How to nail the 30-plants-a-week meal challenge

A major study found that the greater number of plants a person ate, the healthier they were. So we had a crack at it.

Luke Benedictus

Jul 23, 2024 – 5.00am

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I add a squeeze of lemon to the “beef and squash tagine” and spoon it into four bowls of brown rice alongside the “creamy, lemony, minty courgettes”. When I plonk them down on the table, my children stare at them in appalled disbelief. My seven-year-old, Joe, promptly bursts into tears, while his six-year-old brother, Marc, bellows in outrage. “Re-vol-ting!” he yells. “No way I’m eating that!”