This is fabulous.
The wonderful people behind Newcastle’s best (only?) vegan restaurant Painted Elephant are launching a tasty-sounding vegan lunchbox service in January.
Check it out below.
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Hold the Meat!
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As I was meeting a friend for dinner at the behemothic Westfield London shopping mall in White City earlier this week, I googled ‘vegan westfield london’ beforehand and a Brazilian restaurant called Cabana Brasilian Barbecue popped up as the third result. Intrigued, I clicked through to their website to discover that despite their name, this national chain clearly mark vegan options on their menus. So with some reservations about going anywhere with the word ‘barbecue’ in the name, I decided to give it a try.
Crispy chicken sandwich
How awesome does this sandwich look?!
I made my first ever trip to the Manchester cafe called Teatime Collective yesterday and this sandwich had me feeling extremely pleased with myself.
Teatime Collective made their name serving tasty vegan food at festivals, but took the plunge to open a bricks and mortar location in the Manchester neighbourhood of Hulme.
The menu is packed with fab comfort food such as burgers, fries and sodas plus you can even treat yourself to an ice cream sundae.
Follow Teatime Collective on Twitter and Instagram.
Fry’s online
BREAKING NEWS.
I’m just a few weeks out from my move to Mexico, meaning my job with Fry’s Family Foods UK is coming to an end. I will no longer be the first to bring you exciting news such as the following:
Fry’s now have four products available to buy via Morrisons online!
You can click on the above image to visit the online shop.
The supermarket is selling just 4 of the 20+ product range available in the UK, but it is a great start.
Do you shop with Morrisons online?
Not so tasty
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On a recent trip to Leeds I saw this Turkey Style, Ham Style & Leek Pie by VBites and curiosity got the better of me.
I have to admit I was quite disappointed.
The filling was an odd-looking mixture of meats and veggies which didn’t taste particularly appetising. Although I like VBites’ turkey-style roast and their ham-style slices, the flavourless sauce and soggy carrots combined with the two meat replacements in this pie didn’t work for me.
The lacklustre pastry only served to speed the pie’s trip to the bin after just a few bites.
Scotland
This is a big weekend coming up in Glasgow and I’m thrilled to have plans to be there.
If you haven’t heard, the first ever Vegfest Scotland is roaring to life on both Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th December, 2015.
Like all VegfestUK shows, the Glasgow version in the SECC is set to be rammed with tasty food vendors, vegan companies, educational talks, debate panels and more.
I have my own FGV stall across both days of the show where I will be selling t-shirts and postcards. 15% of sales from the t-shirts is being donated to vegan community kitchen Made in Hackney.
If you are visiting the show on Sunday, you can also join me for an informal talk on how to begin a vegan blog. I will be discussing my tips for getting an online platform up and running and I’m looking forward to answering questions.
You can join in this session from 1:30pm Sunday December 6th, 2015.
Click here to buy entry tickets.
Also…
You can join me at legendary vegan venue The Flying Duck for a one night only Scottish version of my London club night, Queer Vegan Disco.
Kicking off at 11:00pm, we will be pumping a few hours of pop, indie, rock, alternative, 80s, 90s, top 40 and more.
Tickets are £5 on the door or only £3 if you buy in advance online.
RSVP and invite friends on the Facebook event and buy tickets online now.
See you in Scotland!
Being vegan and medicine
You might remember the sad news I featured on my blog a short while ago about my friend, Indira.
Indira is one of the most compassionate people I have had the pleasure of meeting and I was deeply saddened to learn she had been diagnosed with secondary breast cancer of the liver.
You can read my original post here.
Indira reached out to me this week to ask if I would allow her to post a piece of writing she has compiled on the emotional struggle of being a dedicated vegan faced with medication which has undoubtedly been tested on animals.
Here are Indira’s thoughts:
Hastings event
Need an excuse to visit Hastings?
Here it is!
Yay for vegan Hastings!
Tofu curry-mango
Here is a super quick post to inform you of one of my favourite fridge staples.
Josh and I always have a packet of this gorgeous mango and curry flavoured tofu in the house. It is the perfect accompaniment to pasta and rice dishes.
The only real problem with this product? About half of it ends up in my belly before it can make it into whatever we are cooking.
Check out this fab stir fried rice featuring broccolini, green beans, mushroom, spring onion and red pepper that we topped with the mango curry tofu.
So very delicious!
Is this your favourite tofu? Or have you got another go-to flavour?
Crispy newness
Check out these fab new crunchy snacks I discovered in my local Co-operative supermarket.
They are not stunning, but they are cheap and cheerful. I didn’t stop eating once I tore the bag open, but I’m not sure that is a yardstick for quality.
You can also look out for the new lentil curls in the same range which will probably be sitting next to these on the shelf.
Have you tried these new snacks? What do you think?