By Sophia Nurse
For anyone on the clean and heathy-eating food path, Live Green Heathy should be on your double-tap list. The account was created specifically to deliver users the best healthy recipes from around the web, whilst clicking on any food pic will provide you with the ingredients list and link you to the original source. Live Green Healthy features ample healthy delicacies including veggie quinoa sushi, coconut avocado popsicles, and good old avocado toast six ways.
When we think of guilty pleasures ice cream immediately comes to mind, and Ice Cream King is the ultimate source for frozen inspiration and exercising our pleasure centres vicariously. Ice Cream King offers an array of images of our favourite ice cold treat, showcasing towering cones, ice cream sandwiches and decorative sundaes.
Delivering you beautifully photographed hearty recipes and decadent bakery treats, Joy the Baker is the perfect Instagrammer for anyone seeking comfort food, with an American Southern twang. Joy is a self-taught baker, turned professional baker and food author based in New Orleans who offers up a plethora of Southern-based recipes and lifestyle pics including spicy hot shrimp skewers, roasted vegetable winter crumble, and brown butter bruleed doughnuts.
George.eats is a vegan Instagrammer with a twist – He happens to be only 4 years old. Clean-eating foodies out there can get their vegan food fix from George, the London-based vegan child delivering you useful plant-based recipes and cuteness all in one. What were you doing at 4 years old?
LA-based food blogger and stylist Lee Tilghman has an Instagram account that will keep you salivating over fresh and healthy produce. Tilghman displays a visual array of vegan, vegetarian and clean eating recipes including dragonfruit smoothie bowls, chia pudding jars, and zucchini pasta with almond pesto, baked tofu and tomatoes.
So we’re not all perfect healthy eaters, and the creators behind Spoon Fork Bacon recognise and appreciate this – giving you indulgent recipes that’ll make anyone want to dive in. Spoon Fork Bacon consists of gorgeous snaps of sinful food including spicy marinated and grilled spare ribs, mint chocolate chip ice cream cake, and a bounty of homemade burger and pizza recipes.
Smitten Kitchen is the ultimate place for foodies seeking fresh yet comforting homemade recipes. Founded by New York-based food blogger Deb Perelman, Smitten Kitchen offers professional food photography in addition with tasty homemade foods including sizzling chicken fajitas, homemade pop tarts, and blueberry bread and butter pudding.
What you see is basically what you get. For anyone who’s a diehard chocolate fan, this is definitely the Instagram account for you to overindulge with your eyes. Chocolocodream displays about every imaginable recipe for chocolate lovers, including chocolate-based cakes, tarts, cookies, churros, croissants, brownies, and creamy chocolate lava cake. Can we say chocolate one more time?
Sneh Roy is the Sydney food photographer and blogger delivering wholesome food with a ~hipster~ edge. Voted Best Australian Blog in 2013 and featuring an Instagram gallery of artistically crafted food and lifestyle pics, Cook Republic is perfect for anyone seeking an alluring glimpse into the clean eating regime.
So we had to include one celebrity chef on our list and we couldn’t go past Nigella Lawson, if not for her shady yet intriguing past as the perfect mother and homemaker, and recreational drug user. Lawson’s Instagram account features a collection of delicious and homely British recipes and signature favourites from the chef, including chocolate raspberry pavlova, slow cooked roast pork, and classic shepherd’s pie.