Best Vegan & Plant-Based Food Blogs 2026 (25+ Picks)

The most famous vegan blogs in the world mostly stopped blogging years ago — and every "best vegan blogs" list is still recommending them. Our July 2026 crawl of the 25 plant-based blogs in the AwesomeBloggers directory found a brutal split: blogs in this niche either published within the past ten weeks or fell silent more than a year ago — almost nothing sits in between. A third of them haven't posted since early 2025 or before, and it's the celebrity generation of the 2010s vegan boom that's gone quiet. No Meat Athlete last posted in December 2022. Green Kitchen Stories in March 2024. Deliciously Ella's domain no longer hosts a blog at all — it's a storefront for their snack brand.

Meanwhile, working bloggers who rarely make the big lists — Domestic Gothess, Nora Cooks, Jessica in the Kitchen — kept publishing all through the spring and summer of 2026 — and outscore the legends outright.

Most vegan blog lists rank reputation. We measured whether the site is actually alive. Every entry below carries its Awesome Score from our 7-metric crawl (domain authority, freshness, speed, mobile experience, content volume, SSL, design), the date of its most recent post, and a plain label for the question vegan readers actually care about: is this blog strictly vegan, or vegetarian with a plant-based lean? That's also why we rank differently than Feedspot — reputation-based lists can't tell you which of their picks went dark in 2022.

One scope note before the rankings: this list covers strictly-vegan blogs and vegetarian blogs whose recipes are majority plant-based — and we label which is which on every entry. It's a deeper cut of the plant-based cluster from our overall best food blogs of 2026 ranking, where only four of these blogs appeared. Ranked entries come from our directory and are scored; the hand-picked recommendations further down are labeled "not in our directory" and carry no score. Blogs qualify for the ranked list by scoring at least 40/100 and publishing within 90 days of our crawl. Ties break on raw domain authority, then archive size.

The Full Rankings at a Glance

Top Picks by Use Case

The Top 10, Ranked by Score

1. Chocolate Covered Katie — Awesome Score: 80

Vegan desserts — nearly every recipe is vegan, and the exceptions are labeled. Katie Higgins has run "The Healthy Dessert Blog" since 2011, engineering sweets around dates, beans, and unrefined sugar — the black-bean-brownie school of baking — with a dietary matrix (gluten-free, sugar-free, soy-free) on every recipe. The surprise isn't that a dessert blog tops a vegan list; it's the data behind it: 2,683 posts, the second-largest archive in the ranking, and a perfect freshness score with posts in the first week of July 2026. No editorial list would put her above Oh She Glows. Our crawler did.

2. Cookie and Kate — Awesome Score: 80

Vegetarian, not vegan — and we label it that way because vegan readers deserve to know before they click. Kathryne Taylor's whole-food, seasonal cooking earns the same 80/100 as our number one, with the tie broken on archive size (1,297 posts to Katie's 2,683). If you cook for a household where some meals include dairy or eggs, this is the strongest all-round kitchen blog in the plant-based space, posting as recently as July 2, 2026.

3. Jessica in the Kitchen — Awesome Score: 79

Strictly vegan. Jessica Hylton's award-winning blog spans global cuisines with an approachability that makes it the best first vegan blog to follow — recipes assume no special pantry and no prior tofu skills. A 1,245-post archive and perfect freshness score put it one point off the top spot.

4. Nora Cooks — Awesome Score: 75

Strictly vegan. The tagline is "simple, tasty, affordable," and the blog delivers exactly that — no cheffy garnish shots, no 40-minute reads before the recipe card. This is the quiet workhorse of everyday veganism: 759 posts, publishing into mid-June 2026, and a higher score than every celebrity vegan blog of the 2010s.

5. Rainbow Plant Life — Awesome Score: 74

Strictly vegan. Nisha Vora is a James Beard Award nominee, and it shows: this is where vegan cooking gets treated as a first choice rather than a substitution exercise. When you want to cook one ambitious weekend meal that would convince a skeptic, start here. Last post May 28, 2026.

