This is my favourite vegan chocolate, but it is £2.39 for an 80g bar, so it's a special treat
ILLYRIAN
What is it in other shops or at the supplier.
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This is my favourite vegan chocolate, but it is £2.39 for an 80g bar, so it's a special treat
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I'm neither Vegetarian or Vegan by design but I tend towards the former simply because I don't much care for meat. However, this has just caught my eye (please note Iceland refers to a supermarket chain - not the country):
Iceland's Christmas TV ad banned for being too political
This linked to this:
Iceland supermarket vows to eliminate plastic on all own-branded products
and then this:
Faux-rizo: Iceland to sell 13 vegan-friendly foods, including chorizo replica
To paraphrase their previous ad, I'm gonna shop in Iceland. 😀
Iceland's Christmas TV ad banned for being too political
This linked to this:
Iceland supermarket vows to eliminate plastic on all own-branded products
and then this:
Faux-rizo: Iceland to sell 13 vegan-friendly foods, including chorizo replica
To paraphrase their previous ad, I'm gonna shop in Iceland. 😀
nightshade
No Iceland here, nearest is about 10 miles away
Does sound delicious though!
Does anyone meal plan, or have a rough list of meals they have during the course of a week? I'm trying to get ideas of different meals to try, Pinterest is great but there's too much on there for me to get an idea of things that would actually work, ones that maybe I could freeze a portion of or refrigerate.
I am tempted to make this:Pumpkin Coconut Curry (vegan, oil-free) | Sarahs Vegan Guide however I've never actually made a curry before, at least not one that hasn't come out of a jar!
Does anyone meal plan, or have a rough list of meals they have during the course of a week? I'm trying to get ideas of different meals to try, Pinterest is great but there's too much on there for me to get an idea of things that would actually work, ones that maybe I could freeze a portion of or refrigerate.
I am tempted to make this:Pumpkin Coconut Curry (vegan, oil-free) | Sarahs Vegan Guide however I've never actually made a curry before, at least not one that hasn't come out of a jar!
I have questions that I hope do not sound like shit stirring, because I genuinely want to know from a vegan standpoint, perhaps I could learn more things to add to my own lifestyle.
How much do you know about how your beans, grains and vegetables are harvested? Does excessive fertiliser use (toxic run off) factor into veganism? What about the machinery used to harvest the plants? Theses ALL contain animals materials, are run on fossil fuels and cause immediately visible erosion and atmospheric issues. How do you feel about the transport of the food from the farms to the processing? The diesel trucks used are getting heavier, so roads need more upgrading (using otherwise recyclable glass as road base) and there are currently 1000's of birds killed by traffic after feeding from spilt grain on the sides of the roads. This is just for the raw ingredients, not even taking packaging and further handling into consideration. A truck driver consumes the lowest grade meat and enough to cover 3 people who have given it up.
Does it matter how the food is grown? Would you eat hydroponically grown vegetables? Does real sunlight and rain matter, or can the electricity used be written off as a need? What about water and the quality and availability of this?
If I won lotto I would start aquaponics. I have come to realise in my own home gardening experiments that fertiliser is needed in excess here to keep the soil in suitable growing condition. This is very expensive and consists largely of dead animal and fish products.
I visited a very large wetland area today. Salinity is a MAJOR environmental issue because of mass clearing to grow crops. There were a team of scientist on site today after the earthquake, as the water in the lakes is known to disappear after a quake. To me - an uneducated bogan - it all seems so obviously connected. The earth is trying to heal from the damage we have done to feed the over population and continue the consumeristic desires of the very wealthy.
How much do you know about how your beans, grains and vegetables are harvested? Does excessive fertiliser use (toxic run off) factor into veganism? What about the machinery used to harvest the plants? Theses ALL contain animals materials, are run on fossil fuels and cause immediately visible erosion and atmospheric issues. How do you feel about the transport of the food from the farms to the processing? The diesel trucks used are getting heavier, so roads need more upgrading (using otherwise recyclable glass as road base) and there are currently 1000's of birds killed by traffic after feeding from spilt grain on the sides of the roads. This is just for the raw ingredients, not even taking packaging and further handling into consideration. A truck driver consumes the lowest grade meat and enough to cover 3 people who have given it up.
Does it matter how the food is grown? Would you eat hydroponically grown vegetables? Does real sunlight and rain matter, or can the electricity used be written off as a need? What about water and the quality and availability of this?
If I won lotto I would start aquaponics. I have come to realise in my own home gardening experiments that fertiliser is needed in excess here to keep the soil in suitable growing condition. This is very expensive and consists largely of dead animal and fish products.
I visited a very large wetland area today. Salinity is a MAJOR environmental issue because of mass clearing to grow crops. There were a team of scientist on site today after the earthquake, as the water in the lakes is known to disappear after a quake. To me - an uneducated bogan - it all seems so obviously connected. The earth is trying to heal from the damage we have done to feed the over population and continue the consumeristic desires of the very wealthy.
