About this site
This site is intended as a resource for anyone interested in cooking vegan food or learning about what vegan eating involves. My aim is to help make vegan shopping, cooking and eating simpler and more enjoyable, in order to help make the vegan lifestyle easier both for vegans and for non-vegans who cook for them.
I hope that this site will be a useful resource, in particular for:
- non-vegans faced with the ‘task’ of providing food for a vegan visitor
- new vegans or anyone thinking of becoming vegan looking for ideas on what to eat
- dairy and egg allergy sufferers
- anyone wishing to reduce their eco-footprint (vegan diets and those less reliant on animal products have a lower environmental impact than typical omnivorous ones)
- anyone looking for new recipe ideas
- people wishing to eat a healthier diet
- anyone looking for vegetarian recipes that aren’t full of cheese and eggs
- people aiming to cut down on animal products in their diet for any reason
After I became vegan, I found myself explaining a lot of the same food-related points to relatives and friends (no, most margarine isn’t vegan, yes, some brown gravy granules are vegan, etc.). I thought there must be other people out there in a similar situation; people wanting to (or having to) cook for vegan relatives or friends but not being sure where to start, and new vegans trying to explain to others what they do and don’t eat and reassure their relatives that it really won’t be difficult to feed them when they come over for Sunday dinner, so I wanted to try and compile the information and pointers I’ve learned into a resource that can be accessed by the wider world. Basically I want to show people that cooking vegan food isn’t difficult, vegan food is tasty and varied and providing food for a vegan visitor doesn’t have to be a massive pain in the wotsit…
This site is UK-based, so a lot of the product information included in the site will be particularly relevant to British readers.
About the author
My name is Charley, I’m a 25-year-old vegan living in Sheffield, UK. I’ve been a vegan since 2006 and a vegetarian since 1999. I’m a trainee information professional (that’s librarian to you) and as such I have an interest in collecting, organising and sharing accurate information for the benefit of anyone who wants it.
I enjoy cooking and I’ve found that becoming vegan has helped me to be a lot more creative in my cooking. I enjoy cooking and baking for other people and I suspect that the best way to introduce people to the concept of veganism is through delicious food! I’m also interested in nutrition and I try and incorporate this knowledge into the food I eat day-to-day, but my favourite vegan foods to make for other people are cheesecake, chocolate cake, sausage rolls and chocolate chip cookies…
When I’m not cooking, eating or reading recipe books, I can usually be found playing guitar and fiddle, sound engineering, reading things in foreign languages, going on holiday or to folk festivals, doing coursework, wasting time on the internet or trying to get through all the books I brought home from the library because they looked interesting.