This spring, Swedish food manufacturer Food for Progress is launching The Oumph! Burger, which is a plant-based premium burger for all burger lovers.
The Oumph! Burger will be sampled for the first time at the Fastfood & Café trade show in Stockholm this week.
“The Oumph! Burger is a burger for everyone who loves burgers!”, says Henrik Åkerman, Marketing Director at Food for Progress, the Swedish company behind the award-winning plant-based success Oumph!
Åkerman continues:
“When we created the Oumph! Burger, we took our inspiration from a juicy rare burger, but the difference is that the Oumph! Burger is made with entirely plant-based ingredients”.
Like all Oumph! products, The Oumph! Burger is made with soya beans, and the fine red colour comes from beetroot.
The Oumph! Burger is set to launch in all markets where Oumph! is currently available, starting in Sweden where the burger will hit supermarkets on the first week of May. Before this date it will be available from wholesalers and in a number of restaurant chains.
“We’re pleased to be showcasing the Oumph! Burger now, aiming for a wider launch later in the spring”, says Åkerman.
The Oumph! Burger weighs 113g, which is the equivalent of a Quarter Pounder. For foodservice, the burger will be sold in packs of forty, and for consumers, in packs of two. A smaller, 75g burger will also be available for foodservice.
The food trade show Fastfood & Café is taking place at Kistamässan in Stockholm on the 30-31 January. The Oumph! Burger is available for a limited sampling at the Unibake/Korvbrödsbagaren’s stand: G:06.
Check out the full Oumph! range on their website and be sure to follow them on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
Multi award-winning Oumph! is continuing its expansion into new markets, now with Tesco Ireland.
Five Oumph! products are part of the initial launch: Pulled Oumph!, Kebab Spiced, The Chunk, Salty & Smoky and Oumph! Pizza Italian Style.
“Having successfully launched with Tesco in the UK we are delighted that Tesco Ireland have also agreed to launch our delicious Oumph! products”, says Nick Jacobs, Head of Sales for Oumph! in the UK and Ireland.
Jenni Fisher, frozen buyer, Tesco Ireland comments: “We’re very pleased to bring the Oumph! range exclusively to customers in Ireland. We’re delighted to partner with Oumph! to bring high quality exciting products to the vegan, vegetarian and flexitarian customer base in Ireland.”
Oumph! at Tesco Ireland
Pulled Oumph! – Oumph! chunks in a flavourful BBQ sauce – delicious in tacos or burgers. Price: €5 (280 g)
Oumph! Kebab Spiced – Oumph! strips seasoned with a classic kebab spice mix – just add fresh vegetables and sauces to create your own plant-based kebab. Price: €5 (280 g)
Oumph! The Chunk – This is unseasoned for those who like to add their own herbs, spices and creativity to a dish. The Chunk contains only soya beans, water and a little salt. Oumph! Price: €5 (280 g)
Oumph! Salty & Smoky – With its salty, smoky and slightly sweet taste Oumph! Salty & Smoky is a perfect partner for brunch, served with American pancakes, or in a bagel. Try it with a full English breakfast, or in an Oumph! ‘O.L.T.’
Oumph! Italian Style pizza – inspired by Italy with semi-dried tomatoes, rocket, thyme and garlic seasoned Oumph!, and organic and plant-based cheese. The pizza base is hand-stretched and baked in a wood-fired brick oven. Price: €5 (280 g)
Violife has long been the champion vegan cheese when it comes to mainstream accessibility and reach.
And now they are taking things to the next level by launching a pair of TV adverts for the UK aimed at showing people how simple it can be to use dairy free cheese.
Club Mexicana, specialists in Mexican vegan food, are opening a new eatery at Netil Market on January 26, 2019.
Get ready to say hello to The Burger Bar.
Meriel Armitage, Club Mexicana founder, is launching her new Burger Bar at Netil Market. With a menu packed with indulgent Mexican-twists on classic burgers, it will sit alongside their Dinerama location in Shoreditch and London’s first 100% vegan pub, The Spread Eagle in Homerton.
The menu takes classic burgers and gives them the Club Mexicana make-over, re-incarnating them as vegan dishes. The menu will include; The Mexican Fried Chick’n Burger with annatto glazed fried ‘chick’n’, pickled cabbage and mustard mayo; Beer Battered ‘t0-fish’ with tartare sauce, deep fried capers, pickled cabbage and salsa verde; and Sticky Glazed ‘Ribs’ with slaw, pink onions and jalapeno.
For sides Meriel will bring her Loaded Nachos with guacamole, pink onions, salsa verde, pickled jalapenos and chipotle oil, Mexican Fries with chilli lime salt and hot sauce, as well as her cult-classic: Deep Fried Cheese served with Mexico City’s favourite hot sauce: Valentina.
They will also be serving Club Mexicana’s very own pale ale created in collaboration with Beer 52 and all natural wines.
Meriel says:
We’ve wanted to collaborate with Netil Market again for ages as we are big fans of their market. We did our very first street food event on the rooftop of Netil House, so there’s something quite nostalgic for us returning with our new Burger Bar. We want it to be a place where we can try new ideas, run specials and collaborations, whilst getting back to our street food roots putting us face to face with the most important people – our customers!
