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Co-Op's Gro The Incredible Burger Review

If you're vegan you'll probably have a list of alternatives and, if you're like us, your list will have a few key things which companies...

Greggs Vegan Festive Bake Review

It's Christmas!!! It's great being vegan at the moment, it seems like every week there's an exciting new product to try and Veganuary is...

Green Vie Vegrill Halloumi review

Unless you can't have dairy, there's one thing every vegan will tell you - we miss cheese! Pizzas aren't quite the same, although Pizza...

The Best Vegan Double Chocolate Cookies

Who doesn't love chocolate chip cookies? Unfortunately for us, the majority of cookies on the market aren't vegan, and the vegan...

Green Cuisine Chicken-free Burgers Review

We've mentioned before, but in our household we have one long time veggie who went vegan and then we have one member who if you'd said...

Homemade Vegan Granola

When we completed our week of Plants over Processed (get your copy here), we had homemade granola every day. Even though we’ve changed...

Vegan Tomato and Vegetable Soup

This is healthy, child-approved and packed with goodness; what more is there to say? Ingredients 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil (optional)...

Nush Dairy Free Almond Milk Cheese with Chive Review

Every so often we have a scroll through websites like The Vegan Kind, Alternative Stores and we have a quick search when doing our online...

Chicago Town Deep Dish Cheezeburger Pizzas Review

Anyone else remember these bad boys from when they were kids? There was always a cheeky stash in the back of the freezer. The problem was...

Domino's Vegan Nuggets Review

We've already taken a look at Domino's new Chick-Ain't pizza, while it was ok, we weren't blown away - these nuggets on the other hand...

Subway's Vegan T.L.C (Tastes.Like.Chicken) Review

With Veganuary now upon us, there is the yearly deluge of new vegan options in supermarkets and food establishments! This year's no...

Thai Red Curry Noodles

When Amy pitched this recipe we weren't entirely sure it would work. Thai Red Curry is a classic, but as a curry. Turns out it works...

Sweet Potato Cakes

We were out for dinner in the summer and we went to a countryside pub. They had quite a good vegan selection...

Vegan Indian-style burger

We tried making a few variations of Indian-spiced burgers and, let's just say, we weren't too impressed! It was only when Amy thought...

The best Tomato Pasta Sauce

You might have noticed by now that Amy is a great lover of the tomato-based pasta. She believes that you can never go wrong with a basic tom

Aloo Gobi

As you've probably noticed, we love our Indian food. We thought we'd give something a little healthier a go this time with our Aloo Gobi...

Spicy Pasta Sauce

When Amy saw this recipe, she thought it was going to be a little strange but, with a bit of tweaking, we were both very impressed and it...

Vegetable Pakoras

Why didn’t anyone tell us sooner that Indian pakoras are amazing?! We’ve recently been trying to make our own and have been experimenting...

Indian Rice 2.0

We already have our Spicy Indian Rice but we thought it would be good to have something which is more of a meal in one....

Iceland 'No Porkies' Sausage rolls review

We think we can now safely declare the Vegan Sausage Roll to have been perfected. Greggs have nailed it, Walls have nailed it and without..

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We're a couple of 20-somethings who chose to eat plant-based at the end of 2019, but we're normal-ish and don't just want to eat salads!

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