The Best Blogs for Healthy Recipes

Vegetarian

1. Naturally Ella
   

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1. Naturally Ella
   After her father had a heart attack, Erin Alderson (whose initials are ELLA) broke up with fast food and all processed meat. Her blog features seasonal vegetarian recipes that are pantry-inspired. Despite ditching Big Macs, Alderson doesn't believe in being obsessive or counting calories (her philosophy is simply to exercise and eat well). Given the results—beautifully photographed whole foods we want to gobble up immediately (curried vegetarian meatballs, we're looking at you!)—it's easy to see why her approach works.

2. Minimalist Baker
   
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3. Minimalist Baker
   Few things are more disappointing than finding what seems like the perfect recipe only to click and learn that it has more than 20 ingredients, several of which you've never heard of. True to its name, Minimalist Baker keeps things simple by sticking to 10 ingredients or less and limiting cook time to 30 minutes tops. Bonus: The recipes are anything but boring! From General Tso's tofu stir fry (pictured) to spicy buffalo chickpea wraps to toasted coconut pancakes, the culinary duo (John and Kate) really know how to pack tons of flavor into simple and oh-so-delicious dishes.

4. Food Heaven Made Easy
   
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5. Food Heaven Made Easy
   Food Heaven Made Easy sounds like the name of an amazingly delicious food delivery service, but don't be fooled. The blog is actually a compilation of recipes, cooking videos, and nutrition tips. Adorable and extremely well-dressed dietitians Wendy Lopez and Jessica Jones appear in every video, teaching home cooks (no matter how strapped for time or inexperienced in the kitchen) that making healthy recipes from scratch is possible.

6. 101 Cookbooks

Back in 2003, Heidi Swanson launched 101 Cookbooks with the goal of cooking through her monstrous collection of recipe books. More than 10 years later, the blog (which we want to live in, it's so gorgeous) focuses on natural, whole foods and Heidi's travels. Naturally it has won multiple awards, been featured in countless publications, and even turned into two bestselling cookbooks. Her latest, Near & Far: Recipes Inspired by Home and Travel, came out in late 2015.

1. Green Kitchen Stories
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2. Green Kitchen Stories
   The globe-trotting family behind Green Kitchen Stories is hardly stuck on one type of cuisine. David and Luise met while studying in Rome before moving to Stockholm to start a family. They document their vegetarian cooking experiments on the blog, and they believe variety is the most important thing in a diet. Don't forget to follow them both on Instagram; David's and Luise's accounts will inspire you to live and eat better every day.

3. My New Roots
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4. My New Roots
   A self-taught cook, Sarah Britton started blogging in 2007 to share her knowledge of holistic nutrition. (She attended the Institute of Holistic Nutrition in Toronto.) She's passionate about whole and vegan food—and creates mouthwatering recipes that prove it. You'll find everything from chunky chocolate buckwheat granola to sweet potato noodle soup (pictured). We love that you can also pick recipes by season.

5. Golubka Kitchen
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6. Golubka Kitchen
   Anya Kassoff was born and raised in Russia but now calls Florida home. She believes that the healthiest food is also the best-tasting food. Ant it doesn't hurt that her recipes, which are shot by her oldest daughter, are stunning. You'll find everything from a simmered squash soba bowl (pictured) to more indulgent dishes, like this rum and raisin bundt, which was inspired by a craving for her childhood favorite Russian rum babka.

Vegan

1. The Full Helping
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2. The Full Helping
   In 2015, Gena Hamshaw changed the name of her blog from Choosing Raw to The Full Helping. Now she posts recipes that are less extreme, although she is still inspired by her raw food background. Check out this gluten-free plum and blackberry crisp (pictured) or her totally addictive creamy cashew carrot dressing and quinoa bowl. As a certified nutritionist, Hamshaw brings lots of nutritional wisdom to the kitchen. She is also candid about being in recovery from anorexia and orthorexia and uses her site to encourage others to heal their broken relationship with food (often through plant-based diets).

3. Deliciously Ella
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4. Deliciously Ella
   All kinds of mouthwatering, plant-based dishes (including chickpea, quinoa, and turmeric curry; coconut and raspberry mousse; and sage and apricot nut roast with cranberry sauce) are turned out in Ella Woodward's sunny U.K. kitchen. But not everything here is sunbeams and smoothies: This blog is the result of the author's struggle with postural tachycardia syndrome, a rare and devastating disease that prompted her to revamp her diet and ditch processed foods.

5. Running on Real Food
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6. Running on Real Food
   Raw almond chocolate chip cookies, pumpkin spice latte granola, vegan tofu and cashew fried rice—workout fuel has never looked so good. Written by an avid triathlete and certified trainer, Running on Real Food covers nutritionally dense foods and fitness in a relatable way. Best of all, the author's healthy-eating philosophy is an open door: "There's no right or wrong way to eat healthy... We're all different with different nutritional requirements; however we all need to eat whole, nutritious foods. Start there." We couldn't have said it better ourselves.

