Wholesome bowls - food for mind, body and soul, is all about healing your relationship with food. Food is not the enemy and neither is your body. Taking the time to get to know your body, treating it with respect and nourishing it with real fresh food is the single most important thing you can do for yourself. Eating mindfully, cutting out processed foods and embracing the foods that fuel you and leave you feeling energised are all part of the journey to finding happiness with food. The nearly 90 recipes included in this book are packed with nourishment, providing healthy, balanced and easy meals in a bowl. Many of the recipes are vegan or vegetarian, or can easily be adapted to suit either lifestyle choice. But there is plenty for the meat-eater too.

HEAL - begin with food is Melissa’s latest book and is available online or in stores.

After the success of her first book, Whole – Bowl Food for Balance, which shares the journey of moving away from fad dieting and healing our relationship with food through mindful eating, Melissa Delport decided to dive deeper into health and look at why we make the food choices we do. 

Heal – begin with food aims to share information on how to eat healthier, support the body’s various systems, heal ailments, and live a life of energy and abundance through beautiful whole food cooking.

I work as an intuitive chef specialising in utterly delicious high vibrational plant based food. As a qualified integrative holistic health coach I combine my skills with food and knowledge of health and wellness into using food as medicine.

If you require a chef for a private function or event please do not hesitate to reach out about my plant-led cooking that focuses on abundant flavour, simplicity and the quality of ingredients.

My mission is to elevate the mental and spiritual impact our relationship with food and cooking has on our lives to the same level as the physical, nutritional side. It’s about the importance of honouring mind, body and soul in our food by reconnecting to the joy of food and cooking.

As a professional Photographer Melissa works with a variety of clients and brands. Her work has been featured in Women’s Health to House and Leisure. Not only working as a food photographer but as a lifestyle photographer capturing people, places, spaces and more!

Melissa works as a food stylist creating beautiful imagery with well thought out composition and perfect colour use. Working in both the commercial and advertising industry creating mouth watering images for her clients. Melissa also works with restaurants as well as boutique clients that require tailor made imagery and content.