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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

Hannah Banana

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All I have been hearing for the past few years is “Hannah Banana this” and “Hannah Banana that”. People have been falling over themselves to tell me how the Southampton-based vegan bakery is incredible and my life is worth nothing without eating their sweet treats.

Well, I finally got a package from Hannah Banana Bakery a few days ago and you wanna know something?

Hannah Banana Bakery is FUCKING amazing!

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Quorn doing vegan

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MAJOR vegan update for Quorn – available in UK from October 2015 – click here to read more

I find out a lot of information over on Facebook.

Last week Robb posted about Rekorderlig cider not being vegan which led to this post. Wayne is always sharing with me news of vegan food, including the glorious sandwich market stall Killer Tomato. Today I woke to a post on my wall from Sammy all about a tasting session for new vegan Quorn products. That’s right, Quorn are finally rolling out some plant-based options in the UK.

There has been talk for a while of a vegan burger made by the company, but enquiries were always met with a response of ‘no plans as of now to sell it in the UK’.

If you can be in Southampton on Saturday June 21, 2014 and you want to be one of the first people in the UK to try new vegan options from Quorn, it seems you could possibly even be paid for your opinions.

Follow this link to read all about it on the Rice Up Wholefoods website. The link includes details on how to register for the tasting.

If you do go, please pop on over to my Facebook page after the event and tell me all about it. I am so curious!

UPDATE – since posting the above info, I have received a few comments from people suggesting I should not give any exposure to Quorn or it’s parent company Premier Foods. Premier Foods is a huge business that also owns the Cauldron brand (amongst many, many more). It reportedly generated over £800 million revenue last year.

Please comment below with any concerns you have about the ethical concerns associated with buying from such a huge company/a company that makes huge amounts of profit from selling animal products.

ANOTHER UPDATE – As pointed out by a passionate commentator below, Quorn is no longer owned by Premier Foods. It was acquired by Montagu Private Equity. You can view the portfolio of this organisation by clicking here.

 

And no-one spoke and no-one smiled

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“Here we go again. FGV is complaining about a vegetarian restaurant. Why can’t vegans just take what they get?”

Indian Melody was the scene of one of the most disappointing dining experiences I have ever had in the UK. I thought I was onto a sure thing when I discovered an almost entirely-vegan Indian restaurant in the city of Southampton, but I was rudely awakened to a different reality.

Indian Melody
Indian Melody

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Vegans helping vegans

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This is the kind of blog post I adore writing. There is nothing more satisfying than helping spread news of vegan companies helping organisations dedicated to furthering the well-being of non-human animals.

I recently spoke with Lisa of UK-based vegan food distributor Beanie’s Health Foods about the wonderful support they offer to whale protectors Sea Shepherd. Lisa and her father own and run their company that supplies Fry’s Vegetarian frozen foods to the whole of the UK (Remember our campaign to get them back in a certain High Street retailer?). They are the sponsors of next week’s London Vegan Potluck 7, so you can just imagine the amount of delicious, vegan food we will be consuming.

Enjoy this brief chat I had with Lisa about why her company supports Sea Shepherd, what you can do to help their cause and what exciting developments the future holds for Beanie’s Health Foods and Fry’s Vegetarian in the UK. Sounds like there are some massive plans afoot…

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