We'll show you how to cook easy vegan meals with the whole food plant-based ingredients you have on hand!

Save time, save money, get healthy, and have fun doing it when you cook FREESTYLE! Plus, VeganCoach.com is 100% ad-free. No pop-ups and weird messages, just pure help with creating a vegan diet along with a functional and supportive kitchen.

Learn how to cook home-style meals and menus in the real world -- where your time is precious and you need nutritious meals that don't take you an hour to make!

You'll prepare home-style, creative and delicious dishes prepared in a way that makes sense and works for your busy life.

Just like the improvisational performer who flies by the seat of their pants without a script, you'll learn how to go into your kitchen, see what's on hand, and then get cooking without a recipe.

I promise it's the way you've always wanted to cook because it's easy, you use up the food you have on hand so nothing goes to waste, and everything is based on the foods and flavors that you love making everything you create perfectly suited to your taste buds.

In Fact, We Take Cooking One Step Further...

...because not only will you learn how to cook TASTY MEALS based on the flavors that you love, but we'll show you how to make NUTRITIONALLY BALANCED whole-foods based meals that are good for you, too!

Since 2007 we've been showing vegan home cooks like you how to pull together flavorful AND well-balanced whole food plant-based meals because if your food doesn't provide the nutrients you need, what's the point?

We have all the tools you need that make it easier than ever to be a vegan success story and we're ready to help you get there.

Check out these beautiful made-from-scratch FREESTYLE Stuffed Bell Peppers drizzled with a creamy Smoky Cashew Sauce created without a recipe in sight.

First, you'll see a display of the fresh produce I had on hand to work with and how I used some of the ingredients to pull together this delicious and nutritious meal based on whole foods.

And when my next mealtime rolls around, I'll once again check to see what I have on hand and select a few more ingredients to create a meal on-the-fly.

This concept of how to make whole food plant-based (WFPB) meals without a recipe is what we'll teach you here on our website and in our online classes.

Those days are over of hunting down recipes and making huge grocery lists filled with ingredients you'll only use once.

No more stocking your fridge with produce meant for your carefully-selected recipes only to find your life has other plans and you don't have the time you thought you would.

When you cook recipe-free, you can usually pull off a flavorful, gorgeous and well-balanced dish many times in less than 30 minutes that you can be proud of!

Say goodbye to waste because when you learn how to cook without recipes, you'll use up everything in your fridge.

And because you're using the ingredients you have on hand, you can stick to the vegan diet that makes you happy, whether that means oil-free, gluten-free, soy-free, nut-free, you name it. You'll learn how to cook what you want, when you want it every single time.

We have so much here at Vegan Coach for you to discover...

Here are some of our most helpful pages and most popular vegan diet tips for you to explore:

1. Learn how to cook vegan food custom-made to your exact tastes.

Our Vegan Cooking Guide provides a long list of vegan foods, with detailed instructions on how to clean and prep each food, suggested cooking techniques, and "Flavor Matches" so you can build your own unique recipes on-the-fly, quickly and easily.

For instance, ever get bored with broccoli? Ho-Hum. (Yawwwwn.)

A visit to our Cooking Guide can help! There's a world of delicious ideas just waiting for you to glam onto.

In this example, you'd simply find "broccoli" on the food list, and then follow the link to learn how to select your broccoli, how to clean and cook it and how to mix and match suggested flavors and cooking techniques. Super cool. And SO helpful too.

I promise you'll learn to whip up fantastic new and unique dishes while you add to your cooking skills every single time you step into the kitchen. Cooking skills that will stay with you for the rest of your life.

By the way...our Cooking Guide can also help if you have a recipe or two that you like, but it just needs SOMETHING -- you can't put your finger on it. The "Flavor Matches" will help you find the foods, herbs and spices that match perfectly with your chosen ingredient -- and add one (or more) of them to your recipe. You'll create a new recipe all your own!

2. Visit Cooking From Scratch to see a REAL LIVE VEGAN in action!   :O)

In our Vegan Coach world, cooking from scratch means taking whole foods from their raw state (like beans, whole grains, and veggies), cooking them up, then mixing and matching to make your very own one-of-a-kind vegan dishes. Click for examples of how you can easily learn how to cook from scratch every day.

And each and every dish I share with you includes a photo with a full explanation of how I pulled the dish together like these OMG-these-are-outstanding-and-I-can't-get-enough Quinoa Breakfast Wraps. Yummmm...

3. Cooking yummy food is only half of the equation. It's also important to create meals that will support your good health.

If you've found yourself removing animal foods from your diet, but you haven't replaced them with plant-based foods that supply equal (or better) amounts of nutrients, then you'll be interested in reading Vegan Nutrition Made Easy.

You'll also learn all about the ins and outs of protein, Vitamin B12, the Vegan Food Pyramid, vegetables, whole grains, and more!

There is so much for you to discover on this site including menu planning, kitchen organization advice, tips for new Vegans and so much more!

And it's all based on our belief (and experience!) that custom-made, personalized natural plant-based cooking is the best way to live an easy breezy vegan lifestyle.

(We even have some delicious vegan recipes because sometimes you just need a recipe!)

Be sure to look over our Sitemap for an index of many of the pages on this site. There's quite a few; you're bound to find what you're looking for.

And if you have any questions we can help you with you can send me a note through my Contact form.

Thanks again for being here! Now, let's get cookin'.   :)

*Cheers!*




Patty "Sassy" Knutson and Jeff Knutson
Culinary Educators
VeganCoach.com

"Your approach to vegan cooking is what I have been missing. I have been over complicating my WFPB [whole-food plant-based] journey which has led to limited success. I think others may feel as I did that vegan cooking is too hands on and intensive and shy away from it. Your site and courses are fantastic, showing people vegan cooking is nutritious, easy and tasty. I'm still early in my journey but I am much more confident now :0)"
-- Erica Antos, Billerica, Massachusetts


"I have been attempting to become a vegan for about 2 years. I was very bored and confused. Also, I still did not feel healthy because I was not a true Vegan. I was desperately searching for a blog or something to help me when I came across Vegan Coach. I have not looked back once. I have been on track and never felt better. I am confident to call myself a vegan with my head held high!!!!!!"
-- Sherry Mendoza, Simi Valley, California


"Today is my one year Veganversary. I have to thank you for providing so much helpful information on your website about how to actually choose, store, prep, and cook all of the beans, grains, and vegetables. You also taught me what I needed to have in my pantry so that I could prepare many basic vegan meals.

"It is because of the knowledge I gained from you, that for the last year, I've been cooking all of my meals from scratch and eating vegetables, grains, and beans that I never tried in forty years. I was able to make an immediate switch to veganism instead of a gradual change because of your website.

"Thank you for providing such a wonderful gift to us all!"
-- Jessica Rempuszewski Conwell, Sarver, Pennsylvania


"I hope you know how extremely helpful your site is. It's different than other sites....easy to read, understand, etc. Being vegan for 5 years, you get comfortable thinking you know most of it, but then a website like yours comes along and now I'm learning even more! Thanks again for all your wonderful info!"
-- Lynne S., Rockwall, Texas


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-- Adam King, Florence, Alabama


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-- Susan Covington, Richardson, Texas


"Thank you for this site. I have been a vegetarian for over a year and am sick of hunting down cookbooks only to hope that the food comes out like it should. I like your approach of not using recipes as this is exactly what I have been trying to do lately. Just wanted to drop you a line to say that your hard work is appreciated!"
-- Flix K., Texas