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Would you, if you could, buy vegan food from the TARDIS?
Doctor Who fans, please remain calm with your arms inside the blog post at all times.
Over the past week or so, I have been hearing rumours and rumblings of a police box in Glasgow that had been turned into a micro café that was vegan-friendly.
I wasted no time in reaching out to owner/operator Laura to see if I could get a bit of info and a few photos to share with you.
Laura wanted you all to know the following:
Yay!
This blog has been nominated in the Best Vegan Blogger category as part of the Vegan Awards UK 2016.
It’s always a thrill to get a nod like this so thank you to Vegan Festival UK, the organisers of the awards as well as several fabulous vegan events around the country.
See the full list of nominees in the Best Vegan Blogger category below:
As of the end of April/beginning of May 2016, I no longer work with Besos de Oro
I am super happy to announce that I am helping Besos de Oro promote their gorgeous vegan Baileys alternative throughout the UK.
If you were one of the fortunate VegfestUK attendees who got their hands on this creamy spirit-based drink over the past year, you already know what all the fuss is about. It felt as if the majority of people stopping by my FGV stand at the shows were doing so to tell me about this amazing drink they had just sampled.
Besos de Oro is a creamy, subtly sweet brandy and horchata drink that can be consumed on its own as a digestif or poured over ice cream or brownies as a decadent treat. Personally, I would be making some sort of alcohol-fuelled milkshake topped with vegan cream.
When Peter from Besos de Oro reached out to me to see if I wanted to be part of the UK team, I jumped at the chance.
As of the end of April/beginning of May 2016, I no longer work with Besos de Oro
The first big piece of news I am spreading for Besos de Oro is their Valentine’s special offer.
Check it out.
Besos de Oro have a fantastic offer for Valentine’s Day 2016.
Loved up shoppers will get a bag featuring 12 raspberry-filled chocolate hearts made by the glorious Essy & Bella (remember I wrote about them here?) plus a bottle of Besos de Oro for £19.99 plus £2.50 p&p.
That is a pretty special deal and I’d say that even if I wasn’t part of the sales team.
This Valentine’s offer is limited to only 300 orders and because I was a bit slow getting this blog post up, I think a big chunk of that quantity has already been snapped up. Order promptly and the delivery is guaranteed to reach you and/or your sweetheart in time for the big day.
If you want to order a bottle with a bag of chocolates for someone special (that can include yourself!), you need to get over to the Besos de Oro Facebook page and send them a private message telling them you want to order. Peter will put a bottle of the creamy drink and a bag of hearts aside for you before telling you how to pay.
Now, if someone could just buy one of these packs and ship to me in Mexico my heart would be eternally theirs.
Popular vegetarian restaurant Mildreds only just recently open their second location in Camden, but have already announced plans for a third restaurant.
And it opens next month!
How many times have you thought to yourself, “Someone should open an awesome vegan grocery store and call it Vegan Ville”?
Well, check it OUT!
One of my favourite vegan food traders in the UK has commenced an Indiegogo campaign in order to open their own bricks and mortar outlet in Birmingham.
And I think you might wanna get behind them!
Lisa and Andy of The Vegan Grindhouse make some of the most delicious vegan comfort food out there and I’d love to see them be able to expand their business.
They need a LOT of money to make their diner dream come alive, but the good news is they also have a few smaller goals just in case their fundraising drive falls short:
As you can see, if we join forces we can help The Vegan Grindhouse step up their game even if we don’t get them all the way to their top goal.
Click here now to donate to their campaign (and check out the rewards for people who donate). The country NEEDS a vegan diner and you can help make it a reality.
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Someone in the comments section on this blog recently alerted me to a 100% vegan restaurant and shop that opened in Ramsbottom last year. A few clicks later, I was scanning the enticing menu of Lolo’s Vegan and Raw Restaurant and Store.
Check it out below.
My wonderful friend Mirel reached out to me to ask if I would like to share her vegan food experience from a recent Emirates flight.
I said, “Hell yeah. Show me the food!” and she did. See the photos below, read what she had to say about it all and then follow Mirel on Instagram for delicious vegan baking photos.
Time to get your learned vegan outfit on.
My buddy Dr Ian McDonald has worked diligently for what feels like years on producing a radio series about the history of vegetarianism. Not strangely, the series is titled Vegetarianism: The Story So Far and the first episode has just this week been launched for your listening pleasure.
This first episode has the following synopsis:
In India in the middle of the first millennium BCE, the idea of “ahimsa” – non violence – emerges, with the vegetarian order of Jain monks and nuns as its torchbearers. Where did it come from? Ian goes to the intellectual hub of iron age India, the Kingdom of Maghada, to find out.
Lock yourself away, close all your Chrome tabs and treat yourself to a professionally made and incredibly informative 30 minutes of radio by pressing play.
Congratulations, Ian! I’m looking forward to future episodes in the series.
Please click here for Episode 1 of Vegetarianism: The Story So Far if it fails to play above.
Follow Ian’s radio show The Vegan Option on Twitter and Facebook.
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I recently saw a post in the Manchester Vegetarian and Vegan Group on Facebook about vegan pizza and even though I’m thousands of miles away from Manchester, curiosity got the better of me and I was delighted to learn about the existence of a 100% vegan cafe/juice bar in the Manchester suburb of Chorlton.