I think it varies hugely by where you live, I could eat very well with food that hasn't had to travel more than 50 miles, I could easily eat well with less mileage than that. However I'm in farming country, where you go down the road and you can smell the apple orchards as the apples are all dropping now. Other times of year it's rapeseed, wheat, barley, blackcurrants, strawberries, and all sorts. People who live in cities or in places where there isn't as much around have to import more food, also it's about personal preferences, do you want to eat only locally, or only food you have grown yourself, do you want to go organic, or do you eat what you can afford and try and do your best to cut out anything that has animal products. I think for most people it's the latter, you try and do your best but can't afford, either health or moneywise, to only eat things that you have personally grown, so you know the whole life of the fruit or the vegetables.
So, it is a change in lifestyle to products with specific ingredients, less so "greenie"?
I am interested in Aquaponics. I think I tried to start a thread on it a while ago but got on the wrong track. I knew what I knew in my head but not the name of it. Would that work for vegans if the fish were then re-used on other garden areas instead of consumed, or would fish grown in this way be suitable for consumption?
I am interested in Aquaponics. I think I tried to start a thread on it a while ago but got on the wrong track. I knew what I knew in my head but not the name of it. Would that work for vegans if the fish were then re-used on other garden areas instead of consumed, or would fish grown in this way be suitable for consumption?
I need to stop going to the supermarket, I go in there and immediately want to get out, so never actually buy anything, but the essentials for that day.
I'm going to go to the farm shop tomorrow and get a bunch of fruit and vegetables, then I can restock the freezer with soups and I can do a batch of creamed leeks. (I use soya cream and dairy free butter)
I'm going to go to the farm shop tomorrow and get a bunch of fruit and vegetables, then I can restock the freezer with soups and I can do a batch of creamed leeks. (I use soya cream and dairy free butter)
@ILLYRIAN not sure, I think it's more in the organic shop but those two are the only ones I've seen it in, however I don't mind too much as it does mean that I don't buy it often and enjoy it when I do. Now if I could just remember that when the normal chocolate is calling me. You would think the effect that dairy has on my skin would make me stop, but 70p a bar when I have that nutty chocolate craving is hard to resist.
I got some silverbeet from my neighbour to make a cauliflower and silverbeet soup. I think it is suitable for vegans - please correct if not!
Half a cauliflower
a few leaves of silverbeet (equivalent to 3/4 cups chopped, its a good idea to squeeze this a bit to reduce the oxalic acid),
1 large onion (I used two but one was sorta growing lol)
1 pack of French onion soup
Salt and pepper (plus any other spices you like to taste)
Boil in a pot with a couple cups of water - depending on how runny you like it. I like chunky cold soup so I only put enough water in to cover the cauli and loaded the rest on top.
Cook until soft and squishable with a fork.
Let cool and blitz with a hand wizzer
Serve warm or cool with pepper.
If you have non vegans to feed in the household, you can add Greek yogurt to bulk it up to serve as well, adding one potato would give a similar effect.
Half a cauliflower
a few leaves of silverbeet (equivalent to 3/4 cups chopped, its a good idea to squeeze this a bit to reduce the oxalic acid),
1 large onion (I used two but one was sorta growing lol)
1 pack of French onion soup
Salt and pepper (plus any other spices you like to taste)
Boil in a pot with a couple cups of water - depending on how runny you like it. I like chunky cold soup so I only put enough water in to cover the cauli and loaded the rest on top.
Cook until soft and squishable with a fork.
Let cool and blitz with a hand wizzer
Serve warm or cool with pepper.
If you have non vegans to feed in the household, you can add Greek yogurt to bulk it up to serve as well, adding one potato would give a similar effect.
These two are my processed foods favs, I'm trying to cut as much processed as I can, but for a quick meal either of these are great
HowiMetdaSlayer
crunchy burger? 😧🐿
Good life burgers are the best!!
These two are my processed foods favs, I'm trying to cut as much processed as I can, but for a quick meal either of these are great
nightshade
I do like their mushroom and spinach kievs too
Usually I make hot chocolate just with hot water, but I had one of those chocolate on the stick types, and figured it wouldn't work properly with just water, so I heated up almond milk for it, the milk took longer than I thought to heat up, but it tastes great, I did worry that it might overpower the chocolate, but it's all good. I'll definitely do it again. Mainly as it was a two pack of hot choc!
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Had a cooking day today, made this butternut squash curry, I didn't measure anything so it was a little watery, but I did add baby potatoes, as they needed using up. I'll make it again, but add less water and learn to chop onions better!
Also made my own version of the Nakd bars, I made it up as I was going, used dates, cashews and walnuts, realised there was too many nuts and it wasn't sticking together so added an apple too and it's stuck together better, it's now chilling in the fridge so we'll see what it's like later on.
I have some butternut squash left, so I'll make a soup with it and some sweet potato, no recipe, just make it up as I go again!
Also made my own version of the Nakd bars, I made it up as I was going, used dates, cashews and walnuts, realised there was too many nuts and it wasn't sticking together so added an apple too and it's stuck together better, it's now chilling in the fridge so we'll see what it's like later on.
I have some butternut squash left, so I'll make a soup with it and some sweet potato, no recipe, just make it up as I go again!
My homemade nakd bars taste good, but lack structure, and they aren't really any cheaper, the nuts I have loads leftover but I would need more dates to make more and they do use a lot of those. I'll probably just buy them, but it was worth a try.