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The Frugal Vegan’s Happy Home: Crafts, Rituals, and Recipes for Every Season

October 07, 2025

Make sustainable housekeeping easy and fun!

Even when you’re broke, you can live a full, fun, compassionate life.

Are you plant-based, penniless, and keen on making things yourself? This cookbook and DIY compendium of vegan living starts with a focus on spring and summer, offering hot-weather tips and treats like recipes for popsicles, sorbet, and tofu burgers; budget vegan travel tips; craft ideas; yard sale delights; and guidance on environmentally friendly housecleaning.

The second half of the book is focused on harvest and holiday, offering cozy activities and recipes for cool-weather treats like pumpkin bread, cookies, hot cocoa, and more. You’ll find egg alternatives for baking, vegan survival tips for family occasions like Christmas, and Valentine’s Day gift ideas and guidance for doing it yourself and avoiding commercial holidays altogether. Save cash and learn new skills while staying socially and environmentally conscious all year round.

Read on for an excerpt of The Frugal Vegan’s Happy Home: Crafts, Rituals, and Recipes for Every Season by Lisa Van Den Boomen, shipping now from our site and available from your local bookseller or vegan retailer November 1st!

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Cook Your Own Fucking Life: Vegan Comfort Food Recipes to Feed Yourself and Build Community

October 06, 2025

Meatless, anti-capitalist & punk AF

For scrappy, can-do vegans on a budget, this essential cookbook eschews fancy ingredients and gets back to basics. It’s packed with attitude and recipes anyone can cook and eat, including comfort food, smoothies, holiday staples to feed your family, and dirty rice to feed the touring band sleeping on your floor.

More than just a collection of recipes, this is a DIY cultural icon. The book makes author Ashley Rowe Palafox’s long-out-of-print Barefoot and in the Kitchen zine accessible again, with spirited annotations and updated resources, so you can find plant-based, cruelty-free inspiration you need without needing to hunt through your co-op’s crusty cookbook collection. Because plant-based broke folks deserve good eats, too!

Read on for an early peek at updated classic Cook Your Own Fucking Life: Vegan Comfort Food Recipes to Feed Yourself and Build Community by Ashley Rowe Palafox, shipping directly from our site October 14th, available from your favorite local retailer November 1st!

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