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Vegan Quarantine: Day 39

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Welcome to Vegan Quarantine: Day 39. 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 mentioned are included below.

If you can afford to donate a small amount to my campaign to keep the lights on and the Internet connected, I will be extremely grateful and here is the link:
https://paypal.me/pools/c/8oikSipsfP

Bottleshot Cold Brew is a new vegan-friendly cold brew coffee company. Buy online for shipping:
https://bottleshotbrew.com/

Feline Friends London is a charity taking care of sick cats and helping to facilitate rehoming. Please donate:
https://felinefriendslondon.uk/

Vegan Sadhu is making and selling vegan curry pastes and you can buy online:
https://www.thevegansadhu.com/

Recipe of the day. Easy vegan falafel by Nora Cooks:
https://www.noracooks.com/easy-vegan-falafel/

Zad’s Manchester is a vegan pizza joint and fast food takeaway still running deliveries around Manchester. Follow on Facebook and Instagram for details:
https://www.facebook.com/zadsmcr/
https://www.instagram.com/zadsmcr/

Music recommendation of the day.
Pick 1: Diagnosis by Alanis Morissette:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAX0rFrkJMA

Pick 2: Eden by Party Nails:
https://open.spotify.com/album/4CpsH78vadlQXjlBX1FWkI

Once again, please donate a few coins if you can to help me keep Vegan Quarantine videos up and running:
https://paypal.me/pools/c/8oikSipsfP

New online vegan shop launched

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Great news.

A new online vegan store has launched in the UK.

Veganubi was created by a couple based in Manchester with the aim to make typically ‘hard-to-find’ vegan products more accessible. The store offers over 3,000 vegan products and delivers them nationwide across the UK. The range covers everything from groceries, chocolate & snacks, health & beauty and cleaning products to vegan supplements and protein powders. They even stock vegan marshmallows, Easter eggs, chewing gum and hair colouring products.

With a selection covering over 100 top brands and plans to add new products every week, it’s a fantastic place to both stock up on your vegan staples and treat yourself to some indulgent goodies.

SPECIAL OFFER!

New customers can take advantage of an introductory 20% discount on the whole range with discount code: LAUNCH

Support this new vegan venture and save some money! Click here to shop.

You can follow Veganubi on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Vegan fine dining restaurant

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I’m normally fast on my feet when it comes to new vegan food, but even I’m struggling to keep up with all the updates coming out of the UK.

Stunning news has just reached me of a brand new vegan fine dining restaurant in Stockport!

The Allotment restaurant is the culmination of many pop up events around Wigan, Huddersfield, Manchester and Liverpool. The owners decided to take the plunge and open a stand alone eatery in the heart of Stockport.

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You can view the exquisite menu online here, which includes an exclusive chef’s tasting option that surely would impress anyone. You can also make table bookings via the website. This food looks fancy and has rave reviews on social media, so I think booking ahead would be smart. I think The Allotment is going to be a firm favourite of local foodies very quickly.

Like the Facebook page for The Allotment to keep up with latest news.

Greater Manchester has the vegan good stuff going on!

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Vegan ice cream in Manchester

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The vegan ice cream news just won’t quit. Check out this vegetarian ice cream shop located in the Manchester neighbourhood of Withington.

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Ice Shack is a dessert parlour with some solid vegan options.

I’ve posted a selection of the vegan menu items below:

Vegan Ice Cream Flavours (isolated in their own vegan freezer)

Coconut/Chocolate/Raspberry/Raspberry and mango/Strawberry/Vanilla/Wild berry/Blackcurrant sorbet/Lemon sorbet/Orange sorbet

Vegan truffles

Dark chocolate/Dark chocolate and ginger/Dark chocolate, lime and chilli

Vegan Cakes and Pastries

Apple pie/Chocolate cake/Lemon Cheesecake/Mango and passion fruit cheesecake/Sponge/Flapjack
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Sounds tasty!