6. Love and Lemons — Awesome Score: 73

Vegetarian, not vegan. Jeanine Donofrio is a New York Times bestselling author, and her 1,879-recipe archive is organized around whatever is fresh right now — salads, grain bowls, and vegetable-forward mains without obscure specialty ingredients. One honest caveat from the crawl: the site's speed score (4/10) is among the weaker ones here, so expect a heavier page load than the cooking deserves.

7. Domestic Gothess — Awesome Score: 73

Strictly vegan baking — cakes, cookies, pies, and comfort bakes without eggs or dairy, which remains the hardest technical corner of vegan cooking. Two data points worth knowing: an 826-post archive dedicated almost entirely to baking, and a 10/10 speed score — the fastest site in this entire ranking. Most ad-heavy recipe blogs make you wait; this one doesn't.

8. Vegan Richa — Awesome Score: 72

Strictly vegan. Richa Hingle's Indian-inspired recipes are the definitive answer to "vegan food is bland" — and at 2,248 posts, hers is one of the largest strictly-vegan archives on the internet. If your cooking lives on beans, lentils, and spice, no other blog on this list goes deeper.

9. Minimalist Baker — Awesome Score: 70

Plant-based, mostly vegan — recipes require 10 ingredients or less, one bowl, or under 30 minutes, and the discipline is real across a 1,347-post archive. The crawl found its weak spot too: a 0/10 speed score — brilliant recipes, sluggish phone experience.

10. A Couple Cooks — Awesome Score: 70

Vegetarian-forward, not fully meat-free — Sonja and Alex Overhiser's blog centers plant-based cooking but doesn't exclude everything else, so check the label if you're strict. What earns the ranking is scale and reliability: 3,912 posts, the largest archive on this list, still publishing as of mid-June 2026. It also shares Minimalist Baker's 0/10 speed score.

Ranked 11–16: The Rest of the Field

11. 101 Cookbooks — Awesome Score: 67

Vegetarian. Heidi Swanson has published natural-food recipes since 2003, which makes this the longest-running blog in the ranking — and it posted on July 3, 2026, a week before this article went up. Twenty-three years in, it's aging better than blogs half its age. Our feed-based crawl only detects its most recent posts, so its volume score understates an archive that spans two decades.

12. Lazy Cat Kitchen — Awesome Score: 66

Strictly vegan. Plant-based recipes from all over the world — 800+ of them — with an emphasis on making world cuisine work in an ordinary home kitchen. It publishes steadily (last post June 20, 2026) and scores within striking distance of the top 10.

13. Running on Real Food — Awesome Score: 64

Strictly vegan, built for training. This is the only active blog in our directory focused on plant-based athlete fuel — macro-conscious recipes for people who count grams of protein, not just servings of vegetables. Its last post (May 1, 2026) puts it closer to our 90-day activity line than most of this list; we'll be watching the next crawl. For the broader fitness picture, our health and fitness blog ranking covers the omnivorous side.

14. The First Mess — Awesome Score: 62

Strictly vegan. Laura Wright's seasonal, produce-driven cooking is some of the most beautiful writing in the niche, and the 584-post archive holds up. The score is honest about the trade-off: 0/10 on both speed and mobile experience in our crawl — a genuinely lovely blog that badly needs a performance pass.

15. Oh She Glows — Awesome Score: 57

Strictly vegan — and yes, still alive, barely. Angela Liddon's blog is one of the most influential vegan sites ever written, and millions still search for it. Here's what our crawler found in July 2026: a last post on May 7, 2026, and only ten recent posts detected in its feed — a publishing pace that is a fraction of its 2010s peak. The 57/100 reflects a site in maintenance mode, not a decline in recipe quality. The archive remains gold; just don't expect much new.

16. Easy Cheesy Vegetarian — Awesome Score: 47

Vegetarian. Formerly known as Amuse Your Bouche — worth knowing if you lost track of it after the rebrand. Simple, unfussy vegetarian comfort food, still publishing as of May 25, 2026. The score sits at the lower end of the ranked field, dragged down mostly by domain authority rather than content quality.

Beyond the Directory: 12 Vegan Blogs We Recommend

These twelve aren't in our directory (yet), so they carry no Awesome Score — but we verified every one of them was actively publishing when we checked their feeds on July 10, 2026. They fill the corners where our directory is thinnest: vegan baking, budget cooking, fermentation, and international depth.

