Happy new year everyone! It’s time for my annual year in review post. I always look forward to this post; I’ve done this at the end of every year since I started my blog and find it so interesting to look back, compare and reflect. Me vs You 2022 – my most viewed posts and my favourite posts of the year.
And I’ve managed to avoid looking at my total year stats for most of the last quarter, so Google Analytics can hopefully give me a few surprises this year.
How This Works
As always, this post will feature three lists: my most viewed posts of the year, the top 5 including no repeat entries from last year with their real ranking shown in brackets, and finally, my favourite posts I’ve published in 2022.
The 5 Most Viewed Posts of 2022
This year’s list consists mainly of posts that have featured on this list in years gone by, with the top few spots being quite consistent with last year.
4. Seedless Strawberry Jam Recipe
3. High Protein Vegan Stir Fry
2. How to get Free Waterdrop Microdrinks
1. Graze Inspired Flapjack Bites
The stir fry, flapjack bites and Waterdrop posts were all featured in last year’s top 5, albeit in different places, but the jam and high protein meals are both new entries.
I’m not surprised to see the jam make an appearance. Although I’ve avoided looking at my total year stats for a while, I often see that recipe in my most viewed posts each week/ month when I look at my monthly stats, so if anything, I’m surprised it wasn’t a little higher. The high protein vegan meals post was quite a shock. I don’t know if I don’t notice it when I’m glancing at my stats because it’s a compilation post, but I never seem to notice it there.
2022’s top posts with no repeat entries would be as follows:
5. Popcorn Cauliflower Recipe (10)
4. The Perfect Diet RDA Challenge (9)
3. High Protein Vegan Chilli (6)
High protein vegan was clearly a popular search term in 2022.
My Five Favourite Posts of 2022
I found this really hard this year. For one, after coming out of the other side of years in and out of lockdowns, ingredient shortages and restrictions, it turns out I couldn’t actually remember what I’d published in 2022 and a few recipes were actually from 2021 and a few were ones for Recipe A Day May 2023 that I made so long ago that I forgot you hadn’t seen them yet. And one or two that I’d dismissed as last year’s were actually from 2022.
Aside from Recipe A Day May, this year has been a compilation of recipes each month with the main ingredient being something in season with the aim of eating more sustainably for the planet, and seasonal eating being more affordable. So, realistically, my favourite posts should come down to my favourite ingredient of the month.
I’ve been eating a vegan diet for 7 ½ years now and I can still count on my fingers the number of times I’ve eaten tofu, it’s not a food I naturally gravitate towards in the supermarket, which is why this recipe made the cut. No, I haven’t eaten this recipe a huge number of times compared to some of the others. But this recipe made me really enjoy an ingredient that I never eat, which, in my humble opinion is the main goal of a food blog to begin with.
When it comes to soup and I don’t have a plan or ingredients to use up (hello root vegetable post Christmas), I usually go for something along the lines of tomato/ red pepper and lentil or some combination of the above without really thinking about it. This soup is the soup that makes me want to actually think about it and get the ingredients required rather than making a tomato and lentil by default.
Sweet yet tart strawberries, fresh basil and vegan cream cheese. What’s not to love?
Olives are one of the greatest foods on earth. Almost every good food breaded and fried is an improvement.
This mix became my go-to cake mix. It’s delicious with any flavour added, can be made into a single larger cake and stacked and the mix never fails.
Bonus entries
I’m a potato girl at heart. And I find a new way to tell you that every year when it comes to Christmas recipes. But I couldn’t realistically say my top 5 of the year were all potato recipes. So, here are the additional recipes I wanted to add to my list but couldn’t.
I couldn’t pick a favourite from this list to include in the top 5, so you’re getting a bonus list of my favourite potato recipes of the year instead. Because it’s absolutely 100% normal to need an extra favourites list exclusively for potatoes.
Do you have a favourite new recipe from 2022?
Until next time,
Sophie
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