We create weekly anti-inflammatory recipes and easy meal ideas that follow the growing season, farms and markets for land + sea + plant-based eating styles. We offer a sensible and flexible choice for people cooking for different dietary needs, food allergies, preferences and therapeutic eating.

We help people who want to eat better and need help with making dietary changes. Our memberships take the guesswork out of what to cook each week and show you “how to” eat anti-inflammatory meals and make healthy food taste great! 

Botanical Kitchen gives you the “how-to” skills to bring vibrant and nourishing food to your table. 

Our mission is to help fill the gaps in our healthcare systems for patients and clients and to support practitioners. We empower people to use food as medicine, cook with confidence and eat to thrive.

Memberships provide weekly menus, recipes and meal ideas with a functional nutrition and food-as-medicine approach that follows seasonal eating, farms and markets.

Committed to supporting local seasonal eating and sustainable farmers, Founder and Chef Karina Hines creates simple how-to recipes that adapt to dietary needs, food allergies and preferences.

Our recipes provide a functional nutrition focus to support vibrant health. We believe nourishing food is the best medicine, and cooking empowers the healing journey.

Inflammation is at the root of all dis-ease. Eating an anti-inflammatory diet helps reduce inflammation and manage symptoms which is a foundational part of the healing journey. Food allergy symptoms are the body’s response to inflammation.

Change is hard, and making dietary changes is challenging; figuring out what to eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner with dietary restrictions is hard and can feel punishing.

“I am all about nourishing, not punishing” with my extensive education and experience, I have the skill set to really help guide people with the “how-to” of making the changes they want to make by providing menus, meal ideas and recipes with adaptations”.  

“ I offer practical examples of what breakfast, lunch & dinner looks like using sensible ingredients to help people succeed in their health goals”.
                               Functional Nutrition Chef Karina Hines CFNC

We offer two monthly memberships Chef’s Table  +  Whole Plant LIFE that provide weekly menus, recipes and meal ideas that follow seasonal eating with a functional nutrition approach.

Founder Karina Hines is a functional nutritional chef and believes each individual has their own dietary needs. All our recipes are whole-ingredient and in-season nutrient-dense focussed.

Chefs Table is the flexible choice membership with land + sea + plant-based diets. Chef’s Table members have access to all the recipes. We use in-season farm-to-table style ingredients with suggested ingredients swaps & substitutions to suit different eating styles, preferences, food allergies & therapeutic diets.

Whole Plant LIFE is a whole-food plant-based vegan membership using whole in-season plant ingredients with suggested ingredients swaps & substitutions to suit different eating styles, preferences, food allergies & therapeutic diets.

YES Botanical Kitchen memberships follow the seasons. Our weekly recipes + menus feature ingredients that are in-season week by week all year round.

We aim to help farmers’ markets & CSAs shoppers, support farms & help communities cook local food with confidence.

I think we all have to do the best that we can. Buying frozen fruits and vegetables is great; they are as nutrient-dense as buying fresh, sometimes more so, as they are harvested in peak season and immediately frozen.

Buy as many fruits and vegetables as possible and grow what you can in your backyards, containers around your home and your local community gardens.

1. To help small farm supporters and customers learn how to cook healthy, local, and in-season food.
   

    

2. To bridge the gap between lifestyle medicine practitioners and patients with how-to, make significant dietary changes.

    

3. To help people with food allergies, health concerns and dis-ease become empowered in their own healing journey. 

When we buy from local farmers, we are reinvesting in our own local food security, economy, environment and personal health.

YES. Each recipe includes suggested swaps | substitutes, ingredient adaptations for different eating styles, food allergies, sensitivities, dietary needs, preferences and therapeutic diets.

We provide an affordable and adaptable approach to therapeutic cooking.

YES. Botanical Kitchen members create a personalised ingredient & grocery list of what they need to buy for their selected recipes. 

For each recipe, you can select ✓ what ingredients you want to buy and add that to your shopping list.  You can also add other household items manually. 

All the ingredients you select & add plus the recipes you selected them from are accessed by our members on their MY LIST page.

YES. Botanical Kitchen Members save their favourite recipes to their personalised MY FAVOURITES page to help make life easier and inspire sensible, affordable & healthy cooking.

Functional Nutrition Chef & Founder Karina Hines CFNC

“With over twenty years of experience as a chef focusing on healthy food, she has a diverse knowledge of the relationship between the food we eat and how it impacts our health”.

See About Karina Hines for more information.

Go to the HOW IT WORKS – About Membership page.  

1. CHOOSE your membership.
            Chef’s Table $12 / month.
            Whole Plant LIFE $9 /month.

2. Press the SUBSCRIBE button.

3. Fill in the Registration Form. 
You will not be charged until after your 21-day free trial.

Less than Netflix, Spotify or 2 cups of coffee!

Chefs Table is $12 / month.
Whole Plant Life is $9 / month.

Experience our 21-day FREE TRIAL.

We respect & value our members’ trust. We make it simple to manage subscriptions at any time!

YES. Go to the HOW IT WORKS – About Membership page.

Once your free trial is over, you will be charged month-by-month.

YES, Absolutely, at any time. We value our members’ trust and make your membership simple to manage.

LOG IN

Go to MY ACCOUNT Page –  in the side navigation bar

Click on Update my Membership

Cancel at Any time. Pause. Resume.

LOG IN

Go to MY ACCOUNT Page –  in the side navigation bar

Click on Update my Membership

Once your subscription has ended, you will no longer have access to your membership weekly menus, member recipes or benefits.

NEVER – we know what that feels like. We only send you our newsletter and protect your privacy. 

NO. Pop-up advertising is annoying and intrusive!

Our only popup is on our member recipes to explain membership to non-members and a little about our mission.

Please use our contact us form or email info@botanicalkitchen.com.

It means eating nourishing food to support your body.  It means eating a rainbow array of colourful and vibrant plants every day to help balance your health and wellness. Eating to thrive is intentional eating which is the opposite of just eating “whatever” processed, life-dulling foods.

It is the ultimate empowerment of each individual who wants to choose nutrient-dense food to experience the benefits of eating vibrant foods, feeling great and thriving.

NO – Botanical Kitchen is a small women-owned business by founder Karina Hines she | her.

NO.  Please contact your healthcare provider for medical advice. Botanical Kitchen supports farmers and healthcare providers to help people learn “how-to” skills to cook with confidence and eat to Thrive! 

The information on this site is about plants, food as medicine and nutritional benefits. The information on this website is about cooking and eating fabulous food and is for educational purposes only.

*The information on this website is for educational purposes and is not intended to diagnose, treat, prevent, or cure any disease or been evaluated by the FDA.