Chicken pie is a real favourite comfort food, but those on sale are nearly always made with factory-farmed chicken (unless you are a on very expensive budget) and yet it’s perfectly possible to make a lovely chickenless pie, from everyday ingredients. Try this vegan chicken pot pie from this book. Use vegan butters with no palm…
eats
switch over to natural sea salt
Dorset Sea Salt Salt is used to improve the taste and texture of vegetables and to salt water for pasta (in Italy, cooking pasta without salt is called ‘silly pasta!) It’s also used to make bread (keep fresh dough away from pets). And of course to add to your bag of chips. Salt is simply…
budget-friendly plant-based recipes
In these austere times, it’s important to keep good food affordable for everyone. Although there are lots of gourmet vegan chefs and recipes, they are no good for the average person if you have to visit swanky health stores or order ingredients online, in order to make them. The good news is that if you…
donate apples (get free cider!)
Apples are England’s most wasted fruit, with 2.5 million apples going to waste each year (Hawkes’ two degrees of apple theory says that ‘everyone knows someone who has an apple tree not being harvested). So donating unwanted apples to make cider, seems like a great idea! Apples donated must be without chemical sprays and handpicked…