Why You Should Follow Recipes
When you make recipes, you know exactly what ingredients you’re using, and that what you’re making will turn out right. Also, you can use the same ingredients for more than one recipe. Another reason to make recipes is that you have more options. There are countless recipes online and in books.
What Kinds of Recipes Do You Like?
There literally is a recipe for everything. Seriously. Obviously, every recipe I talk about is vegan (this is a vegan blog, after all), but I want you to know that even if you’re not vegan, there are vegan recipe(s) you will like (or even love). I promise! If you are vegan or want to be, then just know that this blog post may change your life. Yes! I’m so serious. When I found recipes that fit my preferences, it was life-changing for me! I found so many amazing vegan recipe blogs, but there are only a few that I go back to again and again. What are your tastes and preferences? To give you an example, I prefer savory, smoky, barbecue, southwestern, Mediterranean, and Italian flavors. I love soups, hummus, salads, sandwiches, wraps, burgers, pizza, veggie dishes, pasta, stir frys, quinoa, lentils, and brown rice. I don’t have a sweet tooth, but my choice of sweets are granola, ice cream, cupcakes or cake, fudge, pancakes, and breads like pumpkin bread and banana bread. I have found incredible recipes for all of those, and there are plenty more recipes for every single eat you love!
Narrow It Down
Since I’m talking vegan recipes here, there are endless options. It seems to be true that the more choices people have sometimes, the more likely they’re to choose nothing at all and just give up. Please don’t let that be you! The amount of phenomenal recipes online can easily be overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be! Get specific. Do you like sweet or savory better? Do you want to eat more fruits, carbs, grains, fats, or protein? Do you want more raw or more cooked? Do you prefer Italian, Mexican, Mediterranean, American, Asian, Indian, or Jamaican the most? The vegan recipes I make and love from these blogs are nutritious, simple, and delicious.
What I Look For in Recipes
There are tons and tons of vegan recipes online, but I don’t just make any vegan recipe I see. I want the recipes I make to be: simple, healthy, delicious, and satisfying.
When I say simple, I mean few ingredients. A recipe containing so many ingredients could get complicated, not taste great, and be bad for digestion. It’s important for the recipes to be healthy, so that I can be my best. I love when some of the ingredients can be used to make other recipes as well. This saves time! Delicious and satisfying are a given. Of course, everyone wants every recipe they make to be delicious and satisfying! I’ve found my favorites from these incredible vegan recipe blogs that deliver and never disappoint!
Now on to the Best Vegan Recipe Blogs!
These are the recipe blogs I go to all the time! I make recipes from these blogs again and again! I have absolutely no doubt that you will love them, too! All of the vegan recipes on these blogs are delicious, healthy, and satisfying. Click on each website title (heading) to take you to the amazing recipes!
The Vegan 8
One word to describe Brandi Doming’s recipes: Genius! This is my absolute favorite recipe blog, ever! I tell as many people as I possibly can about The Vegan 8 because her recipes contain 8 ingredients or less, are healthy, simple, beyond delicious, gluten-free (the majority of the recipes on the blog), and oil-free! I’ve never made a recipe of hers that I didn’t love. Brandi is a creative genius! She’s also vegan, a mom, and a wife. Her blog is filled with a huge variety of whole plant food recipes that everyone loves, including non-vegans. I truly believe that creating recipes is her gift, and I’m so appreciative of her! One of my favorite recipes on her blog is the Hearty Italian White Bean Basil Soup. It’s my favorite soup I’ve ever had in my life!
Kimberly Snyder
One word to describe Kimberly Snyder’s recipes: Perfect! As a nutritionist who also talks about beauty, health, and lifestyle, her knowledge and recipes have changed my life in the best way possible! Kimberly Snyder has taught me how to eat for optimal digestion and health. All of her recipes are properly food combined, healthy, delicious, gluten-free, and simple. She’s a mom to a toddler, so she understands the importance of simple and healthy recipes that are not expensive and save time! I refer to her as my go-to for beauty, health, and eating. I’m guessing you could call me a super-fan of hers. Yep! Definitely. One of my favorite recipes on her blog is the Dill Chickpea Lemony Quinoa Salad. It’s so easy, yummy, fresh, and can be eaten warm or cold anywhere!
Detoxinista
One word to describe Megan Gilmore’s recipes: Simple! If you would have told me a few years ago that a recipe blog which doesn’t have every single one of its recipes vegan would be one of my go-to recipe blogs, I wouldn’t believe you. The thing is though that the majority of her recipes are vegan. If they’re not, you can customize them to make them vegan! She even includes vegan variations for most of them if they’re not vegan. Again, about 95% of her recipes are vegan. What attracted me to her blog so much is the ease and simplicity of her recipes. I mean her recipes are magical in how perfect they turn out with the simple ingredients, easiness of making them, quick time they take to prepare, and how absolutely delicious they are. They’re properly food combined, too! Megan is a mom of two, so she includes helpful and useful tips throughout her blog for busy parents of toddlers, including where to find the best deals when food shopping, kid-approved healthy recipes, meal planning for the whole family, and quick recipes that save time. One of my favorite recipes on her blog is the Healthy Granola. I love it with unsweetened vanilla almond milk!
