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FGV talking

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You have your VegfestUK London tickets for this weekend. You’ve planned all your eating adventures. Meeting times/spots have been agreed with friends.

But have you pencilled in a trip to the Vegan Vision panel discussions taking place on the Sunday of the two day event?

Come along for three, one-hour long panel discussions exploring being a vegan campaigner in a non-vegan world.

I have been asked to contribute to one of the three panels and will be joined by Kabaret co-owner Louise Wallis and EVA co-founder Tobias Leenaert. Our panel discussion is titled:

What’s the most effective way to campaign for living as a vegan and make vegan values mainstream?

I hope to see a few of you at this talk, where I expect you to ask me hard hitting questions to leave me looking confused.

See you at midday on Sunday (October 11, 2015).

Check out all of the panel topics here.

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Be 1 of 2000

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You know I work with Fry’s Family Foods, right? Working with such a loved, successful and respected vegan food company has quite a few positives and one such upside is getting the scoop on new products.

I am thrilled to announce this breaking news.

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Bargain vegan pizza

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Remember when I wrote about Firezza using vegan cheese?

You can go here to read my original post about this pizza restaurant chain with 17 locations. Piping hot pizza with Violife for all your convenience food desires!

There is something I think I forgot to mention in the original post. Every Tuesday, Firezza offers a very special deal that I managed to take advantage of this week. Check it out below.

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New vegan cookbook

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You all know tibits, right?

This central London restaurant and bar has for many years been a favourite haunt of compassionate diners, especially since they have made every Tuesday ‘vegan day’ on their self service food boat.

The vegetarian restaurant appears to exploring the vegan angle more and more these days, with the latest big news being the release of a 100% vegan recipe collection called Vegan Love Story.

80 plant-based recipes are housed in a gorgeous hardcover, accompanied by enticing colour photos. It really is a joy to flick through.

You can buy the new vegan cookbook by tibits (in partnership with Zurich restaurant Hiltl – the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the world) by popping into the restaurant on Heddon Street in Mayfair, or online here.

Let’s hope this book is another step in the journey of tibits becoming a fully vegan restaurant.

How would you like to win a copy of the vegan cookbook by tibits?

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Fall-ing for cupcakes

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A change in season means a change in cupcake flavours at Ms. Cupcake in Brixton.

I spotted this gorgeous autumnal flavour during a recent visit.

Other flavours for the cooler weather include Lemon Matcha, Speculoos, Black Bottom (with cream cheese baked in!), Apple Crumble Custard and finally, Blackberry.

How GORGEOUS do all of those sound?

Catch the special seasonal varieties until November in store and visit the Ms Cucpake stand at VegfestUK London on October 10 and 11, 2015.

Follow Ms Cupcake on Twitter and Instagram.

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FGV burger

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My work here is done. I can retire.

My pal Jhenn, the head chef at Veg Bar in Brixton, has given me the highest accolade I can imagine. She asked me to help design a burger and named it after me!

Check out this compassionate version of a Big Mac known as the FGV Burger.

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Fundraising dinner

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Important news from the wonderful Made in Hackney.

They need our help to raise funds for the valuable plant-based educational work they do for their local community. They work hard to give low income, vulnerable and hard to reach people knowledge and skills related to affordable, nutritious vegan cooking.

Check out these facts about their gala fundraiser event and then book tickets!

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Five cheese vegan pizza

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Oh dear!

Don’t get knocked over in the stampede. For this week only, you can devour a freshly prepared five vegan cheese pizza in London.

Wanna know where?

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Best vegan sandwich in London

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Get ready to run out the door.

I present to you the very best vegan sandwich currently being served in London.

Check it out. 

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Vegan pizza revolution

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London. It just got amazing for vegan pizza lovers.

Check it out.

Firezza is a London-wide chain of pizza shops specialising in handmade, chewy bases with fresh toppings and, from this week, vegan cheese as an optional topping.

PeTA reached out to me earlier in the week to let me know the owners of Firezza had made the decision to include VioLife as an optional extra across all 17 locations. This is surely the biggest chain of pizza restaurants in the UK to be offering a vegan cheese pizza.

Very fortunately for me, one of the 17 Firezza locations is situated just a few minutes walk from my house. This was my experience today.

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