📇 Every meal on Kitchen Monk and Flourishing Nursing, in one place. Tap any button to open the recipe. Free, no account needed. 🌱
🏷️ What the labels mean:
🎥 Cook-along video of that exact recipe, plus a 🛒 printable shopping list
✅ Kitchen Monk Original, SOS-free (no added salt, oil, or sugar)
🔎 VA recipe: video search in progress, and our 🌱 SOS-free version is coming
🎥 Cook-Along Recipes
✅ Kitchen Monk Originals
🍽️ Meals (12)
🥄 Sauces, dips & dressings (7)
🔎 From the VA’s Practical Plant-Based Cooking
All 60 recipes from the free VA guide. 🔎 We’re searching for a cook-along video of each one. When we find a match, that recipe gets its own page with the video, our 🌱 SOS-free version, and a 🛒 shopping list.
🟡 Until then: each button opens the VA’s original recipe. As printed, most use oil, salt, or sweeteners, and some use eggs or dairy. Cook them the Kitchen Monk way with our Ingredient Swaps: water-sauté, skip the salt, sweeten with dates, and use plant swaps.
🌅 Breakfast (10)
🌮 Lunch & dinner (14)
🍲 Soups & stews (10)
🥗 Sides & salads (13)
🥕 Snacks & appetizers (7)
🍪 Desserts & shakes (6)
📺 More VA cooking videos
Explore cooking demonstrations from VA’s Healthy Teaching Kitchen. These videos show VA’s original recipes, which may use ingredients that differ from Kitchen Monk’s plant-based, SOS-free adaptations. This collection offers additional cooking education. A playlist appearing here does not mean every recipe in our Meal Index has a matching demonstration.
🎞️ Recipe videos, November 2015 to February 2025
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🆕 Recipe videos, August 2025 to present
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These videos belong to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and play through YouTube’s player, which may set cookies under YouTube’s privacy policy. Kitchen Monk is independent and not affiliated with, approved, or endorsed by VA. Education, not personal medical advice.
📄 VA recipes are from Practical Plant-Based Cooking, GEMS Clinical Work Group with the Nutrition and Food Services Healthy Teaching Kitchen, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (May 2023), free at nutrition.va.gov. Page numbers are the guide’s printed pages; on some phones the guide opens at page 1, so scroll to the page shown. Kitchen Monk is independent and not sponsored or endorsed by the VA. Educational, not medical care. Corrections: rfjeep@gmail.com (no personal health information, please).
