The Vegan 8 (healthy recipes with 8 ingredients or less)

Brandi Doming is a former model, who helped heal her husband’s gout, by creating tasty recipes without oil (or gluten). Her book The Vegan 8 has recipes with 8 ingredients or less (not including water and salt).

These recipes are ideal for people who need to lose weight or have been told to eat less oil by their doctors, as the recipes still use healthy fats, but no refined oil.

Before cooking, read up on food safety for people and pets (many foods are unsafe near animal friends). Bin allium scraps (onion, leeks, garlic, shallots, chives) and citrus/tomato/rhubarb scraps, as acids could harm compost creatures. It’s okay to put them in food waste bins (made into biogas).

For tinned foods, fully remove lids (put inside) or pop ring-pulls back over holes (and pinch top opening closed) before recycling, to avoid wildlife getting trapped.

Recipes include:

• Roasted Gold Potatoes with Rosemary Sauce
• Bakery-style Blueberry Muffins
• Cream ‘Cheese’ Spinach Artichoke Dip
• Cajun Veggie & Potato Chowder
• Skillet Baked Mac n ‘Cheese’
• BBQ Bean Ball Sub
• No-Bake Chocolate Espresso Fudge Cake

To hit the same amount of fat and calories in 1 tablespoon of olive oil, you would need to eat 24 pitted green olives. 8 olives vs 1 teaspoon of olive oil gives a lot more food, with fibre and nutrients. A tiny dab of oil or lots of olives? I’ll take the olives. Chef Lindsay Nixon