🌿 Vegan Recipes + Sustainable Lifestyle

Inspired Epicurean is a food and lifestyle blog featuring plant-based comfort food, sustainable lifestyle ideas, and much more. Here, you will find vegan recipes, older flexitarian recipes, and lifestyle content that aligns with a low-impact, eco-friendly footprint.

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Savory Collard Green Stems

When you're done enjoying a batch of our miso collard greens, save the stems and make an entirely new, delicious side dish.

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Take a closer look at our most popular recipes and guides to living a more sustainable life. Flexitarian recipes celebrate our plant-forward (but not quite vegan) days, and our newest content celebrates all things "vegan cuisine!" Scroll down to view specific recipe categories.

Explore delicious recipes ranging from vegan and plant-based meals to plant-forward flexitarian recipes that merge traditional heirloom classics with a modern, more healthful twist. Healthy comfort food is easy, approachable, and quickly becoming the gold standard. We wouldn't have it any other way. 

🌱 Vegan Recipes

Delightful vegan recipes celebrate Mother Nature with dishes that are plant-based, beautiful, and enticing for every palate. Bursting with flavor and simple to make, you'll find a little of everything: healthy comfort food, simple snacks, and elegant dishes fit for the finest occasion.

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💪🏼 Flexitarian Recipes

These plant-forward, flexitarian recipes are too good not to share. Developed prior to our vegan switch, these recipes are a great option to explore dishes that are fantastic for any occasion, or as a transition to a vegan diet. *Note: The majority of these recipes can be adapted to a vegan diet with appropriate substitutions.

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About Melanie

Welcome to Inspired Epicurean, a space to bring vegan recipes and sustainable living tips to the mainstream. As a recipe developer who believes simple, healthy food and low-impact living can still be luxurious, I hope you'll find recipes, resources, tips, and discussions that will help you embrace a life that inspires.

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A sustainable lifestyle goes hand-in-hand with a vegan diet. In fact, vegan recipes are the ideal starting point to embrace more eco-friendly habits. While you chow down on some delicious treats, take a look at posts that cover sustainable lifestyle tips, personal updates, and much more.