick fixes”. Amelia encourages you that just because making these changes is difficult and may involve moments of frustration, it doesn’t mean it is unachievable.

Amelia wraps up by encouraging you to understand that healthy eating is one part of healthy living.