Purezza: Vegan Pizza in London, Brighton, Manchester

Dominoes offers good vegan pizza (but you can’t order mini-pizzas and the boxes’ plastic sauce dishes end up littered everywhere – it’s presently in legal wranglings with Sheringham council in Norfolk, due to it not wanting any more chain stores, in a town with 40 indie food outlets they wish to protect).

Purezza (London, Brighton, Manchester) is an award-winning vegan pizzeria that launched around 10 years ago, founded by an Italian who uses mostly local organic ingredients and no palm oil (outlets are furnished with reclaimed materials, run on green energy and even the loos have recycled bathroom tissue!

The range includes pizzas topped with their own cashew mozzarella (sold wholesale to other restaurants) includes Quattro formaggi (4 vegan cheeses!), Fungi pizza (with truffle oil) and Plant-based salami pizza.

CauliBox makes reusable pizza takeaway boxes that can be washed and returned to companies to save money and reduce waste packaging.

Don’t give leftover pizza crust to garden birds or wildfowl (could choke, and salt is toxic). You also can’t recycle greasy parts of pizza boxes, just throw them away. 

Note that most vegan restaurants don’t accept cash, as bank notes are made with animal fats (and plastic). Check site updates for accessibility, and dog-friendly restaurants.

It’s best to avoid fast food restaurants for chips (KFC cooks theirs in fat, as does McDonald’s abroad, and Burger King’s plant-based whoppers are cooked on the same grill as meat.

McDonald’s fries are vegan in England (but not always abroad) and their Filet-o-Fish is made with Alaskan pollock (a fish now veering towards being endangered). Experts say that if you eat  fish that has no label, it’s probably pollock.

Created in the 50s for Catholics (who didn’t eat meat on Fridays), this plain fish in a bun with tartare sauce is apparently President Trump’s favourite meal.

When he recently enjoyed a huge banquet on a state visit, apparently on the flight back home he said ‘Whatever the hell they served, I don’t know’ (it was made with British organic ingredients including Hampshire watercress, Kent raspberries and Victoria plums). As a teetotal, he was also not impressed with offerings of organic cognac, wondering where his usual diet soda was.

Chip shops can use plastic-free packaging from Vegware (which also sells biodegradable pots for mushy peas). Another good swap would be to use rapeseed oil (that helps our local farmers) instead of palm oil (causes deforestation and is imported from Indonesia).