If you are looking for support to reach your happy shape check out of happy shape course with a weight loss doctor and a dietician link to learn more here
What are the characteristics of a great leader? Are you born with it, or can it be taught?
From the moment she entered the studio filling the space with warmth; to the leadership roundtable she facilitated at the end, Joanne oozed passion for people and creating a nation of leaders “of good character”.
Today, Joanne is dedicated to her social enterprise LIFT, which strives to create positive change in Ireland through values-based leadership. With over 30,000 people doing LIFT roundtables since inception 4 years ago, LIFT is the most inclusive positive leadership initiative ever seen in Ireland.
Starting as an entrepreneur at the age of 27, Joanne founded two businesses of her own: The Entrepreneurs Academy and QED The Accreditation Experts.
What else? From speaking at TEDx and authoring the best-selling “Don’t Get A Job Build A Business”, to spending being elected a Council member of the Dublin Chamber, Joanne has also lived a rich professional life away.
We are very grateful for the wisdom, lessons and kindness Joanne gifted us and believe that anyone striving to be a better leader will benefit from this conversation!
A great episode! Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Lots of Love,
Dave & Steve x
This May 30th join us on The Happy Shape Challenge! One month, where we all begin together, guided by Dave, Steve, Dr Sue and Rosie through constant live Q&A’s. Come join us and find out more on how you can feel healthier and happier while maintaining your happy shape! Follow this link for more information: thehappypear.ie/happyshape
Pre-order our new book The Veg Box Now!
Produced by Sara Fawsitt and Sean Cahill
This easy poke bowl for weight loss is so tasty and only takes 5 mins to make and is low in fat – its perfect for anyone who wants to stay in shape and eat a delicious meal. In the video 2 of us cooked in 5 mins so it might take you 10 mins.
Prep time : 5 mins | Cook time : 5 mins | Total time 5 mins Makes: 2 Servings | Difficulty: Easy
For this easy poke bowl for weightloss in 5 mins we use precooked brown rice but replace with quinoa or your favourite grain of choice. If you cant get tempeh just replace with tofu or even oyster mushrooms.
If you are looking for support to reach your happy shape check out of happy shape course with a weight loss doctor and a dietician link to learn more here
This high protein bowl for weight loss only takes 5 mins to make and is low in fat – its perfect for anyone who wants to stay in shape and eat a delicious meal. In the video 2 of us cooked in 5 mins so it might take you 10 mins.
Prep time : 5 mins | Cook time : 5 mins | Total time 5 mins Makes: 2 Servings | Difficulty: Easy
For this High protein bowl for weight loss only takes 5 mins to make. We use some pre cooked quinoa as it has a full spectrum of amino acids, the tofu and added pumpkin seeds brings more protein to this meal. If you cant find quinoa just replace with your favourite grain of choice.
if you do want to make it lower in fat just leave out the avocado. hope you enjoy! If you are looking for support to reach your happy shape check out of happy shape course with a weight loss doctor and a dietician link to learn more here
This week we have the wonderful Dr Sue Kenneally with us, the weight management specialist!
A General Practitioner, nutritionist and co-founder of the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine. Dr Sue sits on the board of Plant Based Health Professionals UK and is SCOPE certified in obesity management, working with the University of South Wales in the study of weight management.
We have known Sue for years, having first met her at The Plant-based Doctor Conference in London where we connected immediately. Aside from her qualifications, Sue’s deep understanding of the difficulties of weight management comes from her own personal experience as well as her empathetic nature, “I am not naturally slim myself, I have to work hard to maintain my own weight, and I know that the challenge is real!”
After our first encounter in London, we kept up our friendship which eventually blossomed into The Happy Shape Course! A 4 week course where along with Dietician, Rosie Martin, and PT, Zanna Van Dijk, the five of us take on what it truly means to have a happy shape, through education, movement, sleep, food, nutrition, community and most importantly having fun! We debunk the myths, ensure you are never hungry or lacking in delicious food and connect you with a group of like minded people so you forever feel supported.
“Getting someone to change their relationship with food is like getting someone to change their relationship with any addictive substance. The only difference is if I am dealing with a heroin addict I can tell them to stop taking heroin and support them to do that, but I can’t tell someone who is addicted to food to stop eating…”
In this episode, Dr Sue takes us through the most common mistakes people make for weight management, the differences between men and women, why calorie counting is pointless, and practical tips you can apply now.
A great episode! Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Lots of Love,
Dave & Steve x
This May 30th join us on The Happy Shape Challenge! One month, where we all begin together, guided by Dave, Steve, Dr Sue and Rosie through constant live Q&A’s. Come join us and find out more on how you can feel healthier and happier while maintaining your happy shape! Follow this link for more information: thehappypear.ie/happyshape
Pre-order our new book The Veg Box Now!
