Soy-free recipes for vegans & vegetarians

There’s really nothing traditional about this raw vegan pesto recipe, except perhaps the basil and garlic, but it’s so delicious that I hope you’ll forgive it for being a little different. And not only is it bursting with amazing colour and flavour, but it’s also entirely nut-free, and my son loves it!

This crazy colours vegan ice cream cake was a big success at my daughter’s birthday party recently. Although she requested a rainbow cake, I figured the best I could hope for was more of a crazy quilt design. I think I nailed it.

These vegan chocolate ice pops are creamy, sweet and satisfying. They’re also quick and easy to make, completely nut-free, totally kid-friendly and hide a wonderfully nutritious ingredient – beans!

This easy vegan cream of tomato soup is the perfect way to use up an abundance of summer tomatoes. It’s quick, super easy and so unbelievably delicious that I ate it for three months straight without getting sick of it.

This raw vegan banana raspberry smoothie is a quick and delicious way to use up a summer bounty of fresh raspberries. With just four ingredients, this smoothie is super easy to make, and even easier to drink. Sweet, creamy and tangy. Mmmmmm.

This raw kelp noodle chili salad is a quick, easy and delicious way to start using kelp noodles. It takes barely 10 minutes to pull together, it’s amazingly low in fat and yet it’s also incredibly tasty and satisfying. Yum.

Raw chocolate hemp pudding with only four ingredients – dates, hemp, cacao & vanilla – and the richness and creaminess you’d expect from chocolate mousse. But it’s dairy-free and nut-free! So simple, so quick and SO delicious. You will thank me, I promise.

This raw caramel sauce is also vegan and paleo, takes barely 5 minutes to make and is a rich, creamy, sweet and decadent topping for just about anything. Like fruit salad, ice-cream, raw cake, or even just a spoon.

This raw vegan mango lassi is sweet, tangy and creamy – everything a perfect mango lassi needs to be. Full of flavour and fresh, whole ingredients – mango, banana, cashews and dates. So tasty and sweet, it’s like dessert in a glass.

These watermelon Christmas trees are the perfect raw treat to take to any party. Frankly they’re so impressive, so delicious and SO easy, I say take them everywhere! And I can tell you from experience, they’re a great way to encourage kids to eat more fruit – my 4yo daughter loves them.

This healthy, homemade, oil free popcorn is fast and easy to make on the stove-top, and also incredibly delicious. It’s also vegan, wholefood and great fun to make with kids. I just love it.

This raw pina colada smoothie combines the rich and creamy taste of coconut milk with the tang of fresh pineapple, which is then perfectly melded together with banana, dates and vanilla. And did I mention that there’s tiny paper umbrellas?