London vegan news, reviews & events
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!
I’ve never been to Hull.
The only two things I know about Hull:
Yes, get along to the Hull Vegan Festival at the Mercure Royal Hotel between 10am and 5pm on Saturday September 19, 2015.
I’ll be searching Twitter for tasty food photos.
Have fun, Hull!
Click here to see the event on Facebook.
Hugletts Wood Farm is the only farm animal sanctuary in the UK that operates a dedicated Cow Protection Program. It is also the only vegan farm in the UK that runs such a sanctuary.Hugletts work extremely hard to self-fund as much as possible, growing vegetables and fruits and producing a whole range of garden products but they still face hefty bills for feed and bedding plus the inevitable cost of essential veterinary care, which runs into thousands of pounds a year.
This is your chance to help Hugletts help animals. We can do this together!
Fry’s Family Foods and Fat Gay Vegan are running a campaign from now until World Animal Day on October 4, 2015 to highlight the invaluable work carried out by the sanctuary, as well as raise the crucial funds to help Hugletts carry out improvements on their property.
The campaign will culminate with Fry’s Family Foods sponsoring a minibus to take competition winners and leading activists for a visit to Hugletts Wood Farm Sanctuary on World Animal Day. (Details of competition on Fry’s Facebook and Twitter )
Give generously to this amazing farm sanctuary and you will be directly improving the lives of all the animals that have come to make Hugletts their ‘for life’ home.
The target goal of this campaign is £13,650. This is not a small amount and gives you an insight into the huge costs associated with housing up to two hundred rescued animals.
The funds raised from this campaign will help cover the cost of new fencing and cameras on the properties to help keep the animals safe from harm.
Any extra raised above the target will go towards the weekly running costs of £1,200 a week. (most of this is covered by the produce and products generated on the farm)
Please give generously now and join Fry’s and FGV in supporting Hugletts Wood Farm Sanctuary. Click here to donate. Every pound directly helps animals.
Please like Hugletts on Facebook
I have been asked about this topic so many times over the past few years, I’ve actually got a pre-prepared response that I copy and paste.
What is the topic? Vegan Quorn products in the UK.
I’m going to have to change my usual response of ‘soon’ and ‘I don’t know’ because vegan Quorn products are about to crash land on the UK vegan landscape in a big way.
Check out the first two lines coming to a major UK supermarket next month.
How does the UK mainstream press respond to a vegan being appointed to the position of Shadow Secretary for environment, food and rural affairs.
Well, take a look at some of the headlines below. They range from relatively straightforward to hysterical.
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?
How about cashew cream cheese in a tub with a choice of three gourmet flavours?
You got it, London!
Gozo Deli is a company making waves in independent food stores around London with its range of cream cheese alternatives made from cashews.
Cheese aficionados can choose from smoked paprika, French herb, and basil pesto ‘casheese’. These 100g tubs look absolutely delicious and I can’t wait until I spot some in a store near me.
Check out the gorgeous photos.
Get ready to run out the door.
I present to you the very best vegan sandwich currently being served in London.
Check it out.
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.
You all know one of my favourite things to eat in London is the seitan burger from Essential Vegan, right?
Vanessa and her helpers have been serving this gorgeous handheld delight at Pump food market in Shoreditch for the past few months.
If you haven’t already treated yourself, you need to be really fast before they disappear for a while.
Sunday September 13th, 2015 is the final day you will find Essential Vegan in Shoreditch. Following that date, Vanessa will be packing up the kitchen and looking for a permanent location.
Don’t miss out! Get to Shoreditch this weekend.
Don’t forget to order some crunchy polenta fries with your final burger!
Extra note: this photo originally appeared on my Instagram account.
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