Planet Veggie

I held a competition a couple of weeks ago, giving a reader the chance to win a copy of Vegan Cookbook: The Essential Guide . The winner – picked by an online random number generator – is Emzy Lemezma. Well done Emzy!

Veatable Savoury Snack Bars are a new chewy, savoury snack from Crendon Foods that you keep in the fridge, unlike most crunchy, sweet snack bars that you keep in the cupboard. They’re one of your 5-a-day, only 99 calories per bar, high in fibre, suitable for vegetarians (obviously, otherwise they wouldn’t be on this blog), [...]

  Vegan Cookbook – The Essential Guide by Isabel Hood is a new addition to the Need2Know range of books. Comprising seven chapters, the first two chapters cover an overview and background of veganism, along with a checklist of ingredients every well-stocked vegan store-cupboard should contain and a list of essential equipment. The next five [...]

Well done to Jamie for winning the limerick competition. I chose Jamie’s entry for a) the effort he put in; b) the lines He once threw a quiche (just missing his niece); and c) for using the word ‘agrarian’, that I had to go and look up in the dictionary. Here’s Jamie’s winning limerick(s). There [...]

I’ve got a voucher worth £3.49 that can be exchanged for an Innocent Veg Pot of your choice in any supermarket. All you have to do to win is post a limerick below and I’ll send the voucher to the composer of my favourite one. To start you off, here’s the first line (or you [...]

A few days ago I posted about Linda McCartney’s competition to find the UK’s tastiest meat-free dish. As most of the dishes on here are from recipes found either on websites or in my collection of vegetarian cookbooks, I didn’t think I had anything to enter. But going back through my posts, I found my [...]

Linda McCartney foods are launching ‘The Search for the UK’s Tastiest Meat-Free Dish’ and they would love for you to be involved. They’re inviting people across the country to help create the next Linda McCartney meal. So get creative and show the UK that meat-free doesn’t have to mean taste-free. Here’s how it works: 1. [...]

After asking on Twitter for a number between 1 and 71 (inclusive), the first reply was 34 and therefore Laura is the winner (sorry to numbers 55, 27, 46, 42 and 71; you just missed out). Well done, Laura! Email me your address and I’ll get the book in the post to you.

I don’t make a lot of cakes or cookies or things. This is obviously  because I’m a finely tuned athlete. Ok, it’s because if I did make cakes or cookies or things, I’d eat the whole lot in one sitting like the fat pig bloater I really am. But, if I did make a lot [...]

As promised, I put the names of all those who entered the competition into my pink straw hat and engaged the services of my able assistant (aka The Meat Eater) who put a shirt over his head to stop him peeking (he wanted Jill to win because she made more effort but I said that [...]