Win Follow Your Heart Products with FGV

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What would you say if I told you I want to give you four bottles of the creamiest, most-delicious vegan salad dressings on the market?

And what would you say about getting these bottles, made by one of the longest-lasting and best vegan companies on the planet, for free?

Fat Gay Vegan (that’s me!) has teamed up with Follow Your Heart to give one lucky person a delivery of four of the most sought-after vegan products in the UK.

But before I tell you what you can win and how you can win it, let me tell you a little bit about Follow Your Heart.

Follow Your Heart began in 1970 when founders Michael, Bob, Paul, and Spencer opened a seven-seat soup, salad, and sandwich counter in the back of a small natural food store in the San Fernando Valley in Southern California.

What followed has been nothing short of a runaway success story that now sees a huge range of Follow Your Heart vegan products sold in countries all over the globe. These products include plant-based cheeses and the legendary Vegenaise, the mayo alternative that paved the way for countless imitators.

In 2020, Follow Your Heart is a vibrant, ethical company invested in looking after the people working with them, while they also fight the good fight for animals and the environment.

They are decent people making amazing vegan products!

OK. Enough of the love fest. On with the winning.

One winner will be randomly chosen to receive a delivery of the following salad dressings:

  • High Omega Vegan Bleu Cheese Dressing
  • High Omega Vegan Ranch Salad Dressing
  • Vegan Honey Mustard Salad Dressing
  • Organic Vegan Caesar Salad Dressing

These salad dressings are versatile and perfect for any time of the year. Dress your favourite greens or salads, drizzle over roast potatoes, or even use them as a dip for your favourite vegan wings or nuggets.

How can you win? Simple.

That’s it. One follower will be chosen at random to receive a delivery of the salad dressings.

The competition will close at midnight UK time on Monday October 19, 2020. Winner must be UK mainland resident. I’ll contact the winner and Follow Your Heart will arrange delivery of the prize.

Get following and hopefully get winning.

You can buy Follow Your Heart dressings in the UK at The Vegan Kind Supermarket, Alternative Stores, Whole Foods Market, Planet Organic and various independent health food stores.

Extra note: this post is sponsored content.

Buy vegan soaps and support non-binary folk

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A few months ago, I blogged about a fabulous soap initiative being used to raise funds for crucial charities and social support groups.

Well, it’s time for an update.

The wonderful Bars of Hope is back with another fundraising drive this month, this time raising money for G(end)er Swap through the sale of their vegan-friendly bars of soap.

G(end)er Swap is a UK based LGBTIQ+ clothing outreach initiative and community interest company that supports gender non-conforming individuals to access clothes and community. They are a charitable organisation that creates safe(r) spaces for the queer community to access clothes through community pop-ups, bespoke workshops and exhibitions. G(end)er Swap mainly operates in England and Wales.

Bars of Hope is donating 50% of money raised from the sales of their gorgeous vegan-friendly soaps in October to G(end)er Swap.

I’ve been using their soaps for the past three months or so and they are not only great quality but they smell amazing, too. They are lovingly handcrafted and carefully packed for shipping around the country.

When shopping via their Etsy store, you can choose from:

  • Translucent Lavender Soap with Fresh Lavender buds & Vitamin E Oil
  • PRIDE Edition – Cinnamon & Aloe Vera Rainbow Soap
  • Sweet Orange Essential Oil, Jojoba Oil & Fresh Orange Zest
  • Dreamy Soap – Sandalwood Essential Oil, Jojoba Oil & Assorted flower buds
  • Sweet Orange & English Rose Essential Oils, Shea Butter and Oatmeal Soap with Jojoba Oil
  • Tea Tree and Rosemary Essential Oils Handmade Shea Butter, Oatmeal Soap + Aloe Vera

Buy these fabulous soaps AND help raise crucial funds for this organisation. So much goodwill and winning and good vibes.

Click here to shop for soaps and have them shipped to your home or office.

