That’ll do! This is what Ed and the girls have produced this morning for me. Vegan hollandaise sauce (recipe from http://www.hotforfoodblog.com/recipes/2014/2/27/vegan-hollandaise-sauce) on mushrooms, baby spinach and avocado, on delicious multi seed toast.
Completely delicious!
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Here’s a recipe I found on Food 52 for a delicious vegan pesto. I make a huge vat of this on the weekend and use it all week on pasta, in baked potatoes, drizzled on tomatoes, in sandwiches, wraps, on toast, crackers – anything basically. The kids love it too and you’d never know it was dairy free as the nutritional yeast gives it a deep cheesy kick! It’s packed full of flavour so a little goes a long way.
Makes 1 generous cup
Voila!
Amusing article published in The Guardian recently.
Funny video about the endless stream of questions (some insightful, some less so…) that vegans get asked relentlessly every day…
So I’ve just done a weekly food shop and thought I’d photograph it for you as people are always asking ‘what on earth do you eat all week’? So here it is…
So this was two trips – one to an independent greengrocers in Southfields for all the fruit and veg…
…and one to Wholefoods for everything else…
The fruit and veg cost £31 and includes some quite expensive imported goodies such as pineapple, avocados, limes etc.. and the Wholefoods shop came to £52 and includes some quite specialist expensive things like a big bag of Cocoa nibs (£14) to keep me in chocolate and banana soy milkshakes for the rest of my pregnancy! and Arrowroot for tonight’s frittata fiesta… posh crackers, posh chocolate, a sushi rolling mat, posh dressing, very posh crackers, elderflower cordial etc so this shop would normally have been more like £30. We then usually do an online shop at GoodnessDirect.com for all our toiletries and house cleaning kit, roughly every 3 months, and that comes to about £50. So that’s a monthly spend on everything of between £250 and £300 which for a greedy family of four I’d say is pretty good.
Before turning vegan, we shopped in Sainsburys and I could never keep the weekly shop to under £100 a week. Meat and cheese are expensive! And we hardly eat any processed food any more. We were always filling the trolley up with whatever was on offer in an attempt to spend les and the result was we ate far more, far less healthily, always shopped in supermarkets and spent more money.
Now, we shop in far more ethical sops, have massively reduced our carbon footprint as a family, buy far better quality food, way healthier food and spend less overall. And the whole shopping experience is a far nicer one too. I don’t miss battling through Sainsburys on a Saturday afternoon with screaming children hanging out of the trolley whilst I stuff breadsticks into them in a bid to keep them occupied whist I grab anything with a 2 for 1 sticker on it…
Now I’m on first name terms with my veg man and the kids help him fill up the bags whilst he teaches them the difference between yellow courgettes and Spanish courgettes and Wholefoods is basically like food porn for anyone who enjoys eating!
Tim Shieff is one of the world’s top professional freerunners… and vegan.
This article was featured in The Guardian on Jan 17th 2014, written by Damian Clarkson
There are over 300 comments made on this article (and growing) which make for amusing reading if you’re interested – http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/veganuary-campaign-sustainable-eating-vegan-diet?commentpage=1
Are there chicken sheds in heaven? 