A really easy and tasty salad recipe to add some colour, fibre and herbs into your diet. While fibre is a great food source for the bacteria in the gut, the colourful pigments also help to keep the environment in gut healthy.

An unusual mix of vegetables and fruit in this salad but believe it or not, it works! Variety of the foods in the diet has a big impact on the variety and diversity of bacteria in the gut. Another reason to include a wide variety of plants in your diet on a daily basis.

Mixing vegetables with the sweetness of pomegranate is a great way to include some variety into the diet. Even though this dish is best served warm it will keep in the fridge for a few days and makes a good addition to lunches and dinners.

A lovely combination of mushrooms and thyme which is a quick and easy addition to mealtimes. Having a list of quick and easy recipes to add variety to meals times takes a lot of the stress out of cooking. This also increases the diversity of plants eaten which helps to maintain a healthy gut.

Brussels sprouts aren’t just for the festive season and they’re available for a large amount of the year. If you’re not up to the challenge to chopping them finely and adding them to salads grilling them or making soups are also good options. They’re not everyone favourite but I always think that’s just because they haven’t found the best way to prepare them.