So what DO you eat?

A silly song which answers the perpetual question of the uninitiated when they learn you are a vegan.

As found on Earth Muffin.

Happy Friday!

~ Quirky Vegan

The hardest thing about being vegan

Greetings fellow travellers,

So you’ve done it, you’ve come over to the dark side. You’ve said goodbye to animal products, you wear pleather, and now you’re fully signed up to vegan life.

Is there a special handshake or something? An initiation ceremony? A doctrine?

Mmmm, no. You might like to join the Vegan Sociey or an animal advocacy organisation [...]

Mystery Ingredient Monday #2

Greetings fellow travellers,

Today’s Mystery Ingredient Monday is brought to you by:

Nutritional Yeast Flakes

Animal vegetable or mineral? These fall into the vegetable category and are therefore vegan. Hooray!

What are they used in? You can sprinkle nutritional yeast flakes into soup or on top of veggie bolognaise for a cheesy, nutty taste.

What kind of nutritional value do [...]

Flexivoracious Times

Greetings fellow travellers,

An intriguing commentary popped up in the Times Online this week, in an article called I’ve no beef with part time vegetarians. Ultimately each person much decide what is acceptable for themself, but the entire article for me folded on the following statement:

A much-neglected downside of not eating meat is the presumptuousness and [...]

Do you know what a vegan is?

Greetings fellow travellers,

I saw this on My Face is on Fire and it gave me a good old chuckle. A vegan? Some kind of alien?!

Enjoy!

~ Quirky Vegan

P.S. Do you know what a vegan is? Click here for the answer!

Why I don’t do dairy

Dairy cows: a free range animal?

Greetings fellow travellers,

Here I share a few thoughts on the dairy industry and why I choose not to support the mistreatment of animals inherent within.

“I don’t get what’s wrong with milk and dairy products,” the Pole Dance said to me, “I mean, I understand why you don’t want to [...]

Mystery Ingredient Monday #1

Greetings fellow travellers,

In the first of a new series, I’m going to share with you some of the mystery ingredients which find their way into food and other consumer products and have a look at whether they are animal, vegetable or mineral. For animal products which vegans avoid, alternatives will be given.

Today’s Mystery Ingredient Monday [...]

Why am I a vegan?

Greetings Fellow Travellers,

I choose to follow a vegan lifestyle because I think that it is the right thing to do. It is an ethical and practical choice, and makes sense to me. I feel that this way of life is a way of practising what I preach (not that I preach, oh no).

For [...]

What is a Vegan?

Greetings fellow travellers,

I went out to dinner the other day with a guy from work. Yes it was a date. No, it’s not serious, now stop being so nosy!  On the way there a seagull pooped on my head which was kind of embarassing, but that’s just the kind of thing that happens when you’re a [...]

North East Vegan Gathering

Alnwick Castle

Greetings fellow travellers,

So what is the collective noun for a group of Vegans? I’d never had to wonder about this question before as I had never come across so many in one place as I did at the North East Vegan Gathering held up in Morpeth, Northumberland this April.

I found out [...]