Welcome fellow foodies!
I'm Faith, aka "The Conscientious Eater"
I'm a plant-eating, mom of two littles who is currently living in the wonderful city of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia!
In 2013, I went vegan cold-turkey after watching the Forks Over Knives documentary! Later that year, I started The Conscientious Eater to share my recipes with the world. Since then, I have been the primary recipe developer, photographer and content creator behind this website.
The Conscientious Eater is where I share all of my vegan recipes, meal prep guides and vegan cooking hacks that I have picked up in during my (almost) 10 years of plant-based eating!
On this page, I'd love to introduce myself and everything we have to offer on this site. That way you can find what you're looking for quickly and easily!
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Vegan Recipes
The vast majority of my recipes are easy to make, use ingredients that you can read (think whole foods), and can be made by anyone!
As a mom of two young kids, I need quick, simple recipes. I know a lot of you are looking for the same!
For my main dishes and sides, I focus on well-balanced meals that have a protein, carb, fat, and either fruit or veggies. Oh! And yes, I think dessert absolutely has a place in a well-balanced diet!
Recipe Filter
My recipe page now comes with the ability to filter all 500+ of my recipes on The Conscientious Eater so that you can find the perfect vegan recipe for any occasion!
You can filter by cuisine, season, recipe type, diet, and ingredient!
Vegan Meal Prep Guides
Did I mention I have two little kids? Actually, I should probably say that I have two little kids and one big kid (ahem, my husband) and for some reason all three of them want to eat three square meals, snacks and dessert every. single. day!
That's why I meal prep! Meal prepping for the week, or even just a few days, can be a life saver for me!
I share all of my meal prep videos on my YouTube channel, many of which come with a free downloadable PDF that you can print and keep on hand in your kitchen.
My Cookbook Plant Biased
90+ Easy Recipes and Essential Guide for the Plant-Based Beginner
In my cookbook, Plant Biased, I share super-practical advice and my all-time favorite beginner's recipes (with a photo for each recipe!) for those looking to start a healthier vegan or plant-based diet.
I describe Plant Biased as "the beginner's guide and cookbook that I wish I had when I went vegan back in 2013."
Here's what's inside!
Beginner's Guide
✓ Why Plant Biased? Understand the "why" behind your choice to go plant-based!
✓ Vegan Cooking Basics: What you need to know and what to avoid when cooking.
✓ Grocery Shopping: How to confidently find healthy, unprocessed foods at the store.
✓ Nutritional Guidelines: Make sure you and your family meet all your nutritional needs!
✓ Kitchen Essentials: Learn to create a place where you'll LOVE to cook!
90+ Vegan Recipes (with LOTS of Photos!)
✓ Breakfast Recipes: Pancakes, granola, breads, donuts, oatmeals and more!
✓ Lunch & Dinner Recipes: Creative, hearty and healthy meals that will satisfy even the meat-eaters in your house!
✓ Dessert Recipes: Even vegans need dessert, and these recipes won't disappoint.
✓ Snack & Bread Recipes: Delicious breads and snacks to keep everybody filled.
✓ Drink Recipes: Smoothies, juices, milks and teas to compliment any meal.
✓ ...and much, much more!
Whether you're an absolute beginner in plant based, healthy eating or you're looking for more inspiration to spice up your vegan meals, Plant Biased will be the one indispensable cookbook you'll always want to keep handy in the kitchen!
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Join 38,000+ Conscientious Eaters On Instagram!
I'm on Instagram all. the. time. I love posting InstaStories of our life in Malaysia, our travels around southeast Asia (& the rest of the world!), and Harper and Hudson being their sweet selves.
I use Instagram to announce when new recipes are out on the blog and also share simple, every day recipes that I'm creating in the kitchen. If you want to keep up with me in real-time in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...
Get Vegan Recipe Inspiration On Pinterest!
I'm super active on Pinterest and post recipes multiple times a day on a wide variety of boards.
If you're looking for plant-based recipe inspiration, definitely follow all of my board on Pinterest and start pinning my recipes today!
Meet My Husband, Brett!
My husband, Brett, is the brains behind the technical aspect of the website. This website wouldn’t be what it is now without him!
This website has been a labor of love for both of us. If you want to start sharing your own journey and passion for food, check out Brett's guides below:
- How To START a Food Blog
- How to GROW a Food Blog
- How To MONETIZE a Food Blog
- How To DIVERSIFY your Food Blog Income
He's also written more advanced guides for people who already have large websites:
Michelle says
Hi Faith,
I have had my food blog since 2013 -- which I started while living in Malaysia! I lived in Kuala Lumpur from 2009-2019 - started working on my food blog full time in 2015 when I had my son.
I know the challenges of running a food blog from over there!
I am just making the switch from MediaVine, who I have been with since 2016, to AdThrive (Raptive), so found your article. Of course MediaVine's response to my notice has made me question the decision, knowing I will lose the 5% loyalty bonus, but your article has made me feel better about the decision! Bring on the best Q4 yet 🙂
I am taking my son back to KL in August -- we moved back here in 2019 and because of the crazy last few years, we haven't been back to visit friends. I am looking forward to many pool days!
Faith VanderMolen says
So fun that we have so much in common! I think Mediavine scared us as well, but we have been so happy with the switch to Adthrive. I hope it really helps your business! And enjoy your time back in KL!!
Chris S says
O!M!G! Faith! I'm so so so happy that I found you. I am ready to get on a path towards eliminating my chronic pain. I watched the FoK documentary and I figured I had tried everything else, except this. It can't hurt, right!? 😆 I take care of my 84 year old mother, and do all the cooking. So after the first of the year, we're starting the whole food plant based diet. I think I was led to your YouTube videos by divine intervention or something! Because my ANXIETY & PANIC had no time to set in. I got your book right away!!! I hope I can figure out what to make and how to do it easily. It's so out of my comfort zone!