You can like Ice Shack on Facebook, visit their website and follow them on Twitter.

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Vegan fry up to make you drool

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Manchester, you lucky ducklings.

You already have so many fabulous places to eat vegan food and now this gorgeous fry up falls into your laps. Astounding.


It looks as though the vegans of Manchester have been working overtime to demand better options because non-vegan places are falling over themselves to stuff their menus with plant-based options.

The above photo show the vegan fry up being served by The Deaf Institute on Grosvenor Street in the city centre. You can grab a plate of homemade vegan sausage, potato cake, hash brown and baked beans from 4pm this Sunday (10 April, 2016) along with other items packed onto a newly-extended vegan menu.

This news has made me incredibly hungry. Sadly I am in Mexico City where the concept of a vegan fry up is nowhere to be found. I will take it as a grave personal insult if you do not try this plate of food on my behalf.

Follow The Deaf Institute on Instagram for more shots of their vegan items.

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Vegetarian restaurant is now a UK chain

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By 1847 is a restaurant serving vegetarian food (with a solid showing of vegan offerings) located in the heart of Manchester. You can see my original post about the restaurant from WAY back by clicking here.

I’m not sure if I’ve been completely asleep but somehow I have missed how rapidly this business has expanded and how far flung the new locations are around the country.

By 1847 now have the original Manchester location plus Brighton, Bristol and Birmingham outlets. They are spreading quickly.

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Pop along to one of the restaurants to check out their vegan offerings, including a multi-course Sunday lunch option.

It’s a shame that such a gorgeous meat-free restaurant chain with a smart vision on how to expand still includes dairy on the menu. I have thoroughly enjoyed all of my dining experiences with By 1847 but that enjoyment is dampened somewhat by knowing they serve animal derived ingredients.

By 1847 really know what they are doing with food, wine and beer. I sincerely hope they come to see dairy as an unnecessary part of their success.

Follow By 1847 on Instagram and visit their website for location details.

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Get loved up

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Post by:

josh panel

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.

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Vegan Beer Fest UK

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Hold on to your pint glasses, people. News doesn’t come bigger than this.

Following on from the meteoric rise in popularity of London Vegan Beer Fest which resulted in 1000 guests enjoying the 2015 event, I am thrilled to announce I will be taking the event around the UK in 2016.

Of course London Vegan Beer Fest will be back for a 4th year this July, but I will also be staging the event in Manchester and Glasgow.

The Manchester and Glasgow events will have everything that is adored about the London event, but also unique twists to suit the city we are in. That means attendees will be able to get hold of branded pint cups/glasses, beer tick sheets, exclusive merchandise, and close to 100 different vegan beers from around the country, as well as gorgeous vegan food cooked up by local food vendors and restaurants.

While final details will follow soon, I can tell you Glasgow Vegan Beer Fest will take place in August 2016 while Manchester Vegan Beer Fest will roll out in September.

You can follow the official Vegan Beer Fest UK Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts. This is where you will get breaking news about dates, venues and tickets.

Vegan-friendly store closed

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Apologies for being the postal service of bad news lately, but it appears extremely tough work is required to keep a business open in this day and age.

Remember when I wrote about the vegan-friendly grocery and health store in Manchester called Win Naturally?

The store, owned by Julie and Phil Neville, was located inside the Arndale centre in Manchester city centre. They store was packed with mostly vegan toiletries, groceries, healthy snacks, supplements and more. It was kind of like a supersized Holland & Barrett.

During my trip to Manchester a few weeks back, I stopped by the store to pick up a few things and was greeted by the following vision.

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Manchester has it

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Manchester has a lot of fab vegan things going for it and right up there on that list is the plant-based menu at Ning.

Ning is a Malaysian cuisine eatery situated next door to the current location of V Revolution. Even though I’ve written about Ning in the past, my recent trip there was so outstanding I wanted to share the food photos with you all.

Check this out.

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