The Glowing Fridge
One word to describe Shannon Leparski’s recipes: Fun! I love her recipes so much! They’re easy, simple, healthy, and delicious! A cool thing about Shannon’s recipes is that some of them are created to support the menstrual phase you’re in of your cycle, ladies. It’s so interesting how foods can be incredibly healing, and I’ve learned a lot about women’s health from her. She shares many yummy food finds she loves, like snacks, brands, and other healthy vegan eats, too. Her salad dressing recipes are the best salad dressings! One of my favorite recipes on her blog is the Vegan Pumpkin Bread. It’s the best, and I can’t even count how many times I’ve made this incredible pumpkin bread!
Choosing Chia
One word to describe Jess’s recipes: Colorful! Her recipes are fun, vibrant, healthy, simple, and delicious! She has lots of awesome popsicle, chia pudding, and gluten-free recipes. I love the many options she includes, and she has all of the yummy snack recipes on her blog! Jess has great food recommendations for restaurants in different cities that offer whole plant food options, which definitely makes traveling easier, less overwhelming, and more enjoyable. One of my favorite recipes on her blog is the Creamy Vegan Tomato Soup. It’s so simple, yet very flavorful!
Blissful Basil
One word to describe Ashley Melillo’s recipes: Decadent! Her recipes are unique, beautiful, delicious, and healthy! As a mom and psychologist, Ashley knows the importance of eating whole plant foods. She has a variety of amazing vegan recipe goodness that includes some of the best smoothies you’ll always want to have! The vegan recipes on her blog show how phenomenal whole plant foods are for our bodies, health, and minds. One of my favorite recipes on her blog is the Uplifting Carrot, Mango & Ginger Smoothie. It is one my favorite smoothies, ever!
From My Bowl
One word to describe Caitlin Shoemaker’s recipes: Easy! Her recipes are super easy to make with few ingredients. Caitlin has the best salad recipes and lots of awesome tempeh recipes! She has such an amazing balance of recipes that everyone will love. Most of them are gluten-free and oil-free. They’re affordable and simple to make that will suit anyone. One of my favorite recipes on her blog is the Smoky Tempeh. I love smoky, and tempeh goes with so many different foods!
Shane & Simple
One word to describe Shane Martin’s recipes: Comforting! His recipes are simple, affordable, and oil-free. He recreates a lot of the typical unhealthy comfort foods like hot dogs, macaroni and cheese, pancakes, biscuits, onion rings, and more. There are a lot of recipe roudups for the holidays, which is helpful. Changing his lifestyle saved his life as his health was not the best. He’s proving to everyone that anyone can eat vegan and change their life for the better with whole plant foods as a huge part of lifestyle. I love his Tomato Cucumber Salad. It’s so simple, quick to make, and delicious!
Tasting to Thrive
One word to describe Lauren McNeill’s recipes: Nourishing! The name of her blog says it all. You will thrive with her recipes. As a Registered Dietitian, she knows how to create recipes that are beneficial to your health. They taste perfect, are simple, and satiating. She has lots of sauce, soup, dressing, and healthy bowl recipes that are great to easily put together to eat whenever, wherever. My favorite recipe of hers that I’ve tried is the Greek Lemon Potatoes. They’re literally the best tasting potatoes I’ve ever had! That’s saying a lot because I love potatoes.
The Simple Veganista
One word to describe Julie’s recipes: Wholesome! Her easy, simple, and nutritous recipes are so awesome thst everyone will love them. This recipe blog is, by far, the absolute best organized recipe blog I’ve ever seen also making it the most user friendly and easiest to filter different recipes to find that you’re looking for. There’s a recipe index, courses (appetizer + snack, beverage, bread, breakfast + brunch, dessert, dinner, salad, side, and soup), dietary (gluten-free, grain-free, low-fat, nightshade-free, oil-free, raw recipes, refined sugar free, soy-free, tree nut-free, and well-balanced), ingredient (avocado, bean + legume, chickpea, chocolate, kale, quinoa, sweet potato, and tofu), method (10 ingredients or less, 30 minutes or less, budget friendly, comfort food, easy weeknight dinners, instant pot, kid friendly, one bowl, and slow cooker), and season (spring, summer, fall, winter, holiday). My favorite from here is the Lemon Rosemary White Bean Soup. It’s super simple and favorful!
Eating By Elaine
One word to describe Elaine Gordon’s recipes: Accommodating! All of her recipes can accommodate anyone as they are family-friendly and allergy-friendly. She has a Master of Public Health degree and is a Master Certified Health Education Specialist through the National Commission for health Education Credentialing, so this experience definitely comes in handy when creating recipes free of the most common allergens as well as nutritious, sinmple, and easy the whoe family will love. You can eat what you love and still live a healthy vegan lifestyle. The recipe I love the most of hers that I’ve had is the Creamy Broccoli & Zucchini Pasta Salad. It’s absolutely delicious and so satisfying!
Ending Thoughts
All of these recipe blogs have vegan recipes that are delicious, satisfying, and healthy. There’s so many recipes on each of these blogs that I’m confident you’ll love and will make again and again. These vegan recipes are amazing, have changed my life in a positively beautiful way, and I have favorite recipes on each that I never get tired of eating! Keep in mind that these are the recipe blogs I’ve made recipes from the most so far. There are still many wonderful vegan recipe blogs that I have yet to try, and I will keep my blog updated with more about it all when I do make more recipes from others. I hope this simplifies your eating for you, and shows you that eating vegan doesn’t have to be overwhelming. I’m sure these vegan recipe blogs will change your life in a beneficial way as they have changed mine! Now, go make some of these phenomenal vegan recipes!