31 Easy Vegan Recipes for Beginners - Pink Fortitude, LLC (2024)

So you want to try this vegan thing? Whether it’s Veganuary (Vegan January) or you want some simple and easy vegan recipes and plant-based meal plans, we’ve got you covered with 31 recipes – one to try each day of the month. Oh and PS – no tofu, no weird ingredients, and all recipes are gluten-free.

Let me start by saying there is zero judgment here. I grew up in a country/mountains community where people hunted game in the fall and that was their food for the winter. That being said, I rarely ate red meat. In fact, I’ve never had a hot dog. Like ever.

For years, and even before I got sick, I didn’t eat red meat. Just fish and poultry.

But after cancer and autoimmune disease and suffering from chronic fatigue, I wanted to clean up my diet for health reasons. I went 100% vegan for a long time.

My vegan journey has been all over the place:

100% vegan
Backslidden bacon-vegan
Pesco-vegan
6 days a week vegan.

So seriously, believe me when I say there is no judgment here. Regardless of your reason, I know it can be daunting to give up meat and enjoy a more plant-based diet.

Whether it’s for Veganuary (Vegan-January) or if you just want to learn how to cook vegan, you don’t have to be scared. I’ve curated 31 of the easiest and tastiest vegan recipes for you to learn. Try one new recipe a day!

No meat.

No fish.

Basically, nothing with eyes.

No eggs.

No milk, cheese, or any kind of dairy product.

Nothing that comes from an animal (like gelatin).

“Technically,” you can live off Skittles and call yourself a vegan. But the true essence of eating vegan is that you embrace a plant-based diet.

Forget politics. Nothing will divide a vegan community more than the controversy over honey. Honey is made by bees, so “technically” it’s not vegan. BUT… there are as many people in the vegan community who eat honey as those who do not.

I prefer to cook and bake with honey (or maple syrup) instead of sugar. I’m also (obviously) not a “hardcore” vegan.

Again. NO JUDGMENT.

You do you. I will love and accept you no matter what you eat.

I wanted these 31 recipes to be EASY. Like crazy simple easy to make.

While my S’mores Ice Cream Cake is the bees knees, it is WAAAAAY too complicated for a beginner vegan or vegan-curious. So here are the rules I made for myself to curate these 31 recipes for you:

Vegan (obviously).
Easy to make and not complicated.
Not a lot of steps or time involved.
No weird ingredients – mostly what you have on hand or can easily purchase at the store.
All recipes are gluten-free.
No tofu.
No smoothies.

And finally… I wanted them to look, act, and taste like the food that you are used to. Or close thereof.

That being said, as thoroughly vetted as the recipes are, always be sure to check the ingredients if you have any food allergies or restrictions.

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