Welcome to Vegan Reset

Hi! My name is Kim-Julie Hansen and I’m a certified holistic nutritionist and cookbook author. Vegan Reset® is a food & lifestyle blog featuring both healthy and indulgent vegan recipes, as well as tons of practical cooking, nutrition, and lifestyle tips. To learn more about Vegan Reset®, who it’s for, how it started and what its mission is, keep reading this page. If you’d like to learn more about me and my story, click here.

Also check out my other websites, Best of Vegan & Kim-Julie Hansen

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Who Vegan Reset is For

Whether you’re vegan, plant-based, vegetarian, flexitarian, or a meat eater, Vegan Reset® is for you! I created Vegan Reset® to be the guide I wish I’d had when I first went vegan and later started becoming interested in a healthier lifestyle. Even though I am personally vegan for ethical reasons, I believe in applauding every step and any reason to incorporate more plants into your diet is a great one. Even if you’re planning on adding just one vegan meal to your diet once a week or once a month, that’s an amazing start and I’m here to cheer you on!

This space is where you can ask all the questions, share your experience, learn new things about plant-based living, and hopefully be inspired. No matter your current dietary preferences or experience level in the kitchen, know that you’re always welcome here! The blog also caters to special diets, including a list of recipes that are high protein, refined sugar-free, gluten-free, and tree-nut free in addition to being vegan (and thereby dairy-free by default.) If you have to follow a specific diet for health reasons and don’t find recipes that suit you, please e-mail me. I always welcome suggestions!

The Story Behind Vegan Reset

It all started in 2013, when I started sharing vegan recipes on Instagram (under the name “Brussels Vegan” at first), a couple of years after going vegan. My initial goal was to share meal ideas and supermarket finds for friends and family members who kept asking me what vegans can or cannot eat. I simultaneously began posting about my journey towards liking healthy foods since I had previously despised those and had spent a lifetime eating mostly processed foods and accumulating other unhealthy habits (including smoking cigarettes and frequently going out drinking.)

A few years later, in 2016, I launched an online program called Vegan Reset®, which later also became a cookbook and this blog, replacing the original Brussels Vegan. Seeing others struggle with going and staying vegan, I started thinking about what kind of program would have helped me when I first went vegan. This turned into a concrete plan and, ultimately, an online program. Over the years, thousands of amazing people from all around the world joined the program every month and I’m so grateful for each and every single one of them.

At the end of 2018, I published a book inspired by the program and made the decision to pause the online version for a while. During the following years, I mainly focused on my other platform, Best of Vegan, and published a second cookbook. Now, however, I’m back to focusing on Vegan Reset® as well as my personal blog as it’s what brings me the most joy.

Vegan Reset’s Mission

Vegan Reset’s mission is centered around the following pillars:

• VEGANISM: veganism is a diet and lifestyle that seeks to exclude animal products, as well as products tested on animals and activities involving the exploitation of animals as far as possible and practicable.
• PLANT-BASED EATING: even though the terms “veganism” and “plant-based” are often used interchangeably and there are some overlaps, they’re not the same. “Plant-based” refers to food only and focuses on adopting a diet of predominantly whole foods like vegetables, fruits, legumes, nuts and seeds, etc for health reasons. It usually seeks to exclude heavily processed ingredients, but is not always 100% vegan (some include eggs or honey, for instance). All recipes on this blog are fully vegan and the majority are also considered plant-based.
• A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO HEALTH: I believe that health is about so much more than just what we eat. The quality of our sleep, our stress levels, our environment, movement, etc. all contribute to being healthy. That is why this blog also focuses on some of these non-food related topics, such as self care and wellbeing.
• BALANCE: Our mental health is just as important as our physical health and while I love to promote healthy meals, I also enjoy so-called comfort food and think that balance is key. That is why you’ll also find recipes like vegan grilled cheese or double chocolate raspberry muffins in the recipe section.

Vegan Reset – Frequently Asked Questions

Got a question that’s not answered? You can submit questions via the contact page.