Also, I've tried to sign up to get the PDF sent - the recipes you offer at the end of your videos. And I've tried to register my book with no luck there either. I think I need to talk to Brett about these things. 😆
Thanks for being so awesome!
Faith VanderMolen says
I'm so happy to hear you're excited about this new lifestyle and I'm so glad I can help you get started! Thanks so much for saying hi!! And yes, please send me an email and hopefully we can help you with those issues: [email protected] or [email protected]
Christy says
Hi. You mention your workouts in your videos but I haven’t found any information about what your workout looks like. Would you mind sharing your routine or what a typical workout might look like? Thanks so much!
Faith VanderMolen says
Hi! I have a full video on a week of workouts that you can watch here: https://youtu.be/pIFCqhoqQhs . While I'm always switching up my workouts to keep things fun and interesting, this was a pretty typical week for me. Hope that helps!
Jody Martindale says
I just discovered your website and some of your recipes look delicious. I would like to be able to read the comments about the recipes but don’t seem to be able to do that. Twice I have clicked on them and it has registered as a five star review. I just want to read the reviews. What am I doing wrong?
Faith VanderMolen says
Sorry you're running into issues! There should be two tabs, one that says "comments" and one that says "reviews." If you're on the comment's tab, you can just scroll down and read any comments people have left. Sometimes people just leave a star rating however. Hope that helps!
Christiane Schau says
Hi Faith! My 19 year old son wants to move to Japan to live and to work. What drew you to Asia?
Faith VanderMolen says
Asia is so fun! It's easy and cheap to travel around Asia, especially SE Asia. Price of living is a lot cheaper (not necessarily Japan, but where we've lived). We love experiencing different cultures and cuisines. The people are fun and friendly!
Kat says
I found your Okara Hummus recipe but my okara isn't heated or cooked, how do you recommend cooking it?
Faith VanderMolen says
Hi Kat! Good question. I'm honestly not sure. You could try heating it in a saucepan and stirring it constantly to keep it from burning. If you find a way to cook your okara, let us know!
Tanya says
I just found you and am binging on all of your YouTube videos! I especially love your meal prep videos and how you show us how easily to put those meals together. I'd love to see more of those when you have time. Thank you for all you do! 🙂
Faith VanderMolen says
Thanks so much Tanya! I have another meal prep video coming out on Saturday morning EST so keep an eye out 🙂 Thanks for your support!
Amy Skelton says
I found you on YouTube about a couple of months ago and am devouring your videos! I have to say, your videos are seriously like "food porn"!! Everything sounds and looks so amazing! And I especially love that you love chocolate so much! Thank you for all of the hard work you put into sharing your recipes with all of us!
Faith VanderMolen says
Hey Amy! Thank you so much for your support and for taking the time to write such an encouraging comment! I'm so glad that you're enjoying my content!
Lawand says
I have just subscribed to The Conscientious Eater YouTube channel, and am enjoying immensely all the vegan meal and food prep. content. Your ideas and methods have re-energized me, and are making plant-based cooking and eating fun and novel again. I wish I had found this channel sooner! Thank you.
Faith VanderMolen says
Oh that's so encouraging to hear! Thank you so much for taking the time to let me know and for your kind words. I hope my blog and videos continue to help you out!
Ann-Marie says
Hey Brett and Faith, I just wanted to say that I discovered Faith's youtube channel yesterday, I have been interested in fully switching to a plant based lifestyle for some time, and have tried a couple of different fitness and nutrition programs which were great but a bit too many cooking methods (elaborate baked goods, salad recipes, and just new things I don't have the time to try and learn right now), and while it may be simple if you have the time to sit and read and learn it, I don't want to put a ton of time into a big learning curve when it comes to lifestyle change - I'm willing to take some time but not hours! Anyway I watched Faith's prep videos and was inspired to re-commit to this way of eating because she reminds me how simple it can be. My husband is totally on board and seeing your kids eating plant based foods is so encouraging, we have two young kids as well. Thank you for all you have shared with the community here, I'm glad to be part of it, and will let y'all know how prep goes for me! God bless
Faith VanderMolen says
Hi Ann-Marie! Thank you so much for your encouragement and kind words. It's notes like these that encourage me to keep sharing my lifestyle and recipes on the internet:) I'm so glad you're finding my content helpful and inspiring. I'm so glad to hear that your husband is on board too! Thank you again for being a part of this community!
Janice Messmer says
Faith, I have a problem in trying to print any of your recipes and I hope you can make a change on your website to fix it. There is an ad banner on the bottom of the website, which isn't a problem, but whenever I go to print the recipe the banner stays at the bottom of the recipe and hides the bottom of the page and covers up some of the directions. Usually there is an x to close down these banners, but it is not included in your ad banner. Can you check with your website and see what needs to be done to not include the banner on the printer friendly page? Or maybe have the banner not overwrite the print page but actually move them on to the next page.
Faith VanderMolen says
Hi Janice, this is Brett, Faith's husband. First, so sorry for your troubles printing the recipes! The issue with printing the instruction from the recipes was actually a bug in a recent release of our recipe card creator. We alerted our recipe card creator and they got an update out very quickly with the bug fixed! You should now see the full recipe when you go to print. Also, even though the X didn't seem to be the issue in this case, we agree with you that there should be an option to X-out of the ads! We updated that setting in our ad management company's settings, so you should have that option now. Thanks again for your feedback! We want this website to be as helpful as possible for you!