If you would like to learn more about G(end)er Swap or think you could benefit from their events and support, please visit their website.

Vegan cheeseburger pizza for UK delivery

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Imagine ten years ago someone telling you it was possible to order frozen gourmet vegan pizzas for home delivery and that you had a huge range from which to choose.

It would have seemed laughable (and desirable).

Well, guess what?

One Planet Pizza are the future and they have all the pizzas for your taste buds and can ship directly to you, including this cheeseburger variety!

Other flavours to be excited about include:

  • Chick’n & Sweetcorn
  • Meatless Feast
  • Three Cheezly Margherita
  • Funghi Feast
  • Spicy Mexicana® Melt
  • Masala Tempehtation (limited edition)

You can order all of the pizzas from the One Planet Pizza online shop, where you can even set up a monthly rolling order to ensure you will never run out of pizza again with their UK delivery option.

Yay for vegan pizza!

Follow One Planet Pizza on Instagram.

Hummus in glass jars UK delivery

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Many companies are listening to the concerns of consumers and are trying to get their products onto shelves without depending on as much plastic as they did previously.

One such food manufacturer is Chickee Food.

The London-based company recently sent me a care package of their fabulous vegan hummus flavours and I was thrilled to see them all house in glass jars.

I got the Spicy Pumpkin Hummus, Spinach & Herb Hummus, Beetroot & Rosemary Hummus, and Roasted Garlic & Thyme Hummus.

They are tasty!

You can buy Chickee Food hummus for UK delivery via their online store.

Extra news: you can visit the Chickee Food market stalls around London to reuse your jars! Eco friendly hummus for the win. Check out their other products and look out for new flavours coming soon by following them on Instagram.

Vegan things I was gifted this week

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There have been quite a number of PR gifts and free samples sent to me over the past few weeks, so I thought I would share some of the highlights with you.

Click through to each of the Instagram posts if you wanna discover more information or follow the brands.

This first item is a unique one in the bunch. It is a vodka and coffee martini drink featuring CBD!

Serve chilled over ice if you are old enough to drink.

New vegan chocolate brand!

Dirty Cow bars are packed solid with delicious ingredients, including bourbon biscuits and cinder toffee.

Nutshakes.

Sounds kinda rude but the drinks are all about nutritious ingredients and tasty flavours. Big bottles, too.

You REALLY HAVE TO click through to the Instagram post of these cinnamon buns to see the additional photos.

Cinnamon Square bake these vegan square cinnamon buns and ship them around the UK.

Vegan Green Bee is a new online store for eco-friendly and vegan products.

Amongst other items, they sent me this fab beard oil and comb.

My final share of the week is this GORGEOUS box of chocolates from Love Raw. Sensational products. Truly.

Hope you enjoyed this little overview of my recent freebies haul.

Vegan cinnamon buns for UK delivery

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If you have ever wondered what is the most decadent thing I have ever had delivered to my house, you are about to see.

Bakery business Cinnamon Square is based in Hertfordshire and they specialise in square cinnamon buns. Yes, square!

They have made quite a name for themselves by selling these decadent and over the top square buns and now they are out to impress plant-based eaters as well.

Check out this huge box of the vegan square cinnamon buns I was sent by Cinnamon Square.

My box contained nine square buns packed tightly into the box, all smothered in rich and irresistible frosting.

Click here to visit the Cinnamon Square online shop and get some delivered!

London shop selling vegan product that isn’t actually vegan?

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What’s not cool?

When a company sells something as vegan when it isn’t really vegan.

One of my readers recently reached out to me with some information about Doughtnut Time in London selling a DIY vegan donut kit that included non-vegan ingredients.

The reader pushed Doughnut Time for clarification on the vegan status of this kit and this is what they found out:

I recently noticed that Doughnut Time were selling a vegan DIY donut kit which included Cookie Crisp cereal. As you know, most mainstream breakfast cereals are not vegan due to the vitamin D being derived from lambs wool. I contacted Doughnut Time to let them know this but they didn’t understand and said they looked at the ingredients and said there were no ‘active’ animal ingredients.

