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Win vegan Easter Eggs

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You all love a competition, right?

My friends at Moo Free Chocolates have given me three of their delicious vegan Easters Eggs to give to one of my Twitter followers.

Moo Free make some of my favourite chocolate on the planet, including the bar with caramelised hazelnut fragments. And the one with the vegan honeycomb. And the one with cranberries. And the one…. well, you get the idea. I adore all of their stuff.

So, what do you get if you win this competition?

There is the Original with buttons, the Bunnycomb with buttons, and the Orange with buttons.

You can find these eggs in supermarkets, health food stores and Holland & Barrett outlets around the UK.

Now for the competition.

  1. Draw a celebrity in Easter Egg form (yes, really!). Pick your favourite celebrity and draw a picture of what they would look like as an Easter Egg
  2. Tag @fatgayvegan and @moofreechoccies (and your chosen celebrity if you wish)
  3. Use #WinWithFGV in your tweet
  4. Make sure you attach your picture to your tweet!
  5. Enter as many different drawings/illustrations as you want

One winner will be picked by me following the competition closing at midnight Friday March 24, 2017 GMT. I will be in touch with the winner to grab their postal address, which I will pass onto the company as they will be sending your prize of three eggs. The prize can only be mailed within the UK. If you are outside the UK, please feel free to join in the fun. We could always mail the prize to your friend in the UK.

Follow Moo Free on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. This is not a requirement of the competition, it just would be a nice thing to do!

Get going and be creative. Be eggcellent. Be Moo Free.

Don’t already follow me on Twitter? Get busy!

Tegan the Vegan London

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Being half a world away in Mexico City for half of every year means I miss out on a lot of incredible vegan food developments in London.

Of course I’m reporting as much as I possibly can, but I can’t physically get my greedy hands on a lot of the new and interesting stuff. If I’m completely honest, it does lead to a slight case of FOMO.

Take Tegan the Vegan for instance.

Tegan has been burning up the east London vegan scene for a little while now, but I’m yet to taste any of her amazing-looking food due to my globetrotting ways.

You can find Tegan the Vegan getting involved in all manner of events around the UK capital (and sometimes slightly further afield) and everyone I know who has tried her treats can’t stop raving about her skills. Tegan seems to have something very special going on.

There is often a weekly cake and vegan cheese menu posted via the Tegan the Vegan Facebook page and if you live in her catchment area, you can place an order for home delivery.

Check out this sample menu below.

OK. Before I make myself completely starving and jealous, let me give you a few links so you can get involved with this vegan food business on the rise. Get in on the ground floor before Tegan is recognised as London’s next vegan superstar!

Like Tegan the Vegan on Facebook. Follow Tegan the Vegan on Twitter and Instagram.

Now I’m going to spoil you with one of my favourite photos from Tegan’s Facebook page. Enjoy.

Extra note: Tegan’s incredible logo was created by Alex Bertram-Powell. See his art here.

All photos and images are property of Tegan the Vegan and reproduced here for publicity purposes.

New vegan ice cream

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Fry’s Family Foods have been at the forefront of vegan chilled and frozen grocery items in the UK for years.

The brand has a loyal following of consumers (me included) who adore their meat alternatives.

Those fans have suddenly got a whole lot more to celebrate as Fry’s Family Foods have now released their very own vegan ice cream range into the UK.

Yep. Another vegan ice cream brand!

As you can see, there are five flavours to get involved with and they are all currently exclusively available via Ocado. I’ve been assured that it won’t be long until they are also stocked by Holland & Barrett.

The coconut based ice creams are available in Salted Caramel, Vanilla Bean Espresso, Madagascan Vanilla Bean, Toasted Coconut and Tons of Cookies varieties.

How excited are you to have another vegan ice cream option in the UK? Have you tried these tubs by Fry’s? How were they?

You can visit Fry’s online on Facebook.

Vegan eggs

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Here is the shortest blog post I have ever done.

Vegan Easter eggs. Flavours? Orange, original and bunnycomb. Chocolate buttons included.

In a lot of UK stores and supermarkets from now.

Visit Moo Free Chocolate online.

Best vegan donuts in London

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London. You are onto a good wicket.

(Does ‘good wicket’ actually mean anything? Am I using that term correctly?)

After a short time away from the action, the glorious Peanut Butter Bakery is BACK to its usual weekend haunt at The Boiler House market on Brick Lane (see location on Google Maps).

Peanut Butter Bakery caused an absolute sensation at my vegan Christmas market, with people lining up for an extremely long time to get hands and lips on their sensational donuts.

If you think you would enjoy eating the best vegan donuts in the UK, get along to The Boiler House on Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 February, 2017. You will be unbelievably happy if you make the effort to get along.

To inspire you, here is a photo just posted by Peanut Butter Bakery detailing some of the things you should be excited about this weekend.


