Vegan food, travel and lifestyle
The meat industry doesn’t care whether the meat enters your mouth or not; they simply care that it enters your shopping bag. Whether you eat him or not, Babe has still died so that you can have that pasta lunch!Continue reading Can’t You Just Pick the Meat Off? A Rant.
A little while back I wrote about vegetarian food (or lack thereof) at festivals. With hit and miss experiences in the past, my main complaint was Warped Tour 2008 in Calgary where the only foods I could eat were crisps and lemonade ice blocks.
I had forgotten how delicious simple stir-fries can be. Usually, I make a stir-fry when I have a drawer full of veggies that need to be used up and I just throw in whatever I’ve got to hand. Sauces range from sweet chilli to honey-soy to chilli-lemon.
The other day when Holland & Barrett was having a penny sale (buy one item, get another for 1p – awesome!), I bought a whole lot of dried cranberries, not really knowing what I actually wanted to do with them. After a bit of Google roulette, I stumbled upon a recipe on EatingWell.com for Cranberry-Orange-Nut CookiesContinue reading Vegan Cranberry & Orange Cookies – A Quick and Easy Recipe
One of the foods I miss most from back home in Australia is pumpkin. Here in London, pumpkin is only really prevelant around Halloween and for the rest of the year, its brother fruit, the butternut squash fills supermarket shelves, soup cartons and risottos.
It was bad enough when I told people I went to a vegetarian restaurant at the weekend but when you say the words “vegan restaurant” to someone, they generally give you one of those disdainful “glad it’s you, not me” looks or make some throwaway comment about how going out for “rabbit food” is not a properContinue reading Going Raw Vegan at Saf Restaurant in London
I have never dated a fellow vegetarian. Asking a guy his dietary habits when he asks for my phone number is not exactly how I roll. Continue reading Vegetarian Dating: Yay or Nay to Meaty Mouths?
I love a good veggie burger, but they can tend to get a bit samey after a while. When I needed a change from the stock-standard burger recipe, I tried out the Sweet Potato Veggie Burger by the vegan blog, Happy Healthy Life.
Fact: Music festivals and live events are not always veggie-friendly environments.
When my housemate went away on holidays and left me her three almost black bananas, I was delighted. I haven’t baked in a few weeks and I can honestly say that I had been eyeing off those not-so-pretty bananas for days.