It Doesn't Taste Like Chicken — Recommended (not in our directory)

Sam Turnbull's comfort-food veganism is aimed squarely at skeptics, and her monthly "Cook With Sam Challenge" cook-along (the July 2026 edition is live) is a community format most recipe blogs never attempt. Four posts in the first week of July 2026 — one of the fastest cadences we found anywhere.

PlantYou — Recommended (not in our directory)

Carleigh Bodrug built a New York Times-bestselling cookbook brand on "scrappy" root-to-stem cooking — recipes that use the peels, stems, and scraps you'd normally bin. It posted four times in the two weeks before our July 2026 check, and it's the highest-profile name on our external list.

Plant-Based on a Budget — Recommended (not in our directory)

Toni Okamoto's blog does one job better than anyone: vegan eating on a tight grocery budget, with free meal plans and recipes built from shelf-stable staples. Weekly posts through late June and early July 2026.

From My Bowl — Recommended (not in our directory)

Caitlin Shoemaker's recipes carry explicit high-protein and allergen labeling (vegan, gluten-free, nut-free), with a meal-prep slant that fills the athlete-adjacent gap in the vegan space. Posts on July 9, June 30, and June 26, 2026.

School Night Vegan — Recommended (not in our directory)

Richard Makin — author of Anything You Can Cook, I Can Cook Vegan — writes chef-level vegan food on a weeknight timetable, with a tofu-technique library (pressing, marinades, silken vs extra-firm selection) attached to the recipes. UK-based; last major posts May 2026.

Full of Plants — Recommended (not in our directory)

Thomas Pagot's blog is the internet's reference for artisan vegan cheesemaking — aged camembert-style and blue cashew cheeses, from-scratch tempeh, real fermentation depth — alongside weeknight Asian-inspired mains. Posting weekly through July 9, 2026, from France.

The Vegan 8 — Recommended (not in our directory)

Brandi Doming's editorial constraint is a hard ceiling, not a tagline: every recipe uses 8 ingredients or fewer (salt and water excluded), vegan, gluten-free, and oil-free. Posts through mid-June 2026.

Delightful Adventures — Recommended (not in our directory)

Gwen Leron bakes at the intersection most baking blogs dodge: 100% gluten-free AND vegan, with tested, specified flour blends rather than "use your favorite GF mix" hand-waving. Posts through June 12, 2026.

Bianca Zapatka — Recommended (not in our directory)

Visually maximalist vegan cooking and baking published fully bilingually in German and English, with step-photo sequences on every recipe — from flourless lentil bread to Spaghetti all'Assassina. Posted July 9, 2026.

Earthly Provisions — Recommended (not in our directory)

Megan Calipari brings 15 years of professional bakery and restaurant experience to vegan baking and easy meals — the pro-baker credentials show in the ratios. Posts through late June 2026.

Holy Cow Vegan — Recommended (not in our directory)

Vaishali Honawar has blogged vegan Indian regional cuisine since 2007 — with South Indian, North Indian, and Konkani sub-indexes — plus a vegan sourdough program whose starter has been alive since 2016. Fresh seasonal recipes on the homepage in July 2026. Pairs naturally with Vegan Richa for Indian depth.

Pick Up Limes — Recommended (not in our directory)

Sadia Badiei's team builds nutrition-science-guided plant-based content — she's a dietitian by training, the recipes come with the reasoning, and the operation now spans an app with 1,800+ recipes and a cookbook shipping October 2026. The site doesn't date its posts, but the operation is unmistakably active.

Which Famous Vegan Blogs Are Still Publishing in 2026?

This is the question no "best vegan blogs" list answers, so here is what our crawler actually found. These blogs built the plant-based internet — and most of them have quietly stopped. Their archives are still worth your time; their feeds mostly aren't. Treat this as documentation, not a takedown: bloggers graduate to cookbooks, apps, and product lines, and the sites stay up as libraries.

