Cookbook

Be Good: Plant-Based Recipes For Everybody

Over 100 plant-based recipes to tantalise your taste buds and warm your heart. As the founder of Be Good Organics, New Zealand’s top food blog and the biggest plant-based recipe site in Australasia, Buffy has finally after 10 years released her very own cookbook for you to own. If you love Buffy’s recipes, or just want to eat more plant-based – this book is for you!

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Whether you’re trying plant-based food for the first time, or are a seasoned plant eater, I’ve written this book for you. Inside you’ll find my most treasured plant-based recipes, the best of my adventures in cooking over the past 10 years. Delicious, healthy, easy plant-based food that you can make every day.

What am I envisaging? You, gliding across the plant-based plains, like an elegant gazelle bounding over the Saharan desert. Light, effortless, and with me holding your hand every step of the way.

Oh, and by the way, the food is tasty too.

I can’t wait to see the recipes you make from it!

x Buffy Ellen

What They’re Saying

I have always been so impressed with Buffy’s impeccable style and incredible passion to share her holistic medical knowledge. Thankfully, Buffy now shares her secrets with her scrumptious plant-based recipes. They are both stylish and imaginative with absolutely no sacrifice on flavour.

SIMON GAULT

AWARD-WINNING CHEF AND CO-FOUNDER OF 4 WHEELS OF HEALTH

Be Good is a wonderful blend of evidence-based nutrition, helpful and practical tips, and appetising recipes. This is the friendly introduction to plant-based living you and your family have been waiting for!

DR LUKE WILSON, MBCHB, BA, MSC

LIFESTYLE MEDICINE DOCTOR

In Be Good, Buffy explains why the science shows we must adopt a whole foods plant based diet, and the how of what to eat, what nutrients to give attention to, and what and how to make it. From simple snacks and healthy treats to beautifully presented options for every meal of the day, Be Good has everything to get you started and keep you going when moving towards a plant based diet and lifestyle.

DR MARK CRAIG, FRNZCGP, MRCGP, MRCS, IBLM, MBCHB, BSC

LIFESTYLE MEDICINE AND GENERAL PRACTITIONER MEDICAL DOCTOR

A stunning guidebook to plant-based eating, with beautiful recipes that can be enjoyed by everyone!

DR ALAN DESMOND

GASTROENTEROLOGIST AND AUTHOR OF THE PLANT-BASED DIET REVOLUTION

Need a wise, caring and clever friend to help make eating goodness easy? This book is for you! Buffy goes right to the heart of high-nutrition, plant-based food, weaving expert knowledge into delicious recipes for the whole family.

AARON BRUNET

MASTERCHEF WINNER, AUTHOR AND PLANT-RICH FOODIE

Buffy has been my go-to for plant-based inspiration for as long as I can remember. From theory to practice, her first book combines all her brilliant knowledge and passion into one easy-to-access place. Plus, her meals are consistently tasty and inspiring — she makes me feel like a plant-based culinary rockstar in the kitchen!

DANIJELA ARMITAGE, BSC

NUTRITIONIST AND OWNER OF NOURISH & TEMPT

Be Good – Waiheke based Buffy Ellen’s plant-based cookbook is sure to be a hit this summer. Filled with glorious photographs and super healthy vegan and vegetarian recipes, it makes a good gift for vegans, vegetarians, those going gluten-free, or anyone watching their diet.

JENNY NICHOLL

WAIHEKE WEEKENDER

Be Good features 100 simple, quick and delicious plant-based recipes alongside comprehensive facts about healthy eating and including Buffy’s top ten list of nutrients and how to incorporate them into meals. Every recipe includes easy swap-outs, helpful notes for dietary requirements, prepping your pantry, filling your fridge and meal planning. And every single one of them is delicious!

DEE COLLINS

FOCUS MAGAZINE

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What’s Included

Buffy’s story

Learn about Buffy’s personal health journey – from an eating disorder and Graves’ autoimmune disease, to a full health recovery, to now a qualified Naturopath, Nutritionist, and Medical Herbalist, the founder of Australasia’s largest plant-based food blog, and proud owner of the most popular recipe website in New Zealand.

What is plant-based?

Vegan hotdogs, raw juices, or tofu – what exactly is plant-based? Buffy answers this, and guides you definitively to what plant-based foods you should be choosing.

Prepping your pantry

What you need, and what you don’t. Nothing extravagant or expensive here – just simple everyday ingredients. Buffy additionally provides you with a printable Pantry Staples Shopping List to take to the store (download it below).

Simple swaps

Cheese, milk, eggs, bacon – we all love them. So Buffy provides a simple one pager for how you can replace your favourite flavours with healthier plant-based whole food alternatives (download it below).

Recipes

Over 100 beautifully photographed recipes, in three simple sections – Savoury, Sweet, and Staples, sauces and sprinkles. Everything you need to cover you from mid-week breakfasts and dinners, to weekend desserts.

It’s not all about the sweets too, Buffy has specifically crafted this book to focus heavily on recipes you’ll actually make for lunch and dinner. There are a few special occasion options, but most are focussed on what you can make and eat every day.

44% of the book recipes are savoury, 26% are staples, and 30% are sweet (and many of these sweet recipes are in fact breakfasts and morning teas, not desserts). 10 of the recipes are old favourites from the blog which have been fully revamped (and are no longer available on the blog), while the remaining 90 are brand new.

To view a full list of the recipes inside the book, click here.

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When you purchase my cookbook Be Good: Plant-Based Recipes For Everybody, you’ll also get access to your very own printable Shopping List, Meal Planners, and Simple Swaps list FREE. Enter your details here to get them!

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