Awaken the sense of you by focusing on your health and wellbeing with more vegetarian options in your diet. Why not start by setting aside a meat-free day.
In the third of our meat-free days, we give you another reason to add more vegetarian options to your diet – living longer. And the mushroom soup will banish winter from your dinning room.
Live Longer
Choosing to add more vegetarian options will allow you to live longer. Poor eating habits are nearly as bad for you as smoking, with research showing that diet plays a factor in 70% of fatal diseases.
Vegetarians, on average, live seven years longer and vegans double that over meat eaters. This is because diets high in fruit, vegetables, whole grains, legumes and nuts reduces the risks of high cholesterol, heart ailments, strokes, obesity, gallstones and diseases such as cancer, osteoporosis, diabetes, hypertension and arthritis.
It Ain’t Boring
So if you want to live a longer, more enjoyable life we urge you to slowly start including more vegetarian options in your diet. And who said it’s boring, as this delectable soup will show.
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Mushroom Soup (serves 2 as main course) Ingredients o Handful of dried porcini mushrooms, soaked in small dish boiling water o Olive oil o 600g mixed mushrooms, sliced o 10ml crushed garlic o 3 leeks or one large onion, finely chopped o 50g butter o handful of fresh thyme leaves o 1 litre organic vegetable stock o salt and pepper to taste o handful fresh parsley, chopped o 50ml mascarpone cheese or thick cream o squeeze of lemon juice o French loaf Method o Coat the bottom of a frying pan with the olive oil and fry the mushrooms for a minute over a high heat. o Add garlic, onion, butter and thyme and fry for another minute. o Chop half porcini mushrooms (leaving rest whole) and add. o Lower heat and cook for about 15-20 minutes until most of liquid has disappeared. o Add stock and seasoning and cook for another 20 minutes. o Puree half the soup in a blender and return to pan with the mascarpone and parsley. Stir in with twist of lemon juice. o Serve with toasted slices French loaf. |
