Keeping affordable tinned vegan meals on hand, means you can stock up your cupboards then whenever you get the lunchtime munchies, just open a can, heat up in a pan and enjoy with bread for a quick nutritious meal.
Before cooking, read up on food safety for people & pets (many human foods like onion, garlic, spices are unsafe around animal friends).
SUMA is a UK health food wholesaler, and their own-brand products can be found throughout most indie health stores and in some farm shops and supermarkets or buy in bulk online. Check out their amazing tinned ready-meals. They tick all the boxes. They are affordable, plant-based, packed with protein, delicious, have no palm oil (the stew dumpling can does) and in zero-waste tins. What’s not to love?
- Saag aloo is a spicy ready-made vegan curry.
- Baked beans with Lincolnshire sausages feature mini-sausages in tomato sauce with herbs and spices. Try on toast or jacket potatoes.
- Organic ravioli in tomato sauce (no protein in this one but packed with veggies). Try with garlic bread. Also in a mushroom version.
- Chorizo-style stew (ideal if you like very spicy food, this is a Spanish-inspired sausage with peppers and chickpeas).
- Vegan Mac n Cheese (again no protein, but one judge says this is good, you have to put your fork down to remember this is tinned!)
- Meatball chilli (a warmly spiced meal with soya) and vegan meatballs
- Vegan spaghetti bolognese (ideal for an instant snack, this blends soy mince and pasta with a rich tomato onion herb sauce).
- Vegan pea & ham soup (the ultimate classic, but plant-based). There are also many other soups including organic pea soup, minestrone and tomato (way more tomatoes than you-know-who!)
We Can Foods offers a nice line of plant-based meals in tins. Just heat and eat. The range (the savoury versions have better reviews than the tinned desserts) includes:
- Bolognese (meat-free mince in tomato sauce)
- Carbonara (coconut cream with vegan ham & cheese)
- Thai red or green curry (meat-free chicken in chilli coconut sauce)
- Madras curry (meat-free chicken in tomato coconut sauce)
- Korma or tikka curry (made with meat-free chicken)
- Mexican chilli (meat-free mince & kidney beans in tomato)
- Szechuan curry (a Chinese curry with meat-free chicken)
Hodmedod’s Vaal Dhal is inspired by the cuisine of northern India, but uses British-grown fava beans for a wonderful instant curry.
Heinz’s plant-based tinned meals
After many years of waiting, Heinz has finally released a plant-based cream-of-tomato soup. Everyone who tries it, says it tastes exactly the same, and was worth the wait! Sold in all good grocery stores, also pick up a can or two of their cans of baked beans with vegan sausages!
