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.
Vegan Life magazine enters another year, and this first issue for 2016 is full of interesting features and recipes. My Australian readers may be interested to hear of a new, fully vegan 'fish' and chip shop in Sydney - Bliss and Chips on King Street. If anyone visits, please let me know how it is!
Wherever you live, you can enjoy the beautiful apple and cinnamon chia pudding featured on the cover of the magazine. I have never got particularly into chia puddings, but this one really appeals.
As always, I love reading about new vegan products and 'accidentally vegan' products. I have tried the Yushoi snowpea crisps pictured below and can recommend them.
I've also tried the Mr Kipling apple and blackcurrant pies and Alpen jaffa cake bars, but wasn't aware of the vegan waffle cones available from Cornets.
I also enjoyed reading about breakfast options available in different UK chain stores. It's easy to get soya milk drinks here so that was hardly novel news, but I didn't realise the chains made porridge with soya milk, or that Pret a Manger had dairy-free coconut yoghurt and vegan giant pretzels.
I also hadn't realised just how many beauty products aren't vegan friendly, until I read the piece listing common non-vegan ingredients which typically come from dead animals. In addition to those listed in the screenshot below (animal hair [which granted is quite obvious!], carmine, collagen and elastin), other culprits include glycerine, lanolin, guanine, keratin, squaline, shellac and shearic acid.
On a brighter note, Guinness lovers may take job from the news that Guinness will soon be vegan...so you may have fewer beauty products to choose from, but more alcohol!
I thought the arguments in the 'no' case were feeble and not worthy of publication, but as my views line up quite nicely with the 'yes' side, I won't get on a soap box here.
What trivia or new products are you enjoying this month?
I can't believe there is a vegan fish and chip shop! wow, I wish I had of known when I was in Sydney!!
ReplyDeleteI kind of like the Chia Puddings, This one looks pretty good!
Thanks for sharing
Julie Carlyle
Gourmet Getaways
Thanks Julie - and next time you're in Sydney you know where to go!
DeleteSounds like you hit the jakpot with this magazine, Kari! I haven't been able to warm up to Chia yet but, as you say, that pudding does look yummy! Maybe I should reconsider:)
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing, Kari...
I know what you mean about chia - I like it, but in pudding form I've always been wary. Maybe this pudding will convert both of us!
Deletesounds like a really interesting issue - I got a giggle at the thought of all those vegans drinking lots of guiness and not having any skincare available and what they would look like - seriously it is sad to hear how much the cosmetics industry uses animal products. And the vaccination debate is depressing - there was an outbreak of chicken pox in Melbourne recently and then stories of chicken pox parties where families got together with someone with chickenpox to expose their kids to it instead of vaccination. So so wrong on so many levels especially when you meet a kid with low immunity who has to try and avoid lots of kids because they are so vulnerable!
ReplyDeleteOh, for goodness sake! That is a new low. It is those children with low immunity or the ones too young to be vaccinated that really suffer - people don't seem to grasp that!
DeleteYou made me smile in turn at the idea of drunk vegans with no make up ;)
That chia pudding looks heavenly! I think it's a rule that fresh figs automatically make anything gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteYou're right! They really do.
DeleteThe vegan magazine is beautifully presented and I wouldn't mind one of the chia puddings. I didn't know Guinness was going vegan! I do try to buy cruelty-free cosmetics. I know the immunisation debate is raging but sadly, I nursed a teenage girl who had had an allergic reaction to the MMR vaccine and been left almost totally brain dead. There wasn't a thing she could do for herself and she had to live in a 24-hour care facility. To make the story even more tragic, her parents were unable to have children and so they adopted her. She was perfectly well and normal and then she was immunised and what a tragic outcome. They would visit her every Sunday. I know it's a rare situation but Louise and her parents' situation is one I've never been able to forget xx
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment Charlie - those are the stories that I do understand being offputting, and of course if you have known someone first hand with an adverse reaction, the risks will be that much more present. Vaccines are certainly not without risks, it is reasonable consideration of them that I wish people could do.
DeleteI rather like chia puddings - this one looks delish.
ReplyDeleteI think so too :-)
DeleteInteresting magazine. Maybe you already know this, but reading your comment about the animal ingredients in products... did you know that some foods are made with human products too...? Like L-cysteine... (commonly found in breads, pizza crusts, and so on)... o.O
ReplyDeleteNo, I did not!! How incredibly disconcerting. Thanks for alerting me :S
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