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Vegan Quarantine: Day 53

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Welcome to Vegan Quarantine: Day 53. This daily video series is my way of keeping spirits high within the vegan community while also supporting independent business, charities, and musicians.

Links for everything discussed are included below.

Veg-In-Out Market LLC is a vegan grocery store in Las Vegas. Tell your Vegas friends to order and follow them on Instagram for your future trips:
https://www.instagram.com/veginoutmarket/

KaMa Vegan Bakes is doing home deliveries of vegan baked good in Edinburgh. Follow on Facebook and Instagram for details:
https://www.facebook.com/KaMa-Vegan-Bakes-305265426693310/

https://www.instagram.com/kamaveganbakes/

Cafe Thrive Southampton is delivering ready meals around the area. Follow on Instagram for upcoming delivery details:
https://www.instagram.com/cafethrivesouthampton/

Young Vegans are still delivering frozen pies to cook at home. UK delivery:
https://www.youngvegans.co.uk/

Follow Young Vegans on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/youngvegans/

What The Pitta are still delivering from their Brighton and Camden stores 7 days a week:
https://whatthepitta.com/

Recipe of the day. Easy bechamel sauce:
https://lovingitvegan.com/vegan-white-sauce-bechamel/

Music recommendation of the day. Sweet Jane (with affection) by
Two Nice Girls:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIwl5VrqEfw

Here is my PayPal link if you can afford to support these daily videos with some money:
https://paypal.me/pools/c/8oikSipsfP

Vegan night in Edinburgh

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Did you know that a non-vegan restaurant in Edinburgh holds a vegan night once a month?

The Bread Street Brasserie offers three fancy courses for just £17.50 on the first Wednesday of each month. That means your next chance to book yourself in for this monthly food event is next week (Wednesday March 2, 2016).

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The menu for next week is a cut above with dishes including bruschetta, curry, burgers, salads, soups and even fruit crumble.

Click here to see the full menu and click here to book a table.

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Awesome activism

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If I wore a hat, I would take it off to these people.

A group of compassionate people in Scotland just carried out what is one of the best examples of activism I have seen in a long time. They wanted to get a message across to their communities, so they raised the funds to erect a billboard in both Glasgow and Edinburgh.

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The brilliant yet subtle message comes across clearly and thoughtfully. It gets everyday people thinking about how they have been socialised into accepting some animals as loving companions whilst others are bred, mistreated and killed for food.

Congratulations to everyone involved in this fantastic campaign. I hope we see many more like this in the future.

Find more info on the Vegan Billboard campaign here.

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Vegan night in Edinburgh

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Here is some exciting news for our northern neighbours.

A classy restaurant in Edinburgh is offering a three-course vegan menu tonight and then once a month going forward. How fabulous!

Check out the menu from last month below:

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Fudge. Plain and simple.

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After I visit a city, it always takes me a long time to work through all the food I consumed and convert the tasty memories into blog posts. I have that well-known vegan condition that involves eating every single possible vegan dish available to me during a vacation. Almost like I’ve never seen food before. What’s wrong with us?

My recent Edinburgh trip was no different. Working out where vegan breakfast, lunch and dinner were to be enjoyed took precedence over getting to the castle or visiting the museum. The walks along the Royal Mile or down historic closes were planned with precision to ensure vegan food options took centre stage throughout my time in Edinburgh.

In addition to my baked potato experience, one of the most memorable frenzied pit stops for food involved vegan fudge. Thick, creamy and irresistible vegan fudge. The Fudge Kitchen located on the Royal Mile isn’t a vegan food outlet but they certainly know how to make plant-based eaters feel welcome.

The store has at least one vegan fudge option on show each day. My visit coincided with the overwhelmingly-scrumptious toffee variety made with soya cream.

Fudge Kitchen Edinburgh
Fudge Kitchen Edinburgh

Gorgeous vegan toffee fudge
Gorgeous vegan toffee fudge

I am trying to be a less food-driven tourist. Not as many of my trips are planned around the food available at the destination but it will be a long while until I am comfortable moving through a town without devouring every vegan dish on offer.

Find all Fudge Kitchen UK locations online

Follow Fudge Kitchen on Twitter

Like Fudge Kitchen on Facebook

 

Potato forever

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I adore potato. It is my favourite food. I love it so deeply, I even have a blog category dedicated to this precious gift from the Earth.

Knowing this about me, you can imagine the utter joy I felt upon discovering a vegetarian baked potato cafe during my recent trip to Edinburgh. This wonderland of carbs is filled with vegetarian and vegan options to pile on top of piping hot potato.

Even though I was only in the Scottish city for one night, I managed to visit The Baked Potato Shop twice and it was just about all the food I could manage during my visit. The servings were mammoth!

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