A few weeks ago Matt and I went to Leeds for the weekend and we had an incredible takeaway from Pizzanet which I had to tell you guys about!
Matt ordered the 16″ Thin Vegan Margherita and I went for the 9″ Deep Gourmet Vegan; both pizzas were absolutely delicious and super reasonably priced (we’re talking around £15 total!).
So if you’re in Leeds and are looking for a vegan-friendly pizza takeaway, be sure to check out Pizzanet!
Last week, my mum, Poppy, Panda and I visited Potato Tomato – an awesome little 100% vegan pop-up restaurant located in the Whitstable Harbour Markets on the Kent Coast.
Potato Tomato serves a great variety of homemade vegan food, both hot and cold. On top of having a delicious menu, its insanely cute beach hut location, reasonably priced menu and the fact that it’s dog-friendly makes Potato Tomato the perfect place to grab lunch on a beach day out.
My mum and I ordered two main meals to share: the double stack cheese burger and the cornish pie with chips. I’ve never tried a cornish pasty, but according to my mum the cornish pie tasted exactly like a traditional cornish pasty, which explains why Potato Tomato is so popular with vegans and non-vegans alike. During our visit, it was so great to hear people come over who are not vegan and say how much they love the food, a real testament to how creative and flavourful Potato Tomato’s menu is.
The burger was stacked full with delicious ingredients including not one but two burger patties, vegan cheese, onions, lettuce, tomato and of course lots of sauce. I absolutely loved it, so much in fact that I kinda hoped my mum wouldn’t like it so that I could eat her half too but unfortunately for me she agreed that it was amazing!
For dessert we shared a heated chocolate orange brownie which had melted chocolate in the middle making it absolutely heavenly! We loved it so much that we bought four more to take away, as well as a piece of the lemon drizzle cake and a piece of banana, chocolate and nut cake. They were all so delicious and barely lasted a couple of days in our house!
After our visit to Potato Tomato, we spent the day chilling on the beach and walking around Whitstable Harbour Markets where we bought some art and also some veggie dog treats from The Whitstable Dog Company (which is opposite Potato Tomato)!
I vlogged our entire day at Whitstable beach, including our visit to Potato Tomato so if you’d like to see more behind the scenes, you can watch that here:
If you’re planning a trip to the Kent Coast, be sure to check out Potato Tomato for some delicious food, and all of the other awesome businesses in the Whitstable Harbour markets for a great day of beachside shopping!
As you all know, I absolutely love travelling and have shared lots of vegan travel posts on this blog and on my YouTube channel over the past couple of years. So, when I was asked to give a speech at the first ever Surrey Vegan Fair (which took place last weekend), I decided to talk about: MY TOP TIPS TO MAKE TRAVELLING AS A VEGAN AS FUN, EASY & STRESS-FREE AS POSSIBLE! It was such a fun experience and I think the tips are all super helpful, so I decided to write them up into a blog post so that you can all access them any time you like! If you have any tips to add, be sure to write them in the comments down below!
I always set aside around an hour before going on a trip to research vegan / vegan-friendly restaurants in location where I’ll be staying. The main resources I use to do this are:
After I’ve done a little research, I prepare a list of the top restaurants that I want to visit and take that with me on my trip.
Being prepared will require a little bit of pre-planning but it will save you so much time and stress on your trip so will definitely be worth it. There are 3 main ways I prepare:
If you’re travelling to a country where you don’t speak the native language, you’ll need a way to communicate your dietary needs. The way I do this is to:
If you don’t have a particular place in mind to travel to, there are plenty of ways that you can make your trip vegan-friendly:
In case you’re looking for ideas of great vegan-friendly places for your next trip, here are my top 5 vegan-friendly cities that I’ve visited!
