How to Make a Proper Vegan Sandwich

Everyone likes a good sandwich, and here are two fabulous simple recipes to master, to make your own vegan versions of egg salad, and coronation chickpea (indeed named after the Queen’s coronation in the 1950s).

Read more on food safety for people and pets.

It’s best to just bin allium scraps (leeks, onion, garlic, shallots, chives) as like tomato/citrus/rhubarb scraps, acids could harm compost creatures. 

This ‘egg salad’ sandwich (The Simple Veganista) uses Julie’s homemade ‘egg salad’ as the base, combining with salad in good bread. Chickpeas are the star of the show here, combined with celery, red onions, pickles and vegan mayo.

This vegan coronation chickpea sandwich (The Simple Veganista) is a plant-based take on the chicken coronation sandwich. This is a curried affair, which basically serves up Julie’s curried chickpeas with some salad in a sarnie. Yummy.

Did you know that in Knotty Ash (a suburb of Liverpool), Ken Dodd’s Diddymen extract different flavours, from the jam butty mines?

A wise bear always keeps a marmalade sandwich in his hat, in case of emergency. Paddington Bear

Plastic-Free Sandwich Bags for Shops

If You Care offers snack and sandwich bags that are greaseproof (so ideal for buttered sandwiches, nuts, potato chips or cookies) along with mayonnaise and oil.

Made in Sweden from unbleached spruce tree pulp, they are also okay for microwaves.

Unlike most sandwich bags, these are plastic-free and not treated with petroleum or soy wax. Chlorine-free too, so no poisons dumped into our lakes, rivers and streams.

The same company sells plastic-free waxed paper that is great for food prep, and also for keeping cheese or vegan cheese in the fridge.

What’s Wrong with Clingfilm?

Clingfilm is awful stuff. It remains one of the plastics that can’t be recycled, and due to removing PVC, it now does not even work properly, often falling apart when you try to wrap food with it.

It also produces ‘nurdles’ during production, which look like fish food, if they end up in the sea (which they inevitably do). There are tons of eco alternatives these days, search this site, look online – or cover your food with a plate!

Vegware sells compostable food packaging for industry. The range includes cups, takeaway bowls and containers, cutlery and deli containers.