A few of these deserve a sentence of context. My New Roots — Sarah Britton's holistic-nutrition kitchen — was for years the standard-bearer for whole-food plant-based cooking; its 1,695-post archive remains one of the best in the niche. Green Kitchen Stories, the Swedish family-recipe institution, went quiet in early 2024. No Meat Athlete defined plant-based endurance sports for a decade before Matt Frazier moved on; the training-nutrition archive is still the reference. And Deliciously Ella completed the full brand arc: deliciouslyella.com today is a Shopify storefront for their snack products, with the recipes living in their app. There is no blog left to score — so rather than publish a number we can't stand behind, we've left it unranked. That's the same methodology standard applied to every site here: when we can't measure honestly, we say so.

How We Scored These Blogs

Every ranked blog was crawled by our scoring engine in July 2026 and scored out of 100 across seven metrics: domain authority (25), content freshness (20), volume (15), design and trust signals (15), page speed (10), mobile experience (10), and SSL (5). The full methodology is public. Two rules specific to this article: ranked entries need a score of at least 40 and a post within 90 days of the crawl — dormant blogs live in the section above, not the rankings — and ties break on raw domain authority, then archive size. Scores refresh weekly, and the live version of this ranking is always on our Food & Recipes category page.

One pattern the crawl surfaced across the niche: successful plant-based blogs are slow. Minimalist Baker, A Couple Cooks, and The First Mess all scored 0/10 on speed — most likely the cost of the ad stacks that fund free recipes — while only Domestic Gothess managed a perfect speed score. If a page feels sluggish while you're cooking with wet hands, it's not your phone.

Run a vegan blog we missed — or one of the external picks above? Submit it to the directory and it gets the same 7-metric scoring as everyone on this list. Vegan baking is our thinnest category, and we'd like to fix that.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What is the best vegan food blog in 2026?

A: By measured score, Chocolate Covered Katie (80/100) — the healthy-dessert blog Katie Higgins has run since 2011, with 2,683 posts and new recipes in July 2026. For savory everyday cooking, Jessica in the Kitchen (79/100) and Nora Cooks (75/100) are the strongest strictly-vegan picks.

Q: Is Oh She Glows still active in 2026?

A: Barely. Our July 2026 crawl found its most recent post dated May 7, 2026, and only ten recent posts in its feed — a small fraction of its 2010s publishing pace. The blog scores 57/100, reflecting maintenance mode rather than declining quality. The archive is still excellent.

Q: What happened to Deliciously Ella's blog?

A: It no longer exists as a blog. As of July 2026, deliciouslyella.com is an e-commerce storefront for the brand's snack products, and the recipes have moved into the Deliciously Ella app. We left it unranked because there is no blog content left to measure.

Q: Is Cookie and Kate vegan?

A: No — Cookie and Kate is vegetarian, not vegan. Many recipes are vegan or clearly labeled with vegan adaptations, but dairy and eggs appear throughout the site. It scores 80/100 in our ranking, tied for the highest score in the plant-based niche.

Q: What's the difference between vegan and plant-based?

A: Vegan means no animal products at all — no meat, dairy, eggs, or honey. Plant-based is looser: centered on plants but sometimes including small amounts of animal products. That's why we label every blog on this list as strictly vegan, vegetarian, or plant-based, so you know before you click.

Q: What are the best vegan blogs like Oh She Glows?

A: For the same whole-food vegan style with an active publishing schedule, the closest matches are Nora Cooks (75/100), Rainbow Plant Life (74/100), and The First Mess (62/100) — all strictly vegan, all publishing within weeks of our July 2026 crawl.

Q: Why isn't my favorite vegan blog on this list?

A: Three common reasons: it went dormant (no posts in 90+ days moves a blog out of the rankings — that's what happened to Green Kitchen Stories and My New Roots), it scored below our 40/100 listing floor, or it's corporate-owned rather than independent (we don't rank company-run content sites, only blogs run by the people who cook the food). If it's independent and active, submit it.

Q: How were these scores calculated?

A: Each blog was crawled in July 2026 and scored across seven weighted metrics: domain authority (25 points), freshness (20), content volume (15), design and trust (15), page speed (10), mobile experience (10), and SSL (5). The scoring engine and weights are documented on our methodology page, and scores refresh weekly.