When travelling as a vegan, you want to ensure you don’t support any unethical tourist attractions that exploit animals. However, this doesn’t mean that you can’t interact with animals on your holiday; in fact, travel provides a great opportunity to see animals in their natural environment and perhaps even to volunteer at a conservation project / animal sanctuary. And fear not, as for every unethical tourist attraction, there is an awesome alternative:
If you would like more detailed tips, you can watch my full speech from the event here:
The Jade Green Vegan Compassionate Clothing Line BLACK FRIDAY SALE is here a few days early!
With up to 50% off selected items, it’s the perfect time to treat yourself, or even do some early Christmas shopping! To shop the sale, head to: https://jadegreenvegan.com/black-friday-sale/
Happy Shopping! xo Jade
Last weekend we had a stall at the West Midlands Vegan Festival for the Jade Green Vegan Compassionate Clothing Line. We had a great weekend meeting lots of lovely people, and it was made even better by the fact that we spent a day with Matt’s mum and dad on the way home as they live fairly near by in Malvern.
Matt’s mum and dad called lots of local restaurants to see if any of their menus could be veganised and Gallery 36 was by far one of the most accommodating. Even though Gallery 36 isn’t a specifically vegetarian/vegan restaurant, they have lots of vegetarian options and were so helpful and really knowledgable in telling us which dishes could be made vegan.
I ordered the Vegetarian Platter (less halloumi and aioli, add extra falafel). The platter had a great variety of veggie dishes – I especially loved the falafel and stuffed vine leaves – and was served with a big rustic baguette making it super filling.
Matt went for the Veggie Breakfast (less the free range egg) – another very easily veganisable dish – and absolutely loved it!
So if you find yourself in Malvern, I’d definitely recommend visiting Gallery 36, and be sure to ask your waiter which dishes can be veganised as there were lots of others our waiter mentioned (including the patatas bravas and the vegetable bean chilli enchiladas)!
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If you’d like to watch a vlog of our weekend at the festival and in Malvern, you can check that out here:
The Tipsy Black Sheep is a veggie catering company run by two lovely girls: Hayley and Ruth. They currently have a pop-up shop in Beckenham and I was so excited to have the opportunity to check it out last week.
Hayley and Ruth were so kind and welcoming, and it was really lovely to meet two people who are so genuinely passionate about what they do. Their creative menu has such a great variety of options and is so reasonably priced, meaning we definitely had a difficult time when deciding what to order.
After much deliberation, I decided to order the Red Lentil Burger with coleslaw and sweet potato chips on the side. The burger patty was bursting with flavour and was accompanied by the perfect combination of delicious toppings.
My mum ordered the Yellow Lentil Curry with green rice and was a big fan. She (reluctantly) let me try a little bit and I agreed that it was absolutely delicious.
Both the chilli-me-sofly chocolate brownie and the banana cake looked amazing so we decided to order them both and share. Topped with caramel sauce, they were both so sweet, delicious and moist. My mum said that they are the best vegan cakes she’s ever had, and in fact, we loved them so much that my mum decided to buy another 2 of each to take away with us!
The warm and friendly atmosphere in the shop, coupled with the amazing food makes The Tipsy Black Sheep pop-up a must visit! So, if you find yourself near Beckenham make sure to check it out – I’m sure you’ll love it just as much as we did!
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Update: unfortunately the pop-up shop has now closed but The Tipsy Black Sheep still do private catering and will soon be offering a delivery service (which I’m super excited about). You can read more about that here: http://www.thetipsyblacksheep.com/catering-menu/
Halloween is one of my favourite times of year, so today I am really excited to share my top 5 Halloween treats with you all. All of these recipes are vegan, delicious & super easy to make, so whether you’re hosting a halloween party, looking for something you can make with the kids or even just want to try out a creative seasonal recipe, then you’ve come to the right place! There’s lots of spooky deliciousness to get through, so I’ll get straight into it ▷▷▷
Ingredients ▷▷▷ Dairy-free chocolate (light & dark), 3 cups self-raising flour, 2 cups vanilla soya milk, 1 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup cacao powder & 1 teaspoon baking powder
Instructions ▷▷▷ Mix together flour, soya milk, sugar, cacao powder and baking powder. Spoon into baking trays & bake in the oven at 180 degrees for 15 minutes. Melt chocolate, cover cakes in one colour & use knife to decorate spiderweb pattern in the other colour.
