Self
Paying attention to your own attention. Small, repeatable habits rather than reinvention.
Base Camp
A place to start.
New to Plant Base Life? Start here. Explore a few useful ideas around what you eat, what you learn and how you live. No rules. No labels. Take what works for you and grow from there.
You don't need to change everything.
Plant Base Life isn't about following a perfect plan. Base Camp is simply a place to get oriented, pick up a few useful ideas and decide where you want to go next.
- Make something.
- Learn something.
- Try something.
Start wherever you'd like.
Eat
Make something versatile.
You don't need an entirely different meal every day. Start with a few versatile foundations and turn them into different meals depending on what you have, what you like and what sounds good.
Make once.
Multi-Meals
Hummus
A dip, a spread, a sauce — one base, many directions.
View recipe →Tomato sauce
The backbone of pasta, bowls, beans and braises.
View recipe →Basil pesto
A spoonful makes simple ingredients taste considered.
View recipe →Cashew cream
Creamy without dairy, savory or slightly sweet.
View recipe →Cowboy caviar
Beans, corn, vegetables and herbs, eaten differently all week.
View recipe →Coconut curry
Warm, forgiving and good with almost any vegetable.
View recipe →Lemon tahini
Bright and nutty. A salad, a bowl, a sandwich — done.
View recipe →Meatless meatballs
One foundation, lots of possibilities.
View recipe →
Learn
Learn something useful.
You don't need to know everything. Sometimes one useful idea is enough to change what you make, buy or try next.
Which nuts contain protein?
How almonds, peanuts, pistachios, cashews and walnuts compare per handful.
Simple ways to add more plants to a meal
Small additions rather than substitutions: greens, beans, herbs at the end.
Understanding common plant-based ingredients
Tahini, nutritional yeast, miso, tofu, tempeh, aquafaba — and when to reach for them.
Kitchen basics
The few tools and techniques that make cooking faster and less fussy.
Ingredient comparisons
Side-by-side notes so swapping one ingredient for another feels obvious.
Food storage
How to keep prepared foundations, herbs, sauces and grains usable through the week.
Simple preparation ideas
Roast, blend, marinate, crisp. Four approaches that cover most of a week.
Fiber before friends
What fiber is, where to find it, and easy everyday ways to add it.
Enough information to be useful. Not enough to make life complicated.
Explore Learn →Live
Remember what makes you wealthy.
Health is wealth.
Healthy is wealthy
A rich life can also be measured in the things we have, share, make, experience, and give. Wealth is what your life is rich in.
- Friendship — A life rich in people to laugh with, lean on, and share it with.
- Creativity — A life rich in ideas, curiosity, and things you make your own.
- Experiences — A life rich in places you've been, things you've tried, and stories you've collected.
- Laughter — A life rich in moments that make everything feel a little lighter.
- Community — A life rich in belonging, connection, and showing up for one another.
- Time — A life rich in time for the people and things that matter.
- Peace — A life rich in quiet, space, and moments when nothing else is required.
- Purpose — A life rich in things worth caring about and reasons to show up.
Self. Others. Purpose
Others
How we talk, listen, show up and stay connected — the part of living well that's hardest to buy.
Purpose
The things that give a week shape: making something, moving your body, learning an idea worth carrying.
You don't have to change everything.
Add something good.
Learn something useful.
Find what works for you.
Eat. Learn. Live. with purpose.
Our philosophy →Plant Base isn't a therapist, medical resource or self-help authority. We write about ideas and books we find interesting — including work by other authors — as a starting point for our own conversations, not as frameworks we claim as ours.