I receive complimentary digital copies of Vegan Life, which allows me to post reviews with screenshots included. My reflections on the magazine are entirely my own.
Having recently bought Choc Shot chocolate syrup for the first time, I was delighted to spot an orange spice flavour in the 'What's New' section of the magazine (top right). I think my next syrup purchase may veer across to orange territory. Before too long, I may even be able to drizzle it on vegan Ben & Jerry's ice cream (below). I had heard rumours of a vegan B&J product but Vegan Life suggests the rumours may be true. Exciting times!
While we're talking about under-nutrition, I don't think it's a secret that I enjoy vegan junk food sometimes and 'bonus' vegan items especially so. There is a real thrill to finding an unexpectedly vegan item. The latest product to catch my eye, as featured below, is Aldi dark chocolate digestive biscuits (cookies to Americans). I've long been annoyed by dark chocolate digestives containing milk (the digestive biscuits themselves often don't), and by Aldi's tendency to add milk powder to a huge number of their own brand products. I welcome the change!
Now that we have scope for a garden, I was very interested in the article on regrowing vegetables. I know some of my regular readers are experts on this already. I was delighted to hear that carrot tops can be placed in water to continue sprouting leaves, perfect for adding to salads, and that if you keep the bottom of a lettuce head and place it in water, it will also (apparently) continue to grow.
If you wanted some attractive crockery to eat your salad off, the forest friends plates and mugs by Magpie look beautiful. I hadn't fully realised (embarrassing confession coming up) what 'bone china' meant and am a bit horrified to make the connection with bone retrospectively. I don't think we have any bone china anyway, but this range appeals to me for the cute animals as much as the animal-friendly nature of the items.
So there we have it, the latest magazine and my personal highlights therein. Now that my commuting time is longer, digital magazines like this are particularly enjoyable. I hope you enjoyed the aspects shared!
What are you reading this week?
On a more serious note, the magazine featured a brief story on parents facing charges for their malnourished, vegan-fed baby. The article appropriately pointed out that many parents raise healthy vegan children and that neglect and malnourishment aren't limited to vegan parents. At the same time, I think it does highlight that we need to be more vigilant than usual in ensuring adequate nutrition if we cut food groups from our diets. This is particularly true if feeding children. I firmly believe you can be very healthy as a vegan and would like to think I'm testament to that. However, I'm mindful of getting vitamin B12 and iron, I personally wouldn't opt for a fully vegan diet for a young child (although respect those who make that choice).
While we're talking about under-nutrition, I don't think it's a secret that I enjoy vegan junk food sometimes and 'bonus' vegan items especially so. There is a real thrill to finding an unexpectedly vegan item. The latest product to catch my eye, as featured below, is Aldi dark chocolate digestive biscuits (cookies to Americans). I've long been annoyed by dark chocolate digestives containing milk (the digestive biscuits themselves often don't), and by Aldi's tendency to add milk powder to a huge number of their own brand products. I welcome the change!
Now that we have scope for a garden, I was very interested in the article on regrowing vegetables. I know some of my regular readers are experts on this already. I was delighted to hear that carrot tops can be placed in water to continue sprouting leaves, perfect for adding to salads, and that if you keep the bottom of a lettuce head and place it in water, it will also (apparently) continue to grow.
If you wanted some attractive crockery to eat your salad off, the forest friends plates and mugs by Magpie look beautiful. I hadn't fully realised (embarrassing confession coming up) what 'bone china' meant and am a bit horrified to make the connection with bone retrospectively. I don't think we have any bone china anyway, but this range appeals to me for the cute animals as much as the animal-friendly nature of the items.
So there we have it, the latest magazine and my personal highlights therein. Now that my commuting time is longer, digital magazines like this are particularly enjoyable. I hope you enjoyed the aspects shared!
What are you reading this week?
Some interesting stuff there - I shared your ignorance about bone china - and also share your love of the designs on the magpie crockery. I admire those who bring up their kids vegan but it does seem a lot harder than being vegetarian (and even doing that brings such odd reactions sometimes and makes me feel the need to proove she is healthy at others). Glad to hear you can enjoy chocolate digestives - I am very fond of them too though rarely eat them.
ReplyDeleteI haven't actually picked up a pack of the chocolate digestives yet, but I am looking forward to going past an Aldi so I can do so :)
DeleteThe tofu on that cover looks amazing. I really need to start experimenting with tofu more, rather than just cooking it the plain way I usually do.
ReplyDeleteIt is definitely an ingredient with lots of possibilities!
DeleteI have many 'intended' posts as well. Something always seems to get in the way to them being written. I do love the look of the magazine and I think it's great there are magazines for vegans so they can find out about all the new products. It is very sad to hear that a poor child was malnourished. I recently heard of a vegan couple who fed their cat a vegan diet and it nearly died. It was just rescued in time. Of course, most vegans are like you and completely sensible so it's a shame there are a few who become so extreme they risk the health of those they enforce down the same road. As you know, we're not vegan but my son is so thin and does so much exercise that every day I'm very conscious of what he's eating and what I'm cooking and serving. He's the only one in the family that gets dessert every night but mostly, it's just a big fruit salad - very vegan! xx
ReplyDeleteThat is terribly sad about the cat. I'm glad someone was able to intervene! And it sounds like at the moment Alfie can eat his dessert as well as Arabella's ;)
DeleteOhhhh the things I intend to write about and then just forget about/don't have time for. MANY. I think the article on vegan kids sounds interesting. Totally true that any kid can be malnourished no matter the diet, but I think vegans and vegetarians definitely have to be more cognizant about their kids' protein intake!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely, on the unwritten posts! And definitely on being sensible with vegan/veggie children too. I guess the flip side is many meat eating families won't do so well with sufficient vegetable intake, so I guess we could all benefit from being sufficiently aware with what we feed children.
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