You need to follow Peanut Butter Bakery on Instagram.

Big vegan dessert pots

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You all know about Pudology so I’m not even going to waste my time reminding you of the decadent, creamy dessert pots this company makes.

They are one of the finest plant-based food lines in the entire UK.

Well, get ready to tweet this news to your nearest and dearest because Pudology are launching BIG tubs in Ocado.

As you can see above, the larger tubs are available in the Deeply Decadent Chocolate and the Smooth Chocolate Orange varieties.

But how much bigger are they?

You will be used to the original tubs coming as 85g twin packs, but these new tubs are a jumbo-sized 350g!

If you hurry, Ocado have these new larger tubs on special deal for £1 off.

Enjoy and follow Pudology on Instagram.

Vegan cakes at London markets

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I just got the best kind of email you can hope to receive. It was all about vegan cake.

There is a gorgeous vegan baking business in London called Vegan Delice and what they are putting out into the world deserves to be celebrated.

Check out some of these treats.

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I’m not sure about you, but there isn’t anything pictured above of which I wouldn’t eat at least two.

It’s all so dreamy.

I asked Chantal at Vegan Delice what goes on over at her baking headquarters and she said:

Passionate about the pleasure that my customers will feel when they are tasting my bakes, I ensure that the most important ingredient, ‘LOVE’ is always my present.

I take the time to make a lot of ingredients from scratch, such as my vanilla paste as its genuinely important to me that the products are 100% vegan, I also make my own raw chocolate that tastes similar to OMBAR (my inspiration) and I use this in a lot of my bakes to add a luxurious flavour.

I specialise in vegan cupcakes, doughnuts, cookies, as well as Cypriot style baked goods too. They are made from organic and locally sourced produce were available. I also include a sugar free, gluten free, and soy free range.

Do you like what you see and hear?

Vegan Delice will be trading at the Tottenham Green Market on December 3, 11 and 18, 2016 and at the Myddleton Road Festival on December 4, 2016.

Keep track of Vegan Delice via Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

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Vegan fudge alert

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Here is the news that every sweet-obsessed vegan has been waiting to read.

Fudge superstars Scoff are returning to the world for a limited Christmas run and you can get involved by ordering your very own supply.

If you don’t remember Scoff, the independent food company was loved for their delicious and truly mouthwatering fudge sold mainly via a stall in Brixton. Every single piece of sugary delight was flawless.

Owner and fudge creator Jane scaled back the business due to demands of having to move house and care for twin babies (I’m certain the babies are the hard part!), but she is now ready to dive back into fudge production with a limited festive run available for postal delivery.

I cannot stress enough how amazing this fudge is. You MUST buy some.

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The line up of flavours this festive season includes:

  • Classic vanilla fudge
  • Chocolate fudge
  • Cherry brandy fudge
  • Chocolate orange fudge
  • “Baileys” fudge
  • White chocolate and raspberry fudge

You can buy these flavours in mixed 12 and 24 piece boxes, or if you only fancy certain flavours you can buy individual bags of each.

You need to order online by December 16, 2016 and your fudge delivery will arrive before Christmas.

Enjoy! Follow Scoff on Facebook and Twitter.

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Festive vegan cake alert

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I’m not sure there is anyone else doing this kind of next-level festive cake glory in the UK.

Before I show you the photos from Hannah Banana Bakery, I am going to give you a heads up. If you want to order any festive treats for delivery from this award-winning bakery for home delivery, you will need to be fast. They are going to be swamped with orders and you don’t want to miss out.

Now, are you ready for these visuals? I don’t think you are but here we go anyway.

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What can I say that these photos don’t already convey?

The marshmallows and iced jewels (which killed me with beauty BTW) can be delivered to your home/office IF you order quickly. Delivery of these orders get set out on December 19 to ensure they make it before the holidays.

Click here to see all the different flavours of marshmallows (I’m flipping out) and to place your order.

Those big cakes are a bit more complicated to get hold of as apparently they don’t fit through a mail slot. Who woulda thought? You can order the cakes for collection if you are in the Southampton area.

Follow Hannah Banana on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Be sure to ask if you have any questions. I know they get super swamped at this time of year but their life mission is to get delicious vegan treats to as many people as possible.

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Deep fried toffee apple pies

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Oh my.

Super-adored street food specialists Club Mexicana have just posted the champion of all teaser photos on their Instagram account.

Check it out.


Can you even cope with that?

As the post states, Club Mexicana will be serving up these delights at Hawker House this weekend. The street food market takes place very close to Canada Water Underground station on Friday and Saturday night. Click here to see the location on Google Maps.

Eat well this weekend, stay happy and keep doing what you can to improve outcomes for animals without relying on sexist, racist, homophobic or body shaming techniques! xx

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