Welcome Ya’ll!!

We are the Arizpe’s!

A family that cares about our health, the planet, and all living beings.

Our vegan journey started 5 years ago, and we have never looked back. Let’s be real though, when my husband had the idea of going Plant Based for our health, I was not thrilled..

Very much into fitness and “healthy” eating was part of our lifestyle, and in my mind we needed meat and animal products to build muscle and be healthy. I have always been open to new things and I will do my research. That evening I went down a rabbit hole of Plant Based recipes and health studies, to animal cruelty and even slaughterhouse footage.

My mind was made up, not only are we going to start eating Plant Based, we are going Vegan. I did not want to contribute to suffering of any living being for a meal.

Luckily we love cooking and baking. Now was the time to start looking up recipes and trying to find ways to make all these veggies and Plant Based proteins taste good!

Making our favorite recipes plant based was definitely challenging at times, not only did we want to love what we made, we wanted to share with our family and friends.

My mother in law “Kika” has always been an inspiration when it comes to food, she makes the best authentic Mexican dishes, especially Tamales. I call her the OG tamale maker. When they moved to Texas, she even at one point even had a food truck.

Fast forward to two years later, we moved from the city of Fort Worth to Valley View, TX. We had land, are living next to my inlaws, life was good. At this point we decided to give abused and neglected farm animals a forever home. Arizpe Animal Sanctuary was born, and we now provide a safe place for over 130 animals.

During all these changes in our lifestyle, my husband was always encouraging me to share our recipes with everyone. Running a sanctuary, owning a hair salon, having a family, I was not sure I could handle another new venture!

Here we are though, and we could not be more excited.

Time to share our authentic Mexican tamales, empanadas and other dishes with you all!

We are passionate about making Authentic food that is better for your health, causes no harm to animals and tastes really really good.

We hope you love our tamales just as much as we do!

The Arizpe’s

Visit our animal sanctuary website here!