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Christmas 2018 PLANT-BASED by popular demand***

COOKING FOR VEGGIE OR VEGAN GUESTS can be daunting for the host and often disappointing for the guest. To help you turn humble plant-based ingredients into something special, Healthy Food Guide turned to the experts at healthy recipe box company Mindful Chef. We asked them to create a fabulous centrepiece around a roasted whole cauliflower, one of the biggest veggie trends of this year.

The brief might sound simple – it needed to be festive, easy, relatively speedy and delicious – but it’s a hard one to pull off successfully unless you have years of experience. However, the three founders behind the company, old schoolfriends Myles, Giles and Rob, do know a thing or two about delivering (literally) all these elements. Since it launched in 2015, Mindful Chef has delivered over one million recipes around the UK. With a menu that changes weekly, that has meant developing 500 recipes so far, a third of which are vegan.

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