Produced by Sara Fawsitt and Sean Cahill
These easy vegan tacos are low in fat and yet so tasty – ideal for anyone wanting a quick meal that is healthy and genuinely tasty. For a gluten free version just use corn tortillas or even a gluten free version
Prep time : 5 mins | Cook time : 5 mins | Total time 10 mins Makes: 2 Servings | Difficulty: Easy
We made up this recipe for easy vegan tacos in 5 mins to show how quick and accessible healthy food can be. We run our Happy Shape Challenge which we partnered with a Doctor and Dietician to help people lose weight and gain health. These easy vegan tacos are low in energy density and high in fibre meaning they are ideal for anyone wanting to lose weight or get a little healthier.
If you cant get soy yogurt just place with coconut yogurt or similar yogurt, just be mindful that coconut yogurt typically have a fat content of approx 10% versus soy yogurt normally has a fat content of approx 1%. If you dont like mushrooms you could replace with some finely sliced tofu, the reason you slice it finely is to ensure that it also cooks quickly
Here is a collection of weight loss recipes that are all plant based, vegan and suitable for anyone who wants to lose weight or sustain a healthy weight. All of these recipes are naturally low in fat, low in calories while being high in fibre, packed with nutrition and oil free. These are some of the most popular recipes from our Happy Shape Course and all recipes have been checked by our dietician. All these recipes are whole food plant based so are naturally high in fibre so fill you up and nourish your microbiome as they have a diversity of plant based ingredients. Please let us know which you enjoy most!
Easy Cheesy Mexican Enchiladas
An easy to make family favourite in our houses! The tortillas are filled with a delicious tomato and bean sauce, and baked in the oven and served with a rocking cashew cream.
Total Time Needed: 15 Mins
Difficulty: Easy
Poke bowl
A poke bowl is a wonderfully colourful meal served in a bowl and combines many textures and flavour profiles to bring a really delicious and healthy meal.
Total Time Needed: 15 Mins
Difficulty: Easy
Hearty Italian Veg & White Bean Soup
This is a really hearty chunky soup packed full of flavour. We love a good wholesome chunky soup, particularly one that walks the line between a soup and a stew, which one might even call “stoup”.
Total Time Needed: 50 Mins
Difficulty: Easy
Easy Vietnamese Coconut & Tempeh Curry
This is a deliciously simple curry! Tempeh is a fermented soybean block. We know this is not a very appealing description, but when prepared right, tempeh tastes like sausage or chorizo; meaty and substantial! It is not as readily available as tofu but can be found in most good health stores. you can simply replace tempeh with Tofu
Total Time Needed: 25 Mins
Difficulty: Easy
Chia Seed Pudding
A super tasty breakfast that Dave & Steve both eat most mornings. Chia seeds are packed with fibre, protein and are a good source of omega 3’s. Topped with lots of fresh fruit this is a mighty way to start the day!!
Total Time Needed: 12 Mins
Difficulty: Easy
Tasty Vegan Pate
This is so good, pate was always one of Steve’s favourite foods, he hadn’t eaten it in over 20 years and this was just perfect so like the real thing – takes 20 mins to make, is much healthier than the traditional pate and is so tasty!
Total Time Needed: 20 Mins
Difficulty: Easy
Easy Balti Curry
Pumpkin and squash are in season here in Ireland, and with the cosy weather of Autumn beginning, this is an easy quick recipe for a delicious Balti curry with chickpeas or your favourite beans of choice. The name Balti comes from the little metal Balti dish these curries are served in but you can use a saucepan or wide bottomed frying pan.
Total Time Needed: 20 Mins
Difficulty: Easy
Sundried Tomato and Basil Pasta Alfredo Pasta
Alfredo is traditionally made with lots of butter and parmesan cheese but we wanted to create an easy delicious creamy vegan version of the famous italian pasta dish for when you are craving a creamy pasta. Total comfort food! We added some sundried tomatoes and basil to our creamy cashew sauce too, Enjoy!
