Make Your Own Homemade Chips (3 ingredients!)
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These baked French fries (Simple Vegan Blog) only need Russet potatoes, and a little salt and olive oil.
Avoid chips for young children or people with risk of choking. Read more on food safety for people and pets.
The ‘chip industry’ is absolutely huge. But fatty chips (okay as a treat) are not good for your heart (or waistline!) and deep-fat fryers are England’s main cause of kitchen fires.
Most chip shops fry in palm oil (not good news for orangutans or food miles) and many fast food restaurants (like KFC) fry their chips in chicken fat.
But there is no point saying ‘eat hummus with carrot sticks instead’. Because with 10,500 chippies in the UK (serving a combined 382 million servings of chips a year), that’s even before the billion-pound market for frozen chips in supermarkets and corner stores, chips are obviously not going away!
So just make your own! Good spuds to use are Maris Piper or King Edward. If you like salt, use natural sea salt, as it’s sustainably-harvested and adds a little iodine (unlike cakey table salt).
Swap Your Chip Pan for an Air Fryer
Air-fryers are great. Treat yourself to a new safe one from Argos or a supermarket, if you like the taste of fried food. You can replicate nearly everything with little or no oil, use them to cook ready-meals for less cost, and they are of course great to make homemade chips.
Air-fryer sweet potato fries (Broke Bank Vegan) are seasoned with granulated garlic and smoked paprika.
It’s UK law for shops that sell electric appliances to take old ones back for recycling. So take your greasy old fat fryer, and replace it with a nice new air-fryer.
Where to Buy Good Frozen Chips
If you’re going to keep buying ready-made frozen chips, swap to Strong Roots Proper Chips, sold in most supermarkets. Made with potatoes and sunflower oil, there are also skinny chips, sweet potato fries, crispy crinkle fries and root vegetable fries.
Recycle packaging at supermarket bag bins (they print the carbon footprint of all packaging).
The No Catch Co (Brighton) is the first vegan fish and chippy in England!
Chips are no longer wrapped in newspaper, due to food regulations. And if you visiting a normal fish and chip shop, it’s not good to buy ‘fish leftovers for cats’, as most are too fatty, and have hidden bones.
Quick Vegan ‘Fish and Chips’
Just serve your homemade chips with Moving Mountains Fishless Fillets (cheap to buy, and tastes just like real fish). Made with real ingredients too!
Serve with canned mushy peas, and it’s a meal fit for purpose! Always pop the lid inside opened cans before recycling (or pop ring-pulls back over the hole) to stop wildlife getting trapped.
