Your microbiome's new favourite salad 💥
Packed with trending crunchy celery. Plus, 3 ideas with new potatoes your gut will love
Firstly a delicious microbiome-nourishing celery salad via professional food writer and Substacker Sue Quinn.
I lept on her recipe version as soon as I saw it and asked Sue if I could share it with you here and she said yes!
Not only does it have 11 of your 30 plants per week in one mouthful (30+ being the goal for a healthy gut).
If you pick the right raw cheese, or fermented vegan non-dairy option (more detail below) you can lace it with probiotics too.
Having a wide variety of plants per week, and fermented foods with live probiotic bacteria are great strategies to stimulate the growth of healthy bacteria in your gut.
When these are thriving they can spark better brain health, digestion, skin and immune health (plus more!).
You might be wondering why I’m not just directing you straight to the gazillions of versions of the trending celery salad on Instagram and TikTok right now.
Don’t know about you, I do find those short videos often inspiring.
But often lacking in the details and professional polish to get a dish absolutely right taste and texture-wise.
Sometimes you can waste a lot of money and time with said Instagram salad ending up in the bin.
So imagine you get a multi-book-writing professional recipe writer on the job…entrance Sue! Check out her fabulous Substack Pen & Spoon HERE.
I’ll comment on versions you could make whether you are dairy free, vegan, vegetarian or eat everything. All options mentioned today are gluten free.
I hope this recipe is a keeper - and it gets a spot in your regular biome-feeding repetoire.
Plus, now we are in new potato season in the UK, some reminders of how to enjoy them to get some resistant starch fibre to feed your microbiome too.
Guten appetit! Jeannette x
First the recipe…