04/04/2026
In 2024, I started little VegWithMandy.com to share recipes with family who asked for help in adding easy plant-based meals into their diet. They had little energy or motivation to cook but wanted to eat better. (I had been snail-mailing ✉️ recipes or texting them screen shots before then. 😅)
One family member flew down ✈️ and spent a week with us, while I taught easy recipes. A few months later after a doctor’s 🩺 visit she excitedly called to tell me about her lower A1C, cholesterol, weight… all while her energy was way up!
My heart 💚 was to make eating more plants more accessible. “Plant-based recipes: Fast. Easy. Affordable” has been my motto. And this call had me pumped!
In 2025, circumstances changed - I gladly accepted an opportunity to add more hours back at my primary career, and I shifted away from pursuing health coaching on the side.
I’ve also faced some health challenges; many days even I have been too tired and unmotivated to cook or create new recipes 😴. And that’s the reality for a lotta folks, right? 🤷♀️
I stopped posting. Since I wasn’t creating something original and exciting, I didn’t think it could help people. One week I had a health flare and I exhaustedly scrolled through old posts looking for recipe inspiration that required the least energy… And then it hit me.‼️
What if it doesn’t have to be original 💡 and exciting to be helpful? What if sometimes it’s just me sharing a brand of store-bought sauce I liked that helped me throw together a plant-based meal in under 30 mins? ⏱️
So here’s the deal. I’m not fancy. I’m practical. I’ve never been an influencer; I just wanted to be a helping hand. 🤝
So if you’d like to add some plant-based meals 🌱 into your diet, have low energy/motivation, but still want to eat healthy (and sometimes just healthy-ish 😉 ), I plan to start posting some again.
Add me on Instagram .
To keep it simple, I’m not going to be posting the recipes/food inspo on Facebook or my other IG accounts (personal or VettedCoach), just VegWithMandy.
Best,
~Mandy
