Vegan in the time of lockdown: Part one
What had I become? Some context… Prior to the pandemic lockdown in the UK – and my starting to work from home – I was training for a marathon. This meant running 50km a week and eating a well balanced, and controlled, diet (at least, as controlled as I am ever likely to achieve – […]
Saws, Hedges. Sauce, Edges
If there is one single food item that defined my decades of meat eating, it would be the sausage. I loved sausages. LOVED THEM! I was a sausage fiend. Cumberland, Lincolnshire; pork or beef. Hotdog, chipolata, chorizo, frankfurter, bratwurst, salami, saveloy, … pigs in blankets; you get the idea. Many of the great memories of […]
How ’bout them Oreos?
They are vegan, right? THEY AREN’T?! When I first started my vegan expedition, it didn’t take long for me to start looking for treats to keep me going. All those vegetables needed to be balanced with some refined sugar and a slap of indulgence. I happened on a blog post that named Oreo’s (among other […]
Marathon or snickers
Last weekend – displaying the kind of exuberant and ill-judged optimism that grips many of us in the New Year – I signed up to run a marathon. I’ve been a distance runner for over fifteen years now, starting in 2004 with my first Great North Run. During that time, I’ve maintained that I have […]
The Quorn Supremacy
I have been involved – if not quite immersed – in vegetarian ‘cuisine’ since I was at university in 1997. My then girlfriend (later wife and mother of my vegetarian offspring) was already an ethical vegetarian when we met. Being away at university was when I first found myself needing to engage in eating meat […]
Pulled Oumph!
Yesterday, I wrote a piece for my Guidebook about Oumph! (link here), a soy protein meat substitute from Sweden (although Oumph! go out of their way to maintain that their product range is not a replacement to meat, but rather a whole new food group unto itself). It was all positive, as I’m a big […]
Oumph! There it is!
It’s taken me a long time – and a decent amount of searching my browser history (always an anxious prospect) – to work out how and when I first heard of Oumph! For anyone interested, Oumph! are a client of Snask, a brilliant brand and design agency based in Sweden. I visited their website after […]
Happy Vegan-niversary
And that there, is a year. I took it on for a month, and I’ve lasted twelve. This is my vegan anniversary. 1st January 2019 I started eating meat-free. And – as I’ve admitted in earlier blogs – I haven’t stuck to it every single day. But I can confidently and honestly say that at […]
An Asda Vegan Christmas
So, a quick review of the festive food I used in my first ever vegan Christmas Dinner. All items bought from Asda, which is my go-to food shop deliverer. Vegan Wellington (By way of introductory context – I have, on many occasions, partaken of a Quorn Roast. I have already mentioned elsewhere that my relationship […]
A Christmassy Vegan
This Christmas was different for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it was the first full Christmas Day I can remember that I’ve had all to myself: my children having spent the day with their mum. So the flat, the TV schedule, and all of the food supplies, were mine alone. A truly novel experience. (Full […]
