Veganuary‘s over and maybe you took part and maybe you didn’t. Maybe you thought, ‘Pah, I ain’t jumping on no bandwagon. Especially one that involves not eating cheese.’ Or maybe you did take part but struggled in the supermarket trying to decipher what was vegan and what wasn’t and would have quite happily lived on non-dairy Ben & Jerry’s for the month of January had it not cost five pound fucking fifty pee a tub.
It’s easy enough to find vegan recipes to cook for yourself at home as there are billions of vegan cookbooks to buy and billions of vegan food blogs to browse but what about the other vegany stuff? The ‘why should I be vegan’ stuff and the ‘eating out in restaurants and at friends’ houses’ stuff and the ‘what is B12 and why do I need it’ stuff? All this stuff is enough to make you say ‘stuff it’ (or at least it would if it were still the 70s and an age when people still said things like ‘stuff it’ instead of ‘bollocks to that’ or whatever the equivalent is in young-person speak).
This is where How to go Vegan comes in. It bridges that gap between wanting to go vegan and actually being vegan, because being vegan doesn’t just mean not eating animals or their bodily fluids, i.e. it’s not just a diet but a lifestyle. Of course, if you just want to be a dietary vegan, that’s fine too. I’m not any kind of vegan so you’ll find no judginess here. It’s not compulsory to wear a t-shirt proclaiming your vegan-ness or get a big V tattooed on you like some vegans do either (why they do this, I do not know and it’s unfortunately not covered in this book so you’ll have to ask a t-shirted, tattooed vegan – just go to any vegan festival and you’ll bump into dozens of them).
It’s a neat little compact hard-backed book that will sit well on your shelf with your vegan cookbooks (or any other books really).
How to go Vegan covers:
- Why Try Vegan?
- For animals
- For the environment
- Sustainability and world hunger
- For personal health
- For global health
- For the adventure
- How to go Vegan
- Vegan at home
- Vegan out in the world
- Nutrition in a nutshell
- Vegan myths
- Meal plans
- Recipes to get you started
- The big questions
- Final thoughts
How to go Vegan is published by Hodder & Stoughton and is available at Amazon.
Giveaway – Win a copy of How to go Vegan
I’ve got one copy of How to go Vegan to giveaway. All you need to do is enter via the Rafflecopter widget below. Good luck!
58 comments
If this book can tell me if I can vegan, I’m up so for it. Looks like a nice book too. Make me vegan, nice book.
Would love to win – try and have a few vegan meals every week – need to learn more x
it sounds like an interesting read could do with learning more
I hope it has some truly unique recipes rather than the usual fare.
It would be nice to read about the truth behind veganism .
I am struggling to give up cheese! but this book might help me with that final push it looks great! x
I recently did a vegan cookery course with my husband and we had a fabulous time. The dishes we cooked were both easy and delicious, it certainly opened our eyes.
At last a book that tells you the how and why. I need this to convince me to ditch the bacon sarnies !!
This is the book my daughter and I need! a great reference book
I’d enjoy reading this to find out more. I have been gradually making changes heading towards veganism. I just need that final push, but my hubby needs a little more motivation. This would help lots.
I would like to be informed a little more about the subject before I took the leap,
Count me in please. I am already vegan but I always like to have information to give to friends and colleagues when they ask me about veganism
With my daughter being vegan, it would make it a lot easier to prepare meals and such for us both if I managed to go vegan too.
I would really love to try some new vegan recipes.
I’m already vegan but need all the help I cam get to help me improve, so this would be great to win
We are already completely veggie with a lot of our food being vegan. This sounds like the kind of book that holds those last little pieces of information I need to make a totally vegan transition.
I’d love to at least try to eat a more vegan diet.
