Welcome to Healthy Happy Life — your home for vegan recipes and plant-based cooking since 2007! The vibe: eat more plants and live your life. I’m Kathy — cookbook author, photographer, OG blogger. My passion? Sharing how delicious and approachable vegan food can actually be! Based in LA, I’m a mom finding time for creativity and sparkly moments — while, like you, in the trenches of real life, just trying to get home-cooked meals on the table for my family at the end of the day.
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Modern Vegan Space
Welcome to Healthy Happy Life – Your Ultimate Guide to Vegan Recipes, Wellness Tips, and Creative Plant-Based Cooking. My space where food, creativity, and modern motherhood meet. About Kathy
Plant-Based Recipes for Real Life
From cozy breakfasts to dinner-party favorites, my recipes are all about color, comfort, and ease. I love showing that vegan cooking can be both simple and special — vibrant, nourishing, and full of joy (and yes, a few snacks along the way). Start here.
Wellness, Creativity & Everyday Joy
Healthy Happy Life isn’t just about what’s on the plate — it’s about how we live, recharge, and create. Here you’ll find reflections on wellness, creativity, motherhood, and the messy, beautiful effort of staying inspired.
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Whether you’re here for vegan cooking tips, a spark of creative motivation, or a reminder that balance is overrated — you’re in the right place. This is your space to find recipes, connection, and a dose of feel-good elder milennial-made energy.
Easy Meals - Dinner Recipes
These are delicious and easy entree vegan recipes to feed your family and refuel from your day - with loads of plants and compassion.
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Kid-Approved Recipes!
These recipes are so much fun to make and eat! Sometimes the kids can even get in on the culinary adventure..
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Smoothies
Plant-based smoothie recipes! Vegan recipes made in a blender. Colorful creations, full of nutrition and flavor! Grab your Vitamix...
Holiday
Holiday recipes from Fall through the New Year..
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Vegan Travel Posts
I love traveling the world as a vegan and sharing the pictures and meals and adventures with you guys!
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Vegan Desserts
Let's do dessert! Some sweet treat vegan recipes right here. Load up on cookie, cake, pudding, pie, snack and seasonal dessert recipes you will make again and again.
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Vegan Topics
Get loads of vegan-specific articles, resources and conversations right here!
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About Kathy
Learn more about the blog founder + cookbook author, Kathy Patalsky
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Healthy Happy Life, a website by kathy patalsky - and my plant-based / vegan recipes, photographs, interviews and brand collabs have been featured in Buzzfeed, LA Times, the kitchen, VegNews, Parade, Brit+co, Refinery29, NPR, CNN and more.
