Whether you’re at the beginning of your health and wellness journey and needing help to stay motivated or a seasoned plant-based foodie looking to add more delicious meals to your repertoire, this is the book for you.
Plant-Based Goodness is brimming with over 90 of Tracey’s favourite recipes for every occasion — all simple to make with most of the ingredients being readily available at your local supermarket. All recipes are 100% plant-based, refined sugar-free, dairy-free and mostly gluten-free.
Learn how to make irresistible plant-based food that is bursting with colour, flavour and texture, and containing all the protein and essential nutrition that you need to thrive. Enjoy giving many of your old favourites a wholesome, plant-based makeover. Learn exciting new ways to work with plant-based, wholefoods to create uncomplicated, mouth-watering meals that you and your family will love.
These recipes will help you enhance your cooking skills and repertoire AND elevate your overall health and wellbeing.
Get ready to feel vital, energised and amazing!
Meet Tracey:
Tracey is a Plant-Based Wholefood Chef who is passionate about creating, enjoying and sharing delicious and nourishing plant-based food with others. As a working mother of four fabulous young adults (and now grandmother to four!), Tracey knows just how important it is to create simple meals that taste awesome and don’t demand too much of your time. Her signature style is rustic, delicious, colourful and easy-to-throw-together.
Tracey instinctually stopped eating red meat at age 16. She has always enjoyed the creative aspects of cooking (like crafting her own dishes from scratch) and also making food look gorgeous! She credits her Mum for the latter passion as she was super-talented at making food look amazing while Tracey was growing up, and she admired and saw how much people enjoyed this. In her early 20’s, it wasn’t unusual for her to spend all day preparing a dinner party for her university friends, loving the ritual of creating an epic meal for her special people and connecting over good food. She connected and got together with strict plant-eater Jason Shon Bennett in her late 20s and making food for them both (and their kids) changed how she saw ingredients, flavours, mixes and dishes. Plants became everything and she began a new foodie adventure which was the catalyst to her love affair with legumes!
Cooking remained a big passion into family life and Tracey co-founded The Exceptional Health Company with now-husband Jason in 2009, based on sheer demand in their community. They have available their on-line programme ‘thelifeplan®’ (recently completely updated, improved and relaunched!), for people wanting to improve their health and vitality, overcome illnesses, drop excess weight, and extend their longevity. In this partnership, Jason is the inspiration, researcher and speaker (the ‘why’), and Tracey the recipe creator and provider (the ‘how to’), creating over 300 recipes along the way. Together, their vision is to educate and inspire people how to eat well, get well and stay well through simple changes to their diet, lifestyle and environment.
These days, Tracey takes great pleasure in sharing her love of food with others through teaching workshops in her community and sometimes further afield. She is currently teaching one-day Plant Based Cooking Workshops on a variety of delicious topics. However, her biggest passion is leading Fasting & Wellness Retreats with Jason, where together they take people on a 3/5 day journey deep diving into all things health and wellness as well as learning the powerful practice of Regular Intelligent Fasting®. These retreat experiences are incredible fun, deeply bonding, and completely life-changing for the attendees.
While Tracey considers herself an educator first, she has in recent years begun to dabble and delight in providing plant-based catering/nourishment for special events, mostly in the wellness/transformation industry. She is thoroughly enjoying this as Tracey loves to nourish people with delicious nutrient-rich food made with plenty of aroha while they go through deep growth and transformational work.
A people person through and through, Tracey loves connecting, creating and collaborating with others on a similar path so who know what is around the corner; and yes, there is definitely a long awaited cookbook (or 3) in the making…. This being the 1st one.
The Amore Food shop supplies over 1200 wholefoods incl. fresh org & SF produce around NZ. Kelly likes to help people on their road to health & share the benefits of eating REAL whole foods as well as info she has researched over the past 12+ years. The Amore Food Cafe offers REAL FOOD made with love. The Amore Wellness Clinic is where Aaron offers biofeedback scans & much more!
