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May 26, 2025

5 Ways AI-powered Edge helps you plan vegan meals

Adopting a vegan lifestyle is an exciting journey and can be filled with delicious new meals and healthy choices. Whether you’re looking for vegan recipes for dinner or creating a beginner vegan shopping list, AI-powered Microsoft Edge can help you make meal planning a fun and seamless process. Use Edge to explore diverse cuisines, save time, and enjoy cooking vegan recipes.

Check out five ways AI-powered Edge can help you plan tasty and varied vegan meals.

1. Explore vegan recipes for dinner from around the world

Plan, prepare, and enjoy vegan meals from around the world without the effort of endless searching. With Copilot built into Edge1, you have an AI companion ready to assist whenever you need.

Ask Copilot in Edge for recipes that align with your plant-based lifestyle or to find a recipe to satisfy that craving for the vegan Green Papaya Salad you remember from your trip to Thailand. Copilot gives you quick, relevant answers, and you never have to leave Edge.

2. AI-powered suggestions for personalized vegan meals

Using Microsoft Edge makes discovering new vegan recipes both easy and personalized. Discovering and organizing personalized vegan meals becomes seamless, whether you're sticking to local favorites or exploring global cuisines.

Save and organize favorite recipes

  • Save and organize recipes: Open multiple recipe tabs for vegan meals, and AI-powered Organize tab tool in Edge can group them together by similarity, making it easier to stay organized.
  • Pick up where you left off: Close Edge at any time and your tab groups of recipes will be there when you return as tab groups are pinned by default.

Translate recipes from other languages

  • Explore international cuisines: Whether you're looking for Italian, Mexican, or Thai vegan recipes, AI-powered translation in Edge can instantly translate it and unlock a world of global vegan dinner ideas.
  • Translate ingredient lists: AI translation in Edge also helps with understanding ingredients listed in foreign recipes, making it easier to find and prepare the correct ingredients when shopping.

3. Simplify meal planning

AI-powered Edge makes meal planning easier whether browsing from home or on the go using Edge on your mobile device1 to find dinner recipes while you shop. Save time and money with several built-in features, like:

  • Price comparison: Edge helps you plan meals by finding the best prices on ingredients from multiple online stores.
  • Cashback: Edge helps add value when meal planning by offering rebates, helping you save even more while stocking your pantry with plant-based essentials.
  • Coupons: Edge helps you find discounts for ingredients, helping you get the best deal while staying on track with your plant-based diet.
  • Wallet: Edge helps manage your payment methods and passwords, and checkouts are faster and more convenient.

4. Easy recipes for vegans

Finding quick and simple recipes is key to enjoying a vegan diet. Edge helps make it easy, for example:

  • Experience a smarter way to find what you’re looking for with Bing in Edge1. From quick searches to deeper dives, Bing is your AI-powered search engine and brings you fast, relevant search results, and personalized content that adapts to your needs. Craving a lentil stew or a vegan Sloppy Joe? Use Bing to quickly find easy recipes.
  • Once you've chosen a recipe and you’re ready to start cooking, the read aloud tool in Edge can help guide you. Listen while you cook as Edge reads the recipe aloud to you. This hands-free approach helps make cooking more fun and accessible.
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5. Helpful beginner vegan shopping lists

Transitioning to a plant-based diet is easier with the right essentials. Edge can help you find and fill your pantry with staples like the following:

  • Legumes and beans: Chickpeas, black beans, lentils, and kidney beans for stews, soups, and salads.
  • Grains: Quinoa, brown rice, oats, and pasta serve as the foundation for vegan meals.
  • Nuts and seeds: Almonds, cashews, chia seeds, and hemp seeds for snacks, smoothies, or adding texture to meals.
  • Plant-based milks: Almond milk, soy milk, and oat milk for alternatives to dairy and use in cooking, baking, and beverages.
  • Tofu and tempeh: Protein-packed options that can be grilled, sautéed, or added to stir-fries.
  • Spices and condiments: Turmeric, cumin, paprika, nutritional yeast, and soy sauce to make flavors come alive.

Explore the world of vegan dishes with AI-powered Edge

Planning vegan meals becomes an enjoyable and simplified experience when you use AI-powered Edge. From discovering exciting vegan recipes for dinners from around the globe to generating personalized meal plans, beginner vegan shopping lists, and saving money, Edge helps you to enjoy plant-based meals every day. Whether you’re new to vegan diets or have lived the vegan lifestyle for years, try Edge and explore, plan, and enjoy.

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  • [1] Feature availability and functionality may vary by device type, market, and browser version.

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