Two vegan pop ups are set to take over the space at Cafe Chula in Camden Market next week!
Are you ready for some exclusive vegan eating?
On Monday January 28, 2019 The V Spot will serve a menu starting with a trio of tacos: banana blossom ‘fish’; pulled chipotle butternut squash, and mole black bean. This will be followed by tortilla soup with jackfruit and a green salad with creamy pepita dressing. To finish, guests will be served a vegan tres leches cake with fresh fruit.
On Tuesday January 29, 2018 Ol’Factory will run their first ever experimental dinner as a conversation salon where guests will be guided through discussions at their tables.
The four course menu includes a tostada of field mushrooms, charred avocados, chia caviar, algae seaweed, and passionfruit. Tacos on the night will feature jackfruit mole poblano with Yucatan pickled onion and seitan ‘chicken’ al pastor with pineapple puree & smoked garlic.
Tickets for each night are £30 plus booking fee for all food courses and a welcome drink. You can book online here.
A drinks matching menu will available during both events for an additional £15pp and will feature speciality drinks and cocktails designed by the venue.
Blank of Brixton is already loved for its gorgeous brunches, coffee, and cakes but now they are taking things to the next level by adding vegan cocktails to their repertoire.
The Acre Lane location is celebrating their cocktail launch with a special night of games, nibbles, and a lot of Jameson.
On January 25, 2019 between 6pm and 9pm, as well as London’s best vegan Irish coffees and cocktails, there will be retro gaming, a cocktail class run by Jameson London, appetisers, vegan desserts, and a tonne of freebies.
Tickets are just £15 on the door and include two cocktails, appetisers, and a vegan dessert.
Need more to drink? Extra cocktails will be available to buy on the night.
If you have made the choice to live a vegan life, you would have made some changes to how you eat. You will also be exploring personal care products that are animal free and household cleaning products not tested on animals.
But have you considered how your beer choice can be more compassionate?
Freedom Brewery has been brewing vegan-friendly beers since 1995 and is now enjoying fantastic success as more and more consumers realise they can enjoying a drink without harming fish!
Yep, all Freedom beers are certified vegan.
How do they do this you may ask?
Well, believe it or not, a lot of beers are filtered through isinglass, which is made from ‘fish guts’. At Freedom they don’t do this, instead using a mechanical process which employs a natural filtration process to ensure they still achieve ‘bright’ beer.
This is particularly important for the brewery as they do not pasteurise, but rather naturally carbonate, during the brewing process (they let their beer mature for longer – up to 6 weeks vs. 10 days for some other brewers). Not using isinglass (taken from fish bladders) to filter their beer is just the tip of the iceberg!
Freedom Brewery is very close to my heart and I’m grateful for them being one of the most visible vegan-friendly beer brands of the past decade.
Did you know that Freedom gifted us with cases of beer to enjoy at the first ever London Vegan Potluck? Or you must have been one of the countless people to order a pint of Freedom at tibits restaurant over the years, especially when it was the home of London Vegan Drinks.
2019 finds Freedom Brewery doing all it can throughout January to inspire people to #GoGutless with their beer enjoyment.
They currently have a Veganuary 20% off promotion live across the full range. Yes, 20% off vegan beer! To claim, customers need to enter the code: VEGANUARY when they reach the checkout.
Click here to browse the entire range and buy vegan beer at a discount.
Competition time
Freedom Brewery has kindly made five gift packs available and you might just win one of them!
Each gift pack comes with three beers and a branded Freedom Brewery pint glass. If you win, the brewery will ship it directly to you.
How do you enter
Freedom isall about going gutless and saving our fish friends, so you can enter the FGV/Freedom giveaway by posting your favourite fish joke on Twitter.
That’s correct. We want fish-friendly jokes. Example joke: What do you call a fish that needs helps with its vocals? AutoTuna.
Rules (they are very loose)
There is no limit to how many fish jokes you can enter (one joke per tweet)
Each entry tweet must include the hashtags #GoGutless and #FreedomBrewery
Jokes referring to fishing or fish being harmed/eaten are instantly disqualified
You have until midnight UK time on January 31, 2019 to enter
Five winners will be picked and winners must be prepared to supply their contact details to Freedom in order to receive their prize
The decision is final and there will be no drama or arguing that your joke was better… it’s just a bit of fun!
It goes without saying but I suppose I should say it for legal reasons… you can only enter this competition if you are of legal drinking age in the UK
Prizes can only be delivered to mainland UK addresses
Jokes combining beer AND fish are extremely encouraged
If you are anything like me, you are actually struggling to keep up with all the vegan changes taking place so rapidly around the UK.
I hadn’t even seen the full vegan frozen range from supermarket chain Iceland so thankfully my buddy Mirel sent me through photos from her recent shopping expedition.
Check it all out below!
The UK sure has undergone a MASSIVE vegan change over the past two years and the most noticeable signpost is radical supermarket changes such as this.