Total Time Needed: 10 Mins
Difficulty: Easy
Jackfruit Ragu
Braised Jackfruit in rich tomato sauce with tagliatelle and a subtle fennel background note to give a juicy aniseed bite. This is a beautiful vegan version of the wild boar ragu that is quick to make and super tasty
Total Time Needed: 20 Mins
Difficulty: Easy
Easy Creamy Roasted Red Pepper Pasta
So easy and tasty – the addition of the roasted red peppers add a lovely sweetness and slight charred note that goes so well with the wholemeal pasta. This has it all creamy, pasta deliciousness! Add any cooked veg you like to bulk this out
Total Time Needed: 10 Mins
Difficulty: Easy
Easy Creamy Brocolli & Mushroom Pasta
This recipe is the perfect example of synergy where the sum of the parts are greater than apart. Looking at this recipe it seems very simple but the result is a super tasty creamy pasta dish that is a family favourite. It makes a perfect bowl of comforting goodness!
Total Time Needed: 15 Mins
Difficulty: Easy
Oil Free Mushroom Pasta
Easy to make, really simple and super tasty, this creamy, fried mushrooms pasta is well worth making! This recipe is oil free and from our Happy Shape Club which is our 12 week no calorie counting, no portion control course to help you to become happy with your shape. The method below is slightly different to the video, both methods work fab.
Total Time Needed: 15 Mins
Difficulty: Easy
South Indian Potato & Lentil Curry
This is super rich curry with a really well rounded flavour profile. We love it and we really hope you enjoy it!
Total Time Needed: 35 Mins
Difficulty: Easy
5 Minute Weightloss Dahl
This is a low calorie, super easy Dahl. It is one of our most popular recipes! Enjoy served with toasted pitta breads and some brown rice 🙂
Total Time Needed: 5 Mins
Difficulty: Easy
No Oil Carbonara
This a fabulous low fat dinner bursting with flavour. This make a wonderful weekly dinner for any pasta lover.
Total Time Needed: 15 Mins
Difficulty: Easy
Oil Free Thai Yellow Curry
Give this simple, easy Thai curry recipe a go. Being oil free it’s great for anyone trying to lose weight!
Total Time Needed: 15 Mins
Difficulty: Easy
Mexican Stuffed Sweet Potato Skins
Very tasty and satisfying dinner that will brighten up your evening and fill your kitchen with a sweet Mexican style smell! These are high in nutrition while being low in calories and super tasty. We have added a cashew cream to the written recipe which just adds another more indulgent quality which is not in the video but either way they are delicious!
Total Time Needed: 50 Mins
Difficulty: Easy
“It’s embarrassing to say: “I was the victim of abuse. I was the victim of domestic abuse.”
As a child her home meant violence, her security and safety was the streets – school did not understand her and wanted to punish her – she moved from one abusive relationship to the next one resulting in such physical damage it caused the death of her unborn child. Drugs and alcohol became her only companions, “I had burnt my life to the ground, I would ruin everything I touched because I wasn’t able to be myself, to be honest with myself.”
At the age of 25 something happened which changed her life…
Jen Healy is a qualified neuroscience life coach, Yin yoga teacher, and cacao facilitator.
Her difficult past has shaped her into the powerful, and inspiring woman she is today. With over 13 years of experience working frontline in addiction, homelessness and mental health, “I’ve had the privilege to work with some of the most complex cases as part of a multi-disciplinary team including GPs involuntary admissions team and the Resettlement team for the National Forensics Hospital (Central Mental hospital)”
Jen came down to the studio and brought a bar of “only female touched” cacao, “honing in on the feminine energies”. We sat in a circle, whispered our intentions as we sipped on the delicious warming drink – would you believe, this was our first cacao ceremony?! We might be enthusiastic vegan yogis but the thought of cacao ceremonies had even been too much for us.
We continued to sit and talk for nearly 2 hours during which Jen brought us through her challenging past, and the fundamental moments that has shaped her into being the woman she is today. Through all the depths of what she has been through has blossomed this wisdom, love, generosity, and the capacity to make others feel the emotions of what she and even others have gone through.
“She said: “Jen, victims don’t recover”, and I thought the neck of her! Who does she think she is?! I was fuming but I knew in my gut, this bitch is right… I felt like she had a shotgun of truth and I didn’t want to hear it… “The world owes me I have been wronged” – It was exactly what I needed.”
Jen has a charm and charisma that draws you in, she wears her vulnerability with pride allowing you to feel totally at ease and trust in her company. A powerful conversation that will bring tears to yours eyes, moments of laughter and leave you feeling warm.
Enjoy!
Lots of Love,
Dave & Steve x
To find out more about Jen and her work visit her site: https://jenhealy.ie/
Or check out her instagram: @yinyogajen
Pre-order our new book The Veg Box Now!
Produced by Sara Fawsitt and Sean Cahill
Here are 3 easy to make kale recipes and cabbage recipes to show the versatility and ease of cooking with kale and cabbage can be. We make a kale pesto pasta, an asian style charred teriyaki cabbage and delicious kale crips. These are all so tasty and easy to make.