I then contacted Nestle to double check to make sure I was not wrong and they confirmed to me that the Cookie Crisp cereal is not vegan as it contains vitamin D derived from lambs wool. (They were actually very helpful and we’re able to tell me this immediately).

I then went back to Doughnut Time to let them know that Nestle confirmed to me that the product is not vegan because of the vitamin D.

They asked me to send them the correspondence between myself and Nestle, which I did. I also let them know that they could contact Nestle themselves to confirm. I advised them to stop selling the product or at least remove the Cookie Crisp as this is misleading to vegans.

They did not respond after this, however they are still selling the product labelled as vegan. They have added to the list of Cookie Crisp ingredients: ‘contains vitamin D’. This of course is not a resolution to the problem as they are still labelling a non-vegan product as vegan.

Since I was alerted by my reader, Doughnut Time has taken off a line in the item description that explicitly stated this kit was all-vegan. However, it still carries the (vg) label.

It also now features a disclaimer that the product contains vitamin D.

This blog post is just a heads up for anyone who has been confused by the labelling and marketing of the kit. It isn’t vegan now and has never been vegan.

As a company that markets a lot of products at vegans, it would be helpful if Doughnut Time had complete transparency and tell people they messed up.

A clear disclaimer on the product page that it isn’t suitable for vegans would also be the very lest they could do.

You can visit the Doughnut Time website online here.

Vegan ice cream made with coconut milk

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Apparently their is another heatwave coming for this weekend in London, so you probably should know about this vegan ice cream option in Angel.

Launched this summer by Copperhouse Chocolate, the rich and smooth ice creams are coconut milk-based. In even more tempting news, the chocolate ice creams on the menu are flavoured with their very own Copperhouse Chocolate drinking chocolate mixes.

That’s right, London. You have a vegan chocolate shop. You knew this, right?

Exclusively available in the Copperhouse Chocolate cafe in Angel, you can have a scoop with a brownie or waffles, try a milkshake, or they can fill a take-home tub for you.

Mint Chocolate ice cream, made using their Mintchievous Hot Chocolate, is one of the most favourite flavours for milkshakes. Other rotating flavours include Coffee Caramel, made with Monmouth Coffee and swirled with Coconut Salted Caramel, and Raspberry Chocolate made with Raspberry Dream hot chocolate and swirled with a homemade raspberry puree.

It all sounds fabulous!

You can see the exact location of Copperhouse Chocolate thanks to Google Maps.

You can follow Copperhouse Chocolate on Instagram.

Vegan and gluten free beer from Scotland

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I’m a big beer fan and I love sharing brewed news with you, especially when it’s an independent business behind the scenes.

The good people of Bellfield Brewery in Edinburgh, Scotland make vegan-certified beer and they sell it online for shipping all around the UK.

And extra news?

All the beer from Bellfield is also certified gluten free.

Bellfield sent me a bunch of their beers to try and I currently have them chilling in the fridge!

You can order for UK delivery from the Bellfield online shop.

Be sure to follow Bellfield Brewery on Instagram.

Vegan friendly supplement with unusual marketing

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This is a first for me.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a vegan-friendly supplement marketed at men who partake in anal intercourse, but in 2020 there are new horizons.

When I posted about vegan bondage harnesses a while ago, I lost thousands of followers on social media. Actually thousands.

Wonder if this will get a similar result?

Pure For Men market these capsules at men who want to maintain regular bowel movements so they can be prepared at anytime for anal intercourse.

Check the images below to see the ingredients, which include psyllium husk and black chia seed powder, housed in vegan friendly capsules.

Of course you don’t have to be a man interested in anal intercourse to take these capsules, but I did find it interesting that is how they are being marketed. With the tag line Stay Clean Stay Ready, this might be the first time I have ever seen a product marketed in this manner.

Follow Pure For Men on Instagram if you want to know more about this vegan-suitable supplement or order online.