Oh this would be fab! I’d give it to my friend who is trying to go vegan. I’m vegan myself, but sure there’s more I could learn too!
would be a great help with growing veg at the moment Iam not very good at it so ANY help at all would be great
I was vegetarian for many years but at the moment I just try to eat whole foods. I am curious about the vegan diet, as of course it is very much the in thing atm, so it would be interesting to give it a try and find out more about it which hopefully this book helps with!
would be a great help with growing veg at the moment Iam not very good at it so ANY help at all would be great thank you
This would be wonderful, love to read / learn more about vegan lifestyle
This is a really useful guide of how to eat a Vegan diet
This will be interesting. I’ve been veggie at various times of my life but cooking vegan for kids sounds daunting – sensible, practical inspiration would help
What a handy book, I recently turned vegan so I would find this very useful, thanks.
Would LOVE to win this great book: I have been happily vegan for years, but a very good friend of mine isn’t and she’s showing a keen interest, so if I won I’d be very happy to give the book to her
Going to the vegan live in London soon so this book will follow suit for me
I’m vegetarian and have dabbled with veganism over the years but learning more would maybe help me take the final plunge!
I really want to become a full time vegan, count me in please xx
Sounds like a really good read to see how achievable veganism is nowadays. I’d love to know more about it.
I have not tried many vegan recipes but I am interested in trying out a few
I would love to win to gift this book to my daughter who is thinking about going Vegan and a little confused about what she should do to begin being a vegan.
sounds very good would love to learn more
This looks great, I love cooking and I have been trying more vegan meals lately
I’ve been a vegetarian for 19 years now and I’ve tried the odd vegan week, but I’ve struggled to do it long term. This book would vlbe a great help.
Honestly, been considering going vegan for a while now, especially since becoming a mother.
I have been vegetarian for 25 years, thinking about taking the next step to veganism
It’s good to find a nice concise piece of information on veganism
We’re dairy free due to allergy, and trying to reduce our meat consumption, so I’m reading everything I can at the moment.
Did giggle at ‘ five pound fucking fifty pee a tub’… My thoughts exactly!
I did my first Veganuary this year and loved cooking up loads of fab new recipes, but slipped up a couple of times when eating out so this book would be a fab resource for the future. I plan to continue veganing 🙂
Would love to try some nice vegan recipes
I’m really interested in Vegan cooking. Not sure I could completely commit to the lifestyle but definitley want to introduce more Vegan meals into our lives.
I love eating the vegan choices when I go out for a meal. I’d love totrycooking vegan athome
This looks like a fabulous book, im interested in some new recipies and ideas so many thanks….
this sounds like a great read id love to go fully vegan but dont know where to start!
It will help me as a fledgling vegan to embrace veganism
Looks like a useful go-to book, especially for someone who’s vegan-curious.
Would love this as always looking for new vegan recipes
Thank you for the chance to win. I follow a vegetarian diet that is verging on vegan – this would be a great extra push to get me there.
I would love to go Vegan, but unfortunately I love cheese too much even though I’m lactose intolerant. Talk about a love/hate relationship right? How did you find making the transition to vegan? Would really love to win this book to help me along my way.
I did veganuary and was surprised how easy it was! I’m trying my best to continue being vegan, but have had eggs this month
l eat mainly vegetarian food and l am now more inquisitive about the vegan life style
The Vegan lifestyle is very popular and I can see its advantages – however I do not get the reason for not eating eggs! my sister has free range chickens that wander her 2 acre garden in pure enjoyment for the whole of their natural lives. When they lay an egg they walk off abandoning the eggs. Then we collect them or if we are not quick enough the Jackdaws who live in the false chimneys of the cottage have a feast. Surely if they are unfertilised eggs it is not a problem is it to eat them?
I’ve tried a few vegan recipes but need some more inspiration, this book looks great!
I would like to know a few more vegan recipes and this book would definitely help!
I’ve been vegetarian for years but struggling to make the transition to vegan. This would really help.
I’d love to learn some vegan recipes and introduce a larger variety of foods into my diet, great giveaway!
Looks like an excellent read with plenty of advice and know how