Prep time : 10 mins | Cook time : 45 mins | Total time 55 mins Makes: 10 Servings | Difficulty: Medium
Kale is one of our favourite veg and is the no 1 food on the nutrient density aggregate index as its so packed full of nutrients. Both kale and cabbage are from the brassica family and can have a sulphur like note to them that can mask as bitterness. In these kale recipe and cabbage recipe we really focus on elevate these veg so that they taste fantastic and that everyone wants to eat more of these nutritious power houses!
The kale pesto is so easy to make, use wholemeal pasta as it will be higher in fibre and better for you and to make it lower in fat just substitute half the oil with water so that you use 75ml of water and 75ml of oil thus reducing the added oil by 50%. All our kids love this dish as its super tasty, simple and no one knows that they are eating kale! The Asian style charred cabbage dish is Steves favourite way to eat cabbage – its quick so tasty and really shows how delicious cabbage can be. Lastly the kale crisps might sounds a little far fetched but they work wonderfully and really make kale taste so good!
Dr Julie Smith is on a mission to make mental health education accessible to all! To help as many people as she can to thrive, by making top-quality mental health education readily available online, so even those who cannot access therapy can get off to the best start in their recovery journey.
Dr Julie is a clinical psychologist, online educator, blogger, and owner of a private practice in Hampshire, England. She is also the best-selling author of the book “Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before”.
Dr Julie’s short punchy social media post has caught the attention of many followers as she distills serious topics into bite-sized, motivational and visually entertaining snippets.
We really enjoyed speaking with Julie, her message is clear, she is not trying to reinvent the wheel with some amazing hack to mental health, it is in her ability to make important information relatable and tangible. We all want that pill to make us better but sometimes what we really need is staring right in front of us!
From dealing with and managing anxiety, to stress, and critical inner voices, to relationships and external judgements, we talk through many of the challenges we have in todays society and the tools and techniques that can help us navigate through them.
“Your attention is like a spotlight, all these different actors are coming on the stage. You hold the spotlight, you can choose which actor you want to shine it on and which ones you will let pass. Some thoughts will hang around on stage for longer than you wanted them to, but you don’t have to give them the spotlight”
Lots of Love,
Dave & Steve x
Read more about Dr Julie’s work and profile here: https://doctorjuliesmith.com/
Follow her on Instagram to hear her latest updates @drjulie
Pre-order our new book The Veg Box Now!
Produced by Sara Fawsitt and Sean Cahill
The Happy Pear began in our Greystones shop, in 2004. Dave and Steve had a dream of making the world a healthier and happier place, and they started by opening a simple fruit and veg shop in their hometown.
Their passion for plant-based food led them to open the cafe a year later, and now, 14 years on, the shop and cafe continue to be a hub of community, delicious plant-based food, and positivity, for locals and visitors alike.
Over the past 10 years, Dave & Steve have written 4 International Best Selling Cookbooks. They all focus on turning great produce into great food in the easiest way possible. Our cookbooks are full of irresistible recipes for everything from breakfasts, lunches, dinners, cakes, sweet treats, special occasion splurges and much more!
They are avalaible to order/buy in all good books stores and you can grab a copy online via the link below! Check out our latest book - The Veg Box: 10 Vegetables, 10 Ways. Available to pre-order now from Easons and Amazon using the links at the bottom of the page
We started our 'Happy Heart' course upstairs in our shop, encouraging people to eat more veg and supported them on their journey. The results astoned us, and our students, so much that we wanted to share it with as many people as possible.
Over the past 10 years we have created 7 Amazing Courses with some of the most decorated plant based medical professionals in the worlds!
We have now had over 40,000 people take part with over 90% of our students experiencing one of the following benefits:
Weight Loss Enhanced Energy Levels
Gut Repair Improved Heart Health
Mood Increase Increased Skin Health
Our students can access our courses from anywhere in the world and on any device. Spaced out over a 4-6 week period, all the course contents are manageable, easy to digest and amazing fun!
"They are incredible..they are vegan, fit as fiddles & full of joy."
"These two guys really are the happiest guys on the planet."
"These lovely boys always create incredible tasty food!"
"They are great people, who make unbelievable food."
The Happy Pear started out back in 2004 with Steve, Dave, a tiny shop and a dream of helping people to eat more veg!
Fast forward 15 years, The Happy Pear now consists of over 40 products, a suite of online courses, our café and shop in Greystones, Wicklow, a range of cookbooks, a farm, a roastery and a community of over 1 million people living healthier!
The mission is still the same, to create a healthier happier world and build community!
