The Bury Black (vegan) Pudding (no palm oil)
Black pudding is a popular item on menus for a full English breakfast. Most vegans and vegetarians likely don’t want it anyway. But if you want to try a vegan version of ‘blood sausage’, you can buy a version now from The Bury Black Pudding Company. Just slice and grill (keep leftovers chilled and use within a few days).
This brand has created a plant-based version using a mix of oats, barley and black beans, and susbtitutes blood with beetroot (far better!)
Keep vegan black pudding away from pets, due to onion and mushroom.
Suitable for freezing, but defrost before cooking and do not re-freeze. Recycle packaging at supermarket bag bins, if your kerbside does not recycle.
It’s always nice to support all-vegan companies. But for now, this is the only option on sale (that is also not free from palm oil). The alternative is to make your own (there is no vegan haggis on sale without palm oil, so again you’ll have to make your own).
Make your own vegan black pudding
This vegan black pudding recipe is quite simple, though it does have quite a lot of ingredients (including black beans, oats, barley and chesnut mushrooms). It uses activated charcoal powder for ‘inky blackness’ but you could leave it out.
Once cooked and slices, fry up to serve alongside potatoes and juicy tomatoes. Or as part of a vegan full English breakfast!
Why choose vegan black pudding?
Most pig meat is from factory farms. And in a country of 67 million people, there is not enough land for everyone to eat free-range meat. If pigs were not bred for the meat industry, fewer would be born. And remaining pigs could then live out their lives in peace (natural breeding would still occur, just not on the same as now).
Bacon and pork are also high in saturated fats, cholesterol and chemicals used to flavour them. Going hogless means you can enjoy these tasty meals, which are not just animal-kind but also far lower in fat and cholesterol-free. So you can eat more of them!
Why pigs are brilliant!
Pigs are such wonderful mothers, they sing to their piglets) are also very clean animals. They will build a nest and walk up to a mile to go to the toilet. They are so brainy, they are up there with dolphins and chimpanzees.
They have strong bonds and will sleep nose-to-nose with other pigs, and use their sensitive snouts to forage for food (as eyes are on the sides of their heads, they have poor depth perception though can see a 310 panoramic view).
Pigs can’t sweat, which is why they roll in mud. Only domestic pigs have curly tails! And in the wild, pigs can live to be up to 20 years old
