I’ve made a big fuss on my blog recently about how I don’t celebrate Christmas (read here), but one thing I can get behind is vegan Christmas groceries getting heavily discounted after the date.
I popped into Sainsbury’s in Angel, London yesterday for a few essentials only to be distracted by these cheap Christmas foods.
Take a look at all nine items below.
First up are these vegan pigs in blankets which, for the uninitiated, are sausages wrapped in bacon. They have been marked down from £4.50 to £2.25.
I’m back from my tip to Australia, so Josh and I have found time to get back into the swing of the Tell Me Where I’m Going (Wrong) podcast.
Episode 75 finds us chatting about new vegan restaurants in London, vegan versions of non-vegan foods that were childhood favourites, the cultural significance of Christmas number one songs in the UK, and the recent terror event in Bondi.
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I love hosting parties for my community and one of the biggest I put on each year is my New Year’s Eve party.
This week I’m teaming up once again with legendary vegan venue Karamel in Wood Green on Wednesday 31st December, 2025 to celebrate the end of another calendar year.
Kath and Roger run the kitchen at Karamel and have planned a special one-night-only menu for our NYE celebration.
Knowing about my anti-Christmas stance you might be wondering what do I eat when everything is closed? Most Christmas Days of the past I have simply cooked a a meal in my own home, however I have become curious about restaurants that remain open on the day serving food that isn’t what a lot of people would consider traditional Christmas cuisine.
This year I was in Brisbane, Australia and was fortunate to discover that U-Tong Vegan Thai Restaurant was open on Christmas Day. It was a no-brainer to get along for a meal!
Yes it’s a let down because I pledged to blog every single day, but I do have a solid reason. I just spent more than a day traveling from Brisbane, Australia to London, United Kingdom.
It was an intense journey that started with me arriving at Brisbane airport four hours before my flight, followed by the 8+ hour flight to Hong Kong, an hour and a half layover, then a fourteen and a bit hour flight from Hong Kong to Heathrow.
Don’t forget the fact that the Elizabeth Line was out of service which meant a few Tube lines to get home. When I approached a TFL staff member at Heathrow to ask why the Elizabeth Line was down, they simply replied, “Boxing Day, innit”. Perfect welcome back home to the UK! Hahahaha.
Add all the flying, training, and waiting around and I’m pretty sure I was in transit for more than 30 hours.
But you didn’t just come here to listen to me complain. You want to see what vegan food I was served during my two flights, right?
There is a brand new vegan restaurant in Bristol and it is doing something genuinely unique.
Plantuguese has opened its first bricks and mortar location and is proudly claiming the title of the UK’s only fully vegan Portuguese restaurant. I am very much here for that!
Every so often I find myself pausing to think about what choosing veganism actually means.
When you live this way for a long time it can start to feel ordinary, even mundane. You shop, you eat, you live your life and it all feels normal. But the decision itself is anything but small.
Oliver, who has been a regular reader around these parts for a LONG time, kindly let me know that he isn’t yet tired of my posts from Brisbane, Australia.
With that knowledge, I am dedicating this post about some delicious vegan comfort food to Oliver.
I stopped participating in Christmas a long time ago and it was not a sudden decision or a dramatic moment. It crept up on me over time until I realised I was actively uncomfortable with the whole thing.
You are probably getting tired of reading about my trip to Brisbane, Australia.
I’ve been in my hometwon for the past few weeks but I am heading back to London in a few days, so you don’t have to put up with these Down Under updates for too much longer.
But before I head back to the land of 3:30pm sunsets, let me tell you about this lovely meal I recently enjoyed here in Brisbane.
