The No Meat company (vegan sausage rolls: no palm oil)
The No Meat Company is the find you’ve been looking for. Tasty vegan meats all without palm oil (even their sausage rolls). Despite the popularity these days of ‘vegan sausage rolls’, nearly all sold contain palm oil. But these don’t, so are helping to protect habitats of orangutans and other endangered creatures in Borneo and Indonesia.
What’s great is that these products are designed to be affordable. You can find them in Iceland and Food Warehouse along with online at Ocado. All products are cooked from frozen.
Avoid sausages for young children and choking hazards (for older children, slice lengthwise and lengthwise again into strips). Recycle packaging at supermarket bag bins, if your kerbside doesn’t recycle.
Don’t give leftovers to pets, garden birds or wildfowl (due to onion, garlic, salt).
As the government is legislating so vegan brands can’t call their products ‘meat’, this company has cleverly just labelled its products as ‘chicken-friendly’, ‘cow-friendly’ and ‘pig-friendly’ to avoid rebranding! The range includes:
- Vegan Sausage Rolls (palm-oil-free pastry) are seasoned with sage and onion. In jumbo size, slice in mini-bites to share. Or eat a whole big one yourself!
- No Chick & Vegetable Pies have no palm oil in the pastry. These seasoned soya chunks with carrots and peas in gravy, are nice with mashed potatoes, broccoli and vegan gravy. Or thick-cut chips and mushy peas.
- No Meat Mince is good in spaghetti bolognese, lasagne, chilli non carne or cottage pie. Serve with garlic bread or a green salad.
- No Meat Crispy Nuggets are good in a wrap with salad, or go traditional and serve with oven chips and peas! Or in a sandwich with lettuce and tomato.
- No Chick Tikka with Rice (chicken-style pieces simmered in spiced tomato sauce with fluffy basmati rice). Serve with warm garlic naan and mango chutney.
Why do Gregg’s use palm oil in vegan sausage rolls?
Almost certainly due to it being cheap (despite being flown thousands of miles across the world to sell here). There are other alternatives (as proved with the The No Meat Co – if they can do it, so can all the others).
And despite sometimes being a mouthy anti-vegan goof, Piers Morgan is right to chastise companies that promote vegan sausage rolls as being ‘animal-friendly’. Because if they contain palm oil, they are not. Greenpeace says there is no such thing as ‘sustainable palm oil‘. It’s just a self-policed term used by industry, to get away with using inferior ingredients for more profit, at the expense of endangered species that are nearing extinction.
When buying baked goods, don’t look for the RSPO (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil) logo. Look for the Palm Oil Free logo instead.
As well as being high in saturated fats, Gregg’s vegan sausage rolls also don’t apparently even taste nice. They are made with Quorn protein and seasoned heavily, but go a funny texture when cold, due to palm oil.
One French man wrote online ‘As I chewed and swallowed, I simply couldn’t understand how something could taste so bland, yet so revolting at the same time’.
Why pigs are brilliant!
Pigs are such wonderful mothers, they sing to their piglets! They are also very clean animals. They will build nests and walk up to a mile to go to the toilet. They are so brainy, they are up there with dolphins and chimpanzees.
They have strong bonds and will sleep nose-to-nose with other pigs. And use their sensitive snouts to forage for food (as eyes are on the sides of their heads, they have poor depth perception though can see a 310 panoramic view).
Pigs can’t sweat, which is why they roll in mud. Only domestic pigs have curly tails! And in the wild, pigs can live to be up to 20 years old.
