Vivera (plant-based meats from The Netherlands)
Vivera is a Dutch food brand that is widely sold in UK grocery stores, and tends to offer a better selection than many of the supermarket own brands. They are mostly based on sustainable tofu, so packed with protein. And all affordable and easy to cook.
Before cooking, read up on food safety for people and pets (don’t feed leftovers to pets, garden birds and wildfowl – due to salt, onion, garlic, spices, mushrooms etc).
Most councils now recycle soft plastic packaging. If not, pop it in the supermarket plastic packaging bin, next time you’re passing.
This is quite an interesting story. The brand began (under a different name) as a meat butcher. But as people requested plant foods, it began to add them to the range. Eventually they were so popular, they decided to give up selling meat, now only sells plant-based foods, and changed their name!
Now sold across Europe, the range includes:
- Plant-based steak, mince and bacon
- Plant-based chicken breast & pieces
- Plant-based kebabs
- Plant-based salmon fillets
- Mini protein-bites
Why Choose Vegan Meats?
Often people are criticised for choosing vegan meats, saying they are ‘not natural’ and we should ‘support our farmers’. In fact, England has 60 million meat so we don’t have enough free-range land to eat meat in its present quantities, without resorting to horrible factory farms.
So if you eat meat, choose free-range (and pay a little more). And some of the time, choose vegan meats (these are fine if made without palm oil, and you recycle the packaging). No cholesterol too!
