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🔄 Make any recipe SOS-free in 3 swaps
Kitchen Monk recipes are always SOS-free. Some recipes below use a little salt, oil, or sweetener, so use these swaps:
- 🧂➡️🍋 No added salt: lemon, lime, vinegar, garlic, herbs, salt-free spices, and no-salt-added cans. Skip soy sauce, miso, and salty broths.
- 🫒➡️💧 No oil: sauté in water or no-salt-added broth, roast on parchment, and use blended beans or a little nut butter for creaminess.
- 🍯➡️🌴 No added sugar: whole dates, Barhi date caramel, or ripe fruit instead of syrup, honey, or sugar.
👩🍳 Chef Robin Jeep
⭐ Chief Culinary Guardian · Flourishing Culinary Hero · Kitchen Monk Collaborator
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🆕 Latest from Chef Robin
Featured with Chef Robin’s permission. Recipes she shares with Kitchen Monk will appear here first, credited to her. Recipes in videos may differ from our SOS-free versions.
📺 Cooking videos
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🌟 Chef AJ · CHEF AJ LIVE! (videos + recipes)
🆕 Chef AJ’s newest recipes
🥦 Physicians Committee (videos + recipes)
🔬 NutritionFacts.org, Dr. Greger (videos + recipes)
🍴 Forks Over Knives (videos + recipes)
🆕 Newest recipes
▶️ Newest videos
🟡 Some “Forks Flex” recipes list optional oil; just leave it out.
🟢 SOS-friendly kitchens
Oil-free and often salt- and sugar-free. Still give each recipe a quick check with the 3 swaps.
🥇 Straight Up Food, Cathy Fisher (fully SOS-free)
💪 PLANTSTRONG, Rip & Jane Esselstyn
🌿 PlantPure Communities
🥫 Well Your World
🌿 Dreena Burton, Plant-Powered Kitchen
😊 Happy Herbivore, Lindsay Nixon
❤️ Dr. Esselstyn, Dr. McDougall, Dr. Fuhrman, and more
🥬 Chef Robin trained and worked with Dr. Fuhrman. Some Nutritarian recipes include nuts, seeds, or dried fruit.
🏛️ Recipes from health organizations
📚 T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies
🏡 National Health Association
🥗 Full Plate Living (Ardmore Institute of Health)
💲 Budget, family, and world flavors
💲 Plant-Based on a Budget, Toni Okamoto
🟡 Some recipes use salt, oil, or sweetener; use the 3 swaps.
🗺️ World flavors, made SOS-free
- 🇮🇳 Indian-style: lentils or chickpeas with tomatoes, garlic, ginger, cumin, turmeric, and garam masala, over brown rice. Finish with lemon and cilantro.
- 🇲🇽 Mexican-style: black or pinto beans with corn, salt-free chili powder, cumin, and lime, on 100% corn tortillas with Kitchen Monk salsa.
- 🇯🇵 Japanese-style: edamame and vegetables over brown rice with ginger, garlic, scallion, and unseasoned rice vinegar instead of soy sauce or miso.
- 🇲🇦 Moroccan-style: chickpeas and lentils simmered with tomatoes, cumin, cinnamon, and paprika; a few chopped dates add gentle sweetness.
- 🇮🇹 Italian-style: white beans with tomatoes, garlic, basil, and oregano over whole-grain pasta or a potato.
👨👩👧 Blue Zones, family recipes, and the VA guide
🟡 Not always SOS-free as written; use the 3 swaps. For the VA guide, use the SOS-free notes in our meal plans.
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Transparency note: Enliven Foods was co-founded by Chef Robin Jeep.
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ℹ️ About this page: videos and recipe lists come straight from each creator’s public channel or feed and update on their own. We show titles and dates only; every recipe opens on its creator’s site, with full credit to them. Kitchen Monk™ does not review them before they appear, and everyone featured is independent; sharing their work does not mean they endorse Kitchen Monk. Outside recipes may not be SOS-free. Educational only, not medical advice; if you take medicines for blood sugar or blood pressure, have kidney disease, or have food allergies, check with your care team before big changes. Tap CC in any player for captions. Suggest a source or a correction: rfjeep@gmail.com. Last updated October 4, 2026.
