Healthy Vegan Cooking with BBC Good Food

Discover healthy vegan recipes

Whether it’s for ethics, the planet, or your health, there are many reasons why you might want to follow a vegan diet or simply introduce more vegan meals into your life.

On this four-week course, you’ll explore how to follow and maintain a healthy vegan diet.

You’ll learn how to identify the main food groups you should include and how to cook and create delicious meals that satisfy and nourish you on your vegan journey.

To gain a comprehensive understanding of a vegan diet, you’ll look at the difference between vegan and other common diets such as vegetarian and plant-based before exploring the reasons why one might choose to adopt a vegan one.

Explore the role of macronutrients and micronutrients in a vegan diet

You’ll learn the core concepts of a balanced diet and which vegan foods can provide daily nutrients.

You’ll learn how to modify meals whilst maintaining flavour and understand the role of macronutrients and micronutrients in the vegan diet.

Create a vegan meal plan with cupboard essentials

Throughout the course, you’ll learn how to navigate common vegan cooking mishaps, stock your kitchen with store cupboard staples, and discover new favourite recipes to enjoy and share with friends and family.

Learning from the experts at BBC Good food, you’ll finish the course with a one-week vegan meal plan and the confidence to ensure a balanced and delicious vegan diet.

This course is designed for anyone interested in eating and cooking vegan meals, whether you’re a new or existing vegan or you simply want to cook more vegan food.

It will help you learn more about veganism and maintaining a healthy and varied diet.

If you want to develop your understanding further, you may also be interested in these courses from the same provider. They feature related subjects and share the same overall learning outcomes:

• Sweet Tooth: Understanding Sugar and the Body with BBC Good Food
• Fibre, Fermentation & the Gut with BBC Good Food
• Special Diets: Cooking for Allergies and Intolerances with BBC Good Food

• Vegan basics
• Welcome
• Different diets
• Why vegan?
• What’s next?
• The vegan plate
• Welcome
• The macros
• The finer detail - micronutrients
• What’s next?
• Ingredient substitutes
• Welcome
• Which substitute?
• Main meals
• What’s next?
• Take it to the kitchen
• Welcome
• Let’s get cooking
• Take it up a level
• What’s next?