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Supermarket Bombscare
Online cheese shopping
Slowly, but surely, UK supermarket chains are waking up to the demands and needs of vegan shoppers.
Tesco is the latest company to add a previously difficult to find vegan product to their online shopping website. One of the most revolutionary vegan cheeses to ever hit the UK is now available to order online via Tesco.com.
Order ice cream
The Vegan Ice Cream Wars have just launched into cyberspace.
Vegans are still celebrating the arrival of Almond Dream ice creams into Waitrose stores around the country, but not all outlets stock all four available flavours. As a matter of fact, a lot of their stores don’t have any.
Thankfully, it’s 2015 and we have the Internet.
Vegan again
One of my favourite things to eat is cheap, rapid cook noodles. Sainsbury’s used to have a range of pot noodles and instant noodles that were all suitable for vegans. Over the course of a few years, these changed leaving not one vegan option in the range of their own brand instant noodles.
But things have changed, again!
My hangover today had me on my knees in my local Sainsbury’s, rummaging through the instant noodle section in a desperate attempt to see if any of the flavours were vegan. I am delighted to report I found a vegan option.
Lots of ice cream
It has been a bit quiet on the Vegan Ice Cream Wars front. Not much to report back from the trenches.
Quiet, that is, until I stumbled into Waitrose in White City Westfield today.
When you shop in a mainstream grocery store in the UK, you usually find just one brand of vegan ice cream (or two if you are fortunate). My experiences as a vegan consumer have left me disappointed by the freezer section of most supermarkets.
This is what makes the ice cream freezer at the White City Waitrose so impressive.
I didn’t see one brand. Or two. Or three. I saw four brands of vegan ice cream or frozen desserts. This sighting was also impressive as each brand featured had at least two flavours available.
Check it out below.
(After the pics, I’ll let you know which one came home with me. Can you guess?)
Get stuffed
Apparently it is the season for stuffing, so why not make your choice for stuffing a compassionate one.
I was in Sainsbury’s earlier tonight and their Taste the Difference stuffing range caught my eye, especially as each flavour is priced at just £1 for a limited time.
Out of the five varieties on offer, four are labelled as suitable for vegans. Check the range out below.
Boxes of cereal
I don’t know why I don’t spend more time in the breakfast cereal aisle of my local supermarkets. Every time I saunter down there, I seem to find a new-to-me cereal.
Just like this.
Christmas snacks
One of my favourite things to do in a supermarket is to trot down the seasonal aisle. You know the one. The aisle rammed with novelty gifts and food products related to whatever time of year it is.
It’s where the shops cram the latest gimmicky toys at Christmas time or the One Direction mugs with chocolate eggs in them leading up to Easter.
This aisle is often the site of vegan junk food finds, especially if you are cruising the seasonal aisle at your local Sainsbury’s. Remember when I snapped up these vegan sweets at Halloween time? They were in the seasonal aisle.
The lucky dip that is the seasonal aisle of my nearest Sainsbury’s coughed up some new, never-before-seen vegan snacks for me yesterday and I only bought them in order to share with you all. Of course.