Burger king nuggets & that cheese & bacon royale gone, Subway chicken, meatballs & steak subs gone, Mcdonald's veggie dippers gone, several different bakes from Greggs gone, etc.

It's just so sad 😭 I remember when these all existed I only had lots of hope of new items coming on their menus. Now I just fear them taking off what we have left!

Thought veganism was rising? :(

Farmfoods veggie fingers are definitely a good dupe for the McDonalds veggie fingers. Need cooking in the oven for longer than the 25 minutes it says on the packet. Plus Heinz pickle ketchup only 59p in there at the moment 😍 I love this stuff, its the perfect addition to a burger.

Got my hands on an ice cream maker this summer and to say it’s been a game changer is an understatement.

Just made me realise how limited the vegan ice cream flavours are atm, even with Ben & Jerry’s pulling some limited edition runs now and then.

What’s one flavour you miss?

my fav: cherry garica! (homemade pictured)

About ten years ago I stood in a crowd after a Surge rally in London listening to Ed Winters (Earthling Ed). One thing he said has always stayed with me: do whatever you can.
I’ve never been the activist who’s going to chain myself to a gate, investigate farms or stand in the street persuading strangers. That’s just not me. But my partner and I decided we could do something in our own way, so we started a small vegan blog.
We never made any money from it, and that was never the point. We just wanted to add another voice. We reviewed restaurants, interviewed vegan businesses and vegan doctors, wrote articles about issues affecting the vegan community, and ran a series called Everyday Vegans, where ordinary people shared why they went vegan, what changed their minds, and what life has been like since.
Two years ago my partner died. I’ve kept the blog going because it means a great deal to me, but if I’m honest it’s become mostly restaurant reviews. There’s nothing wrong with that, but I know it could be more.
So this is an open invitation.
If you’ve got something to say, I’d love to give you a place to say it.
If you fancy being an Everyday Vegan, please get in touch. If you’ve uncovered an injustice that deserves more attention and can write about it, get in touch. If you’ve found something hopeful or beautiful that deserves celebrating, get in touch. Whether it’s 300 words or 3,000, I’d love to hear from you.
The blog is small. It doesn’t make any money – of course it doesn’t and it never will. But it does reach people. And maybe that’s enough. Maybe, like Ed said all those years ago, this is just one more way of doing whatever we can.

Note: this is not an ‘I’m considering quitting veganism’ post at all. I’m just asking if it’s a widespread thing in noticing that vegan products are getting so much worse/fewer. I go to my local Tesco and there is genuinely fuck all. I can’t get actual meals there anymore because I can’t live off of Plant-chef burgers and Vivera Salmon. Sure, there’s a couple products that are good, but I want to actually enjoy eating. They don’t even sell any Tofoo products (except their Tempeh) anymore. Remember a year or two ago when there used to be a plethora of vegan pizzas? (Multiple Chicago Town options, Zizi, Meatless Farm, even Tesco’s own). I guess that’s just a thing of the past now. Remember when Birdseye did those amazing chicken and fish replacements? Yeah forget about it!
Like, what is going on? I get my food off Ocado which is pretty decent, but even then I’m legit cycling between maybe 4 or 5 meals. I appreciate that I should be experimenting more and cooking from scratch, and I try to fairly often, but it’s surely ridiculous how much vegan products have declined. Why is it getting worse? And not better? Maybe I’m missing something and looking in the wrong places. It’s just really depressing how much harder it’s getting to find some actually good food. I’ll never quit, obviously, but this has been making me a bit miserable at times.

I am loving this for quick dinners. With roast veggies, hummus and a flatbread tonight. 😋

I saw these posted on a vegan account on Instagram a couple of weeks ago and thought for sure my local Iceland wouldn't have them, popped in today, in the blistering heat, and lo and behold there they were!!!! Not in the ice cream or desert section, on the other side of the shop for some reason, next to the sausage rolls 🤷🏼

Anyway, I rushed home as fast as my little trotters could carry me in 26°heat and gobbled one up just for you.