Ingredients ▷▷▷ Dairy-free chocolate, oranges & veggie marshmallows
Instructions ▷▷▷ Melt chocolate, peel oranges & cover oranges in melted chocolate. Leave to cool in fridge for 1 hour. Cut marshmallows into desired shapes & stick on chocolate oranges to make cat faces.
Ingredients ▷▷▷ Dairy-free light chocolate, strawberries & raisins
Instructions ▷▷▷ Melt chocolate, wash strawberries, remove stem & stick lollipop stick in the top. Cover strawberries in melted chocolate. Leave to cool for 1 hour. Cut raisins into desired shapes & stick on chocolate covered strawberries to make ghost faces.
Ingredients ▷▷▷ 2 bananas, 1 cup ice, 1 tablespoon spirulina, 1 cup almond milk, 1 cup frozen mango, dairy-free chocolate & veggie jelly worms
Instructions ▷▷▷ Melt chocolate & flick inside mason jar. Blend together bananas, ice, spirulina, almond milk & frozen mango. Pour smoothie inside mason jar & decorate with jelly worms.
Ingredients ▷▷▷ veggie jelly crystals, water & veggie jelly worms
Instructions ▷▷▷ Boil water, mix with veggie jelly crystals and stir until all dissolved. Put veggie worms in shot glasses & fill with jelly mixture. Leave to cool for 1 hour.
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I hope you guys enjoyed this post and be sure to let me know if you make any of these spooky halloween treats as I’d love to see pics! lf you’d like to watch my vlog of making these treats, you can check that out here:
Hey everyone!
After just over two weeks travelling around the USA, I am now back in the UK and am finally getting back to my normal routine after losing almost a week to jet lag, seriously. I’d like to say that was an exaggeration but unfortunately it isn’t; for almost an entire week I was practically nocturnal – going to bed at 6am and waking up at 3pm!!
Anyway, now that I’m back home (and awake in daylight hours!) I’ve been reminiscing about all of the fun things that we did and all of the delicious vegan food we ate, and there certainly was a lot of it. We started our trip in LA, then we headed to San Francisco, then to San Diego and finally Las Vegas! I loved every one of these cities in a different way and all of them had an amazing vegan food scene (we’re talking everything from deliciously healthy cafes to late night pizza deliveries).
As always, I wanted to take you all along with me as much as possible, so I vlogged our entire trip, posted restaurant reviews, and also instagramed a lot of our #veganfoodporn! However, there were also lots of eateries we ate at that I didn’t get a chance to share with you guys, so I thought I’d create this blog post to collate all of my vlogs and restaurant reviews from our trip, as well as adding in some of the other eateries we loved.
If you guys are from the US/travelling to the US/just curious about what the US has to offer, then I hope you find this post useful :).
ps – if you have a favourite vegan friendly eatery in any of these locations, be sure to comment it down below!
Blog posts ▷▷▷ Fala Bar
Other vegan friendly eateries we visited ▷▷▷ Johnny Rockets, Ben & Jerry’s, Jamba Juice, Doomies, Superfood Cafe, Satdha, Fresh Brothers, Taco Bell & Seed Kitchen
LA VLOG #1 ▷▷▷
LA VLOG #2 ▷▷▷
LA VLOG #3 ▷▷▷
Blog posts ▷▷▷ Seed and Salt
Other vegan friendly eateries we visited ▷▷▷ Loving Hut & Patxis Pizza
SAN FRANCISCO VLOG ▷▷▷
Blog posts ▷▷▷ Amardeen Cafe, Kindred & Lean and Green Cafe
Other vegan friendly eateries we visited ▷▷▷ Craft Pizza Company
SAN DIEGO VLOG ▷▷▷
Vegan friendly eateries we visited ▷▷▷ Wynn Buffet, Slice of Vegas & Violette’s vegan
LAS VEGAS VLOG ▷▷▷
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Which place would you guys most like to visit?
