Plant-based food could be the key to a sustainable and ethical lifestyle – chef Day Radley makes it easy

After battling anaemia, anorexia and bulimia, it was veganism that helped chef Day Radley overcome her troubled relationship with food. And it’s now her passion to teach others how to make delicious plant-based meals with her school and courses. Not only does she aim to make veganism more mainstream, but she wants to help people in the process. We caught up with her to find out more.

Changing to a plant-based diet shifted my relationship with food. I paid more attention to it, learnt more about it and I came to realise how beautiful it can be. The anaemia went away pretty quickly, despite the fact that I was living on Linda McCartney sausages for several years! My eating disorders were more difficult to overcome, and I only really went into recovery in my early 30s. The realisation that I had to be healthy, so that I could help end animal suffering, triggered that recovery. I needed a reason outside of myself to end my pattern of chaotic eating, and veganism gave me that reason.