Vegan in the time of lockdown: Part three
The call of the wild(erness) As I have made clear in previous posts, my conversion to veganism was for health reasons. I felt that a diet free from meat and dairy would be the best way to combat my existing health concerns, as well as addressing my growing anxiety over ailments and illnesses that my […]
Vegan in the time of lockdown: Part two
How I learned to stop worrying and become vegetarian Clearly, this is not the platform to discuss my (or anyone’s) mental health circumstances as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Suffice it to say that I found the first six weeks of lockdown to be very difficult. In an environment when complaints about self isolating […]
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 – […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
No true vegan
The thing is, I’m not a vegan. Not really. I eat a vegan diet, avoiding all meat, dairy and eggs. But the other elements of a vegan lifestyle are not something I adhere to all that closely. I mean, within the last year I’ve had no occasion to buy any leather or silk clothing, nor […]
You still wearing socks?
“Are you still vegan, then?” I’ve heard that so many times now. Why not ask “Are you still atheist?” or “Are you still wearing socks”. I guess there’s just an assumption that I won’t stick with it long term; that at some point I’ll just jack it in and go back to the hotdogs. And […]
Christmas in the wilderness
It’s been almost a year now. More or less twelve months of meat-free living. It’s not been without an occasional fall off the meat wagon. Like that time I was ‘tricked’ into eating a hotdog. Or when I succumbed to a fudge-crunch sundae at the beach. And a bit of chocolate cake square on a […]
Starting out
Beginnings… Somewhere between Boxing Day and New Year in 2018, things changed. For some reason, I believed that I hadn’t indulged enough with all the meat and chocolate, and I decided to make myself a spaghetti carbonara. It had all the good stuff: smoked bacon, italian sausage, cream, marscapone, and a liberal sprinkle of grated […]