My final San Diego eatery post is about an awesome little cafe we ate at near La Jolla Cove:
Lean and Green Cafe uses fresh, locally sourced, organic ingredients and has lots of vegan options, so we were really excited to check it out.
At home I usually make smoothies for breakfast every day and I really missed that whilst travelling; so, I was really happy to find somewhere that made smoothies with fresh, organic fruit. I ordered the Peach Dream – made of peach nectar, mangos, bananas and raspberries – and Matt had the Strawberry Bliss – made of apple juice, strawberries and bananas. They were both so refreshing and delicious and definitely the healthy, goodness we needed.
ps – I also love that Lean and Green Cafe use Greenware smoothie cups which are made entirely from plants – how awesome is that?!
Lean and Green Cafe offer a great variety of vegan options including salads, wraps and rice bowls; however, Matt and I both decided to go for one of the freshly made wraps. I ordered the Vegan Delight made up of a mix of delicious veggies, spinach and avocado; and Matt decided to order a make your own veggie wrap. He went for a bit of a weird combo: sun-dried tomatoes, beans, tofu, avocado, mushrooms & spinach but it totally worked and was actually really good!
If you’re looking for filling, nutritious, organic vegan food in San Diego, be sure to head to Lean and Green Cafe. They currently have 2 locations in San Diego: La Jolla and Sorrento Valley; however, we chatted to the Cafe’s lovely owner during our visit and he told us about some exciting new franchising opportunities meaning that more Lean and Green Cafes may be popping up soon!
Today I’m back to tell you guys about another awesome restaurant that we found in San Diego:
Kindred is an cool and edgy bar/restaurant that serves unique cocktails and inventive vegan food, all whilst playing death-metal tunes (not in a super intense way but in a this place has majorly cool vibes way). The staff are all super friendly and helpful and the decor is on point – hello white marble tables!
Before we get into the food, let’s talk about the cocktails, as 2 pages of the 4 page menu are made up of Kindred’s huge variety of creative drinks, so it’s only fair that they get a special mention. Now, I don’t really drink that often and when I do I usually stick to the same cocktails (pina colada & porn star martini) so it was exciting to mix it up and try the Depth Dweller which is made up of Strawberry Infused Rum, Campari and Lime. It was super fruity and delicious and had just the right amount of kick.
To start off the meal, Matt ordered the Chargrilled Seitan Skewers which looked and tasted insanely like meat (and kinda freaked me out); but if like a lot of people you like the taste/texture of meat but also love animals then this would definitely be the perfect dish for you! Unfortunately, I didn’t manage to get any good pictures of this dish -mood lighting + an iPhone camera doesn’t exactly make for the best photography – but don’t worry there are plenty of mouth-watering food photos coming up.
For main I had the Seared Cauliflower Steak. The cauliflower ‘steak’ was served with orange squash puree, tahini beets, little puff pastries and steak sauce. This creative combination made this one of the most gourmet style vegan dishes I’ve ever eaten and it was absolutely delicious.
Matt ordered the Salt & Vinegar Seared Gardein, which was basically a super fancy and delicious vegan ‘fish’ style dish. It was topped with crispy battered onion rings that were absolutely amazing and complemented the ‘fish’ and tartar sauce perfectly!
Even though we were both so full, when we saw the Cookie Dough Truffles on the dessert menu we knew we could make a little more room and it was so worth it as they were my favourite part of the meal!
Kindred is such a fun place with great vibes, so if you’re in the San Diego area and fancy a great drink and/or some delicious vegan food then be sure to check it out!
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