Plant-based eating helped Ella Mills beat POTS – her new cookbook features simple recipes that take no more than 30 minutes and 10 ingredients to prepare
- Ella Mills’ new cookbook ‘Healthy Made Simple’ features 75 plant-based recipes that find ‘the sweet spot’ between taste and preparation effort
- Diagnosed with postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS) at 21, she overhauled her diet and was able to wean herself off medicines
Ella Mills knows we all want to eat healthier. But the English food writer and businesswoman also knows we’re busy and we want everything to taste good. And she understands many of us are nervous about the idea of committing to no meat.
“I know I used to think eating this way would be just like nibbling on sad and soggy carrots and rabbit food all day long,” she says. “But you suddenly start cooking and you realise it’s actually super-flavoursome and textured and interesting and just not what you thought it was.”
Mills is ready to guide us as through this with a line of healthy products and her latest cookbook, Healthy Made Simple, featuring over 75 plant-based recipes, from lemony pea and broccoli pasta to a creamy leek, spinach and butter bean bowl.
“It’s about taking these familiar ingredients that are often seen as a little bit bland, a little bit boring, and trying to give them gentle twists, to make them feel really exciting and rejuvenated,” she says.
Healthy Made Simple contains dishes Mills eats at home with her husband and two young children. She aims to have the recipes take less than 30 minutes to make, use no more than five simple steps, and need 10 ingredients or less.