Making a vegan birthday cake for your dog is pretty simple since they already love a variety of vegan foods you’ll need: oats, pumpkin, banana, carrots, apples and maple syrup.

Traditionally, store-bought popsicles don’t feature dairy, besides fudgesicles or creamsicles, but they do have a ton of artificial sugar or high fructose corn syrup.

Any recipe you ever made can be made vegan with just a few ingredient substitutions. Don’t be surprised to find that you even prefer the vegan versions to the originals. It happened to me. Here are 10 food substitutions you need to know.

Buzzfeed published a post titled “26 Foods You Should Learn to Cook in Your Twenties.” As I skimmed over the list, I thought how great it would be if every one of these recipes contained zero animal ingredients. For vegan versions of the items on the Buzzfeed list, see these meat and dairy-free recipes below.