The superstar food company has impressed people all over the UK (and the world with shipments heading to New Zealand recently) so it was only a matter of time before a big name store wanted in on the action.
Whole Foods Market stores around the UK are now stocking the Scotland-based vegan meat range. This is huge news for a completely independent vegan business that started so small just a little while ago.
If you are in London, the news gets better for you this weekend.
Sgaia will be at Whole Foods Market Piccadilly Circus all weekend handing out samples. You can visit them on Saturday (June 24) or Sunday (June 25) between midday and 3pm and 4pm until 7pm and try some of their plant based Mheats.
Get along and celebrate with this very deserving vegan business.
If you get along to superstar vegan grocery store GreenBay in West London, you can buy some amazing vegan nut cheeses made by the wonderful Essential Vegan.
Yes, Essential Vegan have found something to do following on from their wildly successful residency at Haunt in Hackney. They are pushing forward with their plans for vegan cheese domination!
Everything that Vanessa at Essential Vegan makes is superb, but believe me when I say the aged smoked nut cheese is on another level.
Get along to GreenBay as soon as you can to grab some of this gorgeous cheese. The shop is also selling the Essential Vegan cookbook.
One obstacle for vegans doing their best to steer clear of animal derived ingredients in their food is the practice by supermarkets and fruit wholesalers to coat fresh fruit in wax for preservation. Wax made from insects.
But along comes giant UK supermarket chain Tesco with the surprise of the year. They have started to tell customers that they have commenced a program to coat their fruit with a vegan-suitable wax.
Check out this Twitter exchange.
Hi @Tesco: I heard that you’re introducing a 100% plant-based wax for your apples. Is this true? Does it apply to all of your apples? Thanks
We do everything we can to avoid contributing to the demand of animal products but you have sometimes just gotta buy some fruit. This move by Tesco means one less thing we have to worry about. We can focus on their monopolising business practices instead!
Extra note: Josh has asked but we are yet to get an answer if we will be able to tell which fruit is coated in the vegan wax or if it is a guessing game.
You can find out if a Sainsbury’s near you is stocking Pudology by searching this list on their website. You also find independent stockists of the brand who you should definitely support as well.
Yay for the widespread availability of vegan desserts!
What I love about the Ethica online shop is the sustainable policy underpinning everything.
Check out the following statement on the Ethica website:
We’re really conscious of making our packing process as eco friendly as possible.
All of our boxes that we send out are re-used. They’ll either be ones we’ve been sent by our suppliers or, when we run out, we buy in used boxes and give them a second life (so no new material or energy has gone into producing them!).
We’ll also never send out any packaging material that isn’t completely biodegradable. All materials are either 100% recycled paper/cardboard or wheat based degradable nuggets (for cushioning). Even our packing tape is made from just paper and starch, so no non-biodegradable acrylics or PVC!
As we’ve just started our online ordering, we’re pretty limited with our post options but as soon as we can we’ll be switching to a carbon neutral courier!
Click here to get shopping now (orders over £50 won’t cost a penny in shipping) and follow Ethica on Facebook and Instagram.
And of course visit the physical shop when you are in Plymouth.
There are two things I love to do with this blog more than anything.
I enjoy sharing breaking vegan news and I adore helping you get a cheeky discount.
London vegan food emporium Greenbay Supermarket has decided that a bricks and mortar shop front in West London isn’t enough for them. The plant-based supermarket has now launched an online store, making it easier to get your favourite vegan groceries delivered to your home or office.
The online store contains more than 1,000 vegan products, offers free shipping for orders over £55 and delivers to any location in the UK (the world to follow soon).
And here is the even better news.
To celebrate the launch of their online shopping experience, Greenbay has given me a special discount code for my readers to get a whopping 15% off orders placed before May 30, 2017.
Get over to the online shop now by clicking here and use code: FGV to get your 15% discount.
You’ll find pantry items, snacks, sweets, household products, bathroom supplies and so much more. They even have tinned jackfruit!
This might not be news to you, but I’ve never seen this vegan burger at Tesco before.
As far as frozen burgers go, I’ve got to say this one is rather unique for the mainstream UK market.
Roasted peanuts, peanut butter and brown rice make up the main part of this burger, while their are chunks of avocado, red pepper and edamame beans also featured.
Makes quite a departure from textured soy protein!
The product also features the ‘vegan’ graphic on the front of the box for which Tesco is becoming noticed in plant-based circles.
Have you tried this new burger? Or is it not new and I’m just a bit behind the times? How does it taste?
If you are interested in nutrition values and ingredient breakdown, see the product listing on the Tesco website by clicking here.
I previously posted about TheCruelty Free Shop, an Australian grocery store chain with outlets in Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne as well as online shopping. You can see that post here.
The big development today is that the Melbourne store has relocated to a site which the owner claims makes it the largest vegan grocery store on the planet.
TheCruelty Free Shop website says of the launch:
We’re pleased to announce that we are opening the biggest vegan shop in the world in Melbourne on Wednesday 12 April 2017.
Our new store will have more than 3500 different vegan products with all sorts of foods including 50+ vegan cheeses, as well as fashion, cosmetics, coffee, cake, hot pies, fruit & veg, and more.
From humble beginnings, the Cruelty Free Shop started as an online store based out of Jessica Bailey’s spare room in Sydney. We now have five stores across Australia and the widest range of vegan products in the country.
Our Melbourne store has also grown over the years and it’s now bursting at the steams at its current location so we are moving it around the corner to 124 Johnston Street, Fitzroy (just a five minute walk or two minute drive from the current location).
Be sure to visit our new store to check out the 1000+ amazing new items we’ll have in stock, grab a coffee, view the Edgar’s Mission photo gallery and stock up on all the very best vegan products from local, Australian and international businesses. Every Saturday we also have free food tastings of delicious new products and old favourites.
Thank you to all our wonderful customers who have made this possible and supported us over the past 15 years.
Wow.
More than 3,500 products certainly puts this up their as the largest vegan store of which I know.
You should follow Cruelty Free Shop on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter no matter where you live in the world and take the time to wish them continued success.
If you are in Australia and would like to know the exact location of the new giant shop, click here to get the info via Google Maps.
In their quest to seemingly become the mainstream supermarket with the most vegan-friendly products in the UK, Sainsbury’s has started selling this ready-made meal.
Check it out.
Yes. Ready-made macaroni and cheese done vegan!
I’ll definitely be giving this a try when I get back to the UK. If you have tasted it, what did you think?
Extra note: these photos were taken by my buddy, Roger. Please take a moment to discover Roger’s website from which he takes orders for awesome pins and badges.
