6 Food Blog Success Stories [2023]
Do you love educating people on the importance of keeping healthy food? Starting a food blog can be rewarding and fun.
A healthy food blog can focus on educating website visitors the importance of keeping it healthy food. Besides, you can share recipes for healthy eating and budget-friendly options with the reader. To start, you may hire someone to configure your website and content creator to share insightful information with the audience.
To increase blog interactions, share informative insights with your readers.
Here are some real life success stories of starting a food blog:
1. Kinda Healthy Recipes ($312K/year)
Mason Woodruff (from Austin, Texas) started Kinda Healthy Recipes over 6 years ago.
My name is Mason Woodruff, and I run Kinda Healthy Recipes, a food blog with around half a million sessions per month. We create recipes, guides, and resources for food-loving fitness enthusiasts.
2. Crowded Kitchen ($204K/year)
Lexi Harrison (from West Bloomfield Township, MI, USA) started Crowded Kitchen almost 6 years ago.
I’m Lexi Harrison, 26-year old co-founder, and CEO of Crowded Kitchen. Crowded Kitchen is a plant-based recipe website and a photography and creative content business, with an organic audience of nearly 200k on Instagram.
We’ve grown our website views to several hundred thousand monthly and continue to grow our social media following by several thousand every month by focusing on creating extremely high-quality, engaging content. Today, we’re a 3-person full-time team and continue to grow month over month.
Learn more about starting a food blog:
Where to start?
-> How much does it cost to start a food blog?
-> Pros and cons of a food blog
Need inspiration?
-> Examples of established food blog
-> Marketing ideas for a food blog
-> Food blog names
-> Food blog Instagram bios
-> Food blog Instagram captions
Other resources
-> Food blog tips
-> Blog post ideas for a food blog
-> Food blog hashtags
4. Chefs Resources ($60K/year)
David Buchanan (from Ferndale, WA, USA) started Chefs Resources about 13 years ago.
I am David Buchanan, a professional chef, and owner of Chefs-Resources.com, a website geared towards providing professional chefs with free detailed culinary info (seasonality, flavor profiles, etc.) about fresh fish, oysters, and cuts of meat, as well as tons of free kitchen management articles. Paid subscribers get access to our premium kitchen management resources such as Excel sheets (prep sheets, recipe templates, ordering guides, etc.), video tutorials, and kitchen management articles.
The site is not about recipes, but I am a Chef, so here is one of my favorite personal creations...seared scallops, spring pea puree, lemon beurre blanc, fingerling potatoes, golden beets, asparagus, corn kernels.
5. 40 Aprons ($300K/year)
Cheryl started 40 Aprons, a food blog that is now earning $18,000/mo. In only 12 months, her blog income grew nearly 4,000%, and traffic increased 1,300%.
Cheryl started 40 Aprons, a food blog that is now earning $18,000/mo. In only 12 months, her blog income grew nearly 4,000%, and traffic increased 1,300%.
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