You can of course bake your own vegan biscuits. But millions of people buy packs of vegan biscuits in England (also good to form the base for vegan cheesecake recipes).
Avoid biscuits with nuts or seeds for young children and allergies. Also keep away from pets, due to nuts, chocolate, spices (feed quality dog biscuits instead). Read more on food safety for people and pets.
Don’t feed leftover biscuits to garden birds or wildfowl (hard crumbs can choke, and most biscuits contain salt and fat – which smears on feathers, affecting weatherproofing & insulation).
Greenpeace says there is no such thing as ‘sustainable palm oil’, a self-policed term that does not ensure the safe habitats of orangutans and other endangered creatures. Palm oil is used simply because it’s a cheap alternative to rapeseed oil, which would support our local farmers.
You can now recycle all soft plastic packaging at supermarket bag bins, if your kerbside does not recycle.
The Beginnings is a Latvian brand of healthy cookies (and flapjacks). Flavours include caramel oat, almond pecan, blackcurrant, almond orange and coconut ginger.
- Rhythm 108 is a Swiss brand that offers coconut crunch, almond biscotti, lemon ginger chia and hazelnut chocolate praline.
- Mr Organic makes good digestive biscuits, and flavours biscuits (orange cocoa or plain cocoa).
- Snacks & More offers oat cinnamon, coconut vanilla and cocoa tahini biscuits, along with children’s biscuits, in fun animal shapes.
- Sweet F.A Gluten-Free (Scotland) offers organic oat raisin biscuits (with cinnamon). Look in stores for other vegan flavours (cranberry orange, peanut butter and double choc chip).
