Vegan & Vegetarian Kitchen
Nourish Your Body | Nourish Our Planet
Cooks from across our community, live in their own kitchens, showing you what they actually make at home.
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Why this session exists
fruit and vegetables a day, the minimum the World Health Organization advises. Most of us are nowhere near it.
WHO Healthy Diet fact sheet, 2026Sunday broadcasts since April 2020. This kitchen has run since that August.
Healing Our Earth, sixth anniversary, April 2026of the UK ate meat-free at the end of 2025. Around 7.7 million people.
Finder and Censuswide, 2,000 UK adults, 2026of the food that reaches us is thrown away. Enough to feed 1.26 billion people.
FAO and UNEPThe six o’clock problem
Nobody stops for lack of willpower
They stop because it is six o’clock, the fridge has an aubergine and half a bag of spinach in it, and nobody ever showed them what to do next. Recipes on a page do not solve that. Watching somebody cook, in a kitchen that looks like yours, does.
Nobody changes how they eat because of a statistic. They change because somebody showed them one good meal.
Every dish is demonstrated live, with the ingredients on screen and your questions answered in the chat as you go. Come with a pan on the hob or come with a cup of tea. You do not have to be vegan or vegetarian to be welcome here, and most people watching are neither.
Nourish your body
A day’s food, as the science describes it
These are the reference intakes in the EAT-Lancet Commission’s 2025 report, in grams a day, for roughly 2,400 calories. Not a rule, and not a diet. A picture of the proportions, which is a different and more useful thing.
EAT-Lancet Commission, The Lancet 2025, Table 1. Reference intake approximately 2,400 kcal a day. Published ranges: vegetables 200 to 600g, fruits 100 to 300g, legumes 0 to 150g, milk 0 to 500g, beef, pork or lamb 0 to 30g. Whole grains are given as 20 to 50 per cent of daily energy.
Nourish our planet
What a vegan diet costs, against a high meat one
Greenhouse gases
95% interval 15.1 to 37.0%Land use
95% interval 7.1 to 44.5%Water use
95% interval 21.0 to 81.0%Scarborough, Clark, Cobiac et al., Nature Food 4, 565–574 (2023). 55,504 people. Figures are vegan diets as a percentage of high meat-eaters, defined as 100g or more of meat a day. Greenhouse gases and land use share a point estimate but not their certainty: land use ranges far wider.
On the menu
Six kitchens, one afternoon
Seasonal British
September produce at its peak. Blackberries, plums, sweetcorn, squash, kale, runner beans, wild mushrooms.
South Indian
The dishes this kitchen returns to most. Idli, sambar, coconut chutney, lemon rice, kosambari.
East African fusion
Coconut and green banana, kachumbari, plantain, chapati. The cooking of the diaspora that built this platform.
Ayurvedic autumn
Eating for the turn of the season. Kitchari, warming spice, root vegetables, the principles behind them.
High protein
The question every plant-based cook is asked. Answered with lentils, tofu, chickpeas and a plate you would want to eat.
Nothing wasted
Stalks, tops, peel and stale bread. What to do with the two thirds of a vegetable most people bin.
September, at its best
Blackberries, plums, sweetcorn, squash, kale, runner beans, chard and wild mushrooms. Cooking with what is in season is the cheapest and simplest thing anyone can change, and it happens to be the greenest.
Cook along with us
Shop on Saturday, cook on Sunday
Most of what gets demonstrated comes back to the same handful of things. Tick these off as you get them in and you will be able to cook alongside the broadcast rather than watch it. Nothing here is expensive and nothing is hard to find.
The running order
Who is cooking
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Carried by
- Hindu Forum of Europe
- Hindu Matters in Britain
- Sanskruti
- MentalHealth_Connect
- Diwali in London
- SAHA
- Sacred Mysteries
- Gyan
Channel partners redistribute the broadcast to their own communities. And many more.
Sunday 13 September 2026 · 2:00pm to 6:00pm BST
Bring your kitchen
Free, open to anyone, and no sign-up of any kind. Bring somebody who cooks.
Vegan & Vegetarian Kitchen
Nourish Your Body | Nourish Our Planet
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