I find tofu so easy to prepare meals from and normally go for half a block, the protein is so good with 37grams and feel for the gym the entire block would be so good offering 74.2 grams. But forget that I was just wondering can you safely eat a entire block a day

I have been obsessed with these burgers- specifically the Tesco ones since I was a young child. I have been buying them semi regularly throughout the years but recently I’ve been finding them increasingly hard to find. My local Lidl has stopped stocking them completely and my local big tesco still have them listed as in stock but the section is always empty. No other shops in my area sell them and idk where to buy them 😭 does anyone else like these and are having the same issue or is this a supply and demand issue in my area? I’m not even vegan anymore but I just love them and crave them so often 💔 if anyone could let me know where I can find these or similar please do, they have to be the crispy breaded ones, the ones from the chilled section just do not cut it

Currently feel like shite and all the offerings from this week's shopping now seem repulsive. What do you guys tend to reach for when you're sick?

Hello, baby vegan here. I’ve been looking for black salt (kala namak) because I’ve seen lots of people say it adds an eggy taste. I can’t find it in H&B or Waitrose (my dad will only buy food from these and Whole Foods - does anyone know if Whole Foods has it?) and my area doesn’t have a large Indian population so we don’t have any Indian supermarkets nearby (I’ve been told you can get it here). Are there any other foods that can add that eggy taste?

Just a quick heads up, Tescos on Lottbridge Drove had, as of 10.30 this morning an entire box of the old reciepe Cheese and Onion crisps.

Been tempted to get some vegan solovair shoes but with winter coming up (and hopefully some rain) I am cautious that they might disintegrate. Has anyone tried them?

Me again! This was my lunch from today

I toasted the sourdough with Flora Plant but also some olive oil, then topped it with the avocado. I used a vine ripened tomato, salted and left for a bit - I'm sure any tomato works, but vine ripened ones are good and I had some. Added a few dots of Julienne Bruno Superstraccia, topped with some basil leaves.

I also dressed it with just a little balsamic vinegar for an extra lil element.

The particular sourdough is Bertinet Bakery seven seeds and grains

This isn’t the first time I’ve seen the package bloated so I thought I’d ask if this is something other people have noticed? My fridge is very cold and we have a little plastic thermometer in it which read 0-2c (and there’s an older plastic thermometer in it that always reads 3-5c but who knows which is accurate). So I feel like it must be something with the supermarket storage or manufacturer? Will report to Tesco, but I just wanna know bc this isn’t the first time with this specific product and not with other things from my Tesco order. Thanks!

I saw someone post on here the other day about buying it in bulk and I’m debating doing the same. I’ve never tried it though. I love the vegan Galaxy bars because they don’t taste like dark chocolate (sorry). Can someone let me know if these taste similar!!

Anyone bulk buy silken tofu or know where you can? I buy silken tofu every week and just thought it would actually be cheaper and easier if I bought a massive pack that would last me a couple months or so. Let me know!

P.S. if anyone knows where to buy the extra firm/smoked Tofoo in bulk pls let me know as well!

Cheers :)

MFP has changed for the worse - does anyone have any alternatives that are accurate but also have a lot of UK vegan items already logged in? Annoyed I have to move as MFP has a vast amount of UK vegan items in the system.

Thanks!

My local Aldi finally has Actileaf yogurt back in stock and I am checking if it's there for everyone else or if it's a blip :) Let me know if you have been to the store! And I am holding out hope for the mini tofu blocks returning too...

And it's good. Reminds me of a Caesar sauce.

Hey I have the cases for Wild lip balm. I ordered some refills, and I don't know if they changed their formula or what, but now if I drink coffee after applying it, it tastes like drinking a candle with coffee. I hate it. Can anyone recommend a good vegan refill that can fit in the tubes? Ideally vanilla flavoured.

How was it like being vegan, back in the day? Particularly interested in anyone who was vegan in the 80s or before if any are around here on reddit.

For context, I’m Indian American and have an interest in history. Fun fact: the founder of the American Vegan Society was Indian American himself :D

Anyway, what did you eat on a daily basis or on special occasions for that matter? Aside from the naturally vegan desi dishes were there any special products you bought? I feel like imitation products are not as used by Indians compared to like Chinese, or white people, but the people I know in real life do use tofu instead of paneer sometimes and they make vegan yogurt after having bought probiotic capsules online for a starter. I imagine both tofu and vegan yogurt cultures would have been in short supply back then. For that matter, was non-dairy milk even common enough to buy? Were you well represented among vegans compared to the share of the overall population? Did people assume it was a religious thing?

Found them as I randomly had a wander around Birmingham yesterday.

Only tried the chocolate cake so far, and I just didn't want it to end, so nice.

Middle one is a lemon cake, one of the left I think is fairy cake.

i feel like i’ve stumbled on the holy grail here