7. Sweet Potato Soul
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8. Sweet Potato Soul
   The name says it all: This blog is all about real food prepared with heart and soul. Vegan chef Jenné Claiborne's recipes look so indulgent and appetizing, we believe her when she calls one cookie recipe "life-changing." Recipes aside, Claiborne does an amazing job detailing all the ways her revamped diet has improved her life—from better digestion to thicker, healthier hair—carrying the banner forward for plant-powered peeps.

9. Oh She Glows
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10. Oh She Glows
    Blogger Angela Liddon reclaimed her health by creating vegan recipes that are free of gluten and soy. But her creations also had to appeal to her husband, who, at the time, was "a devout fast-food lover" that "drank pop like water." Her efforts—recipes like smoky butternut squash sauce with pasta and greens; vegan Caesar salad; and sun-dried tomato, mushroom, and spinach tofu quiche—not only swayed her sig O, but a massive following of readers.

11. Healthy, Happy Life
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12. Healthy, Happy Life
    It can be difficult to make vegan versions of classic comfort foods such as mac and cheese and pizza. But blogger and author Kathy Patalsky has created hundreds of beautiful and nutritious vegan recipes that taste like a million bucks (and not chewy or chalky meat- and cheese-free nightmares). Though some of her dishes can be a bit more complicated to make, there are plenty of options that even beginner cooks can master.

13. The First Mess
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14. The First Mess
    Laura, the blogger behind The First Mess, is a culinary school graduate from Ontario. She's passionate about a few things: cooking with natural foods, eating seasonally, and sharing wholesome meals with the people in her life. Most of her recipes are vegan and gluten-free. Don't miss her the almond sweet potato biscuits and mushroom gravy and grilled butternut and radicchio pizza.

Paleo

1. Nom Nom Paleo
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2. Nom Nom Paleo
   Michelle Tam's pigtailed avatar appears all over her blog, giving helpful tips in speech bubbles, comic-book style. It's a little aesthetic clue that Tam marches to the beat of her own Paleo drum. Another major difference is her degree in nutrition and food science, which, paired with her serious foodie know-how, have made her the Paleo point-person for various gourmand publications, including Saveur, America's Test Kitchen, Serious Eats, and The Kitchn.

3. PaleOMG
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4. PaleOMG
   Certain Paleo circles can be overrun with CrossFit dudes making terrible puns about "snatches," so Juli Bauer's decidedly feminine take comes as a breath of fresh air. Bauer raves about fashion finds as much as deadlift technique, proving this girl can beast with the best of them. Clothing and workouts aside, one of this blog's biggest draws is the simple, straightforward Paleo recipes, like sausage stuffed bacon wrapped dates and beef kabobs. And unlike some Paleo peeps, Bauer isn't opposed to a little sweet stuff, whether that's chocolate coffee protein chia breakfast bowls (pictured) or coffee cake.

Gluten-Free

1. Sassy Kitchen
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2. Sassy Kitchen
   Julia Gartland combined her passion for photography with a quest to heal her health on her blog Sassy Kitchen. Due to digestive issues, she experimented with raw and vegan diets before landing on one that was gluten-free. Now she's on the lookout for gluten-free versions of everything, like this raspberry cornmeal muffin recipe. We love that you can search her recipes by diet needs (there are dairy-free, gluten-free, vegan, and vegetarian options), as well as meal type and season.

3. My Darling Lemon Thyme
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4. My Darling Lemon Thyme
   Emma Galloway worked as a chef for eight years before realizing that she suffered from gluten and lactose intolerance. She started blogging in 2010, sharing gluten-free, vegetarian recipes, as well as articles and tips on organic gardening. We can't wait to try her popsicle recipes when the weather warms up!

Clean Eating or Whole-Food Focused

1. Sprouted Kitchen
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2. Sprouted Kitchen
   This blog resembles the pages of a glossy food magazine with a fleet of stylists making sure every bite looks impossibly scrumptious. But behind the scenes, there's just one incredible couple, Sara and Hugh Forte. The division of labor is simple: She cooks and blogs; he photographs. The result elevates whole-food ingredients to epic proportions. Sandwiches, noodles, green salads, and other divine dishes have earned the attention of many in the food world, including Saveur magazine, which named Sprouted Kitchen one of the best original recipe blogs.

3. Skinny Taste
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4. Skinnytaste
   Blogger Gina Homolka outlines a simple formula on her site: "Exercise + a well-balanced diet + good sleep = a happy life." And really, why complicate that? Her recipes for baked sweet potato skins and shrimp summer rolls with peanut hoisin dipping sauce prove that eating a rainbow of whole foods is pleasing to the eye, the palate, and the rest of your body too. Plus, Homolka has a sense of humor and isn't above trying recipes from the 50 Shades of Chicken cookbook.