Vegan supermarket junk food

I absolutely love all the new vegan eats coming out in the supermarkets lately! Everyone is FINALLY realising, it’s amazing! I only wish I didn’t take so long to come to this way of thinking! But we won’t talk about That! Let’s just talk about how amazing and tasty and GOOD for you it is, but also how you can totally snack out on the crap you used to eat like ‘chicken nuggets’ and chips or a good ole ketchup and sausage sarnie 😍
You’ll find most of the meat replacers have plenty of protein in but please check if not that you’re eating plenty of good stuff like nuts (I LOVE Brazil nuts) and adding stuff like Chia seeds to your breakfast or pasta sauces!
Here’s a photo of the Vegan stuff I’ve just bought in today’s food shop at Asda (12th Feb 2019)

So my favourite savoury supermarket vegan stuff is
~Fry’s sausage rolls  (usually only in Sainsbury’s or Holland & Barrats)
~Linda Mcartneys frozen sausages
~Vivera pulled chicken  and ‘steaks’
~Morrison’s own meatless burgers (Tesco’s have egg in them)
~Asda or Tesco soft cheese
~  Most crisps...I’m addicted to walkers ready salted and plain nachos with my cream cheese (mentioned above)
~ Falafels, carrot sticks and cucumber with hummus...sooo yummy, I never thought I’d like it but it was me who was wrong all along, so yummy, so healthy and so so needs to be tried! Perfect for snacking out with a bowl of crisps to dip too! Plus Sainsbury’s  dons reduced fat guacamole that is vegan!
~ Squeaky bean 100% dirty vegan chicken nuggets these are amazing! I found them in Asda, loved them so much I made sure I got two packets the next time!

These are really good to have with some sweet potato fries, which are SO EASY TO DO YOURSELF BY THE WAY! Literally just cut the sweet potato up into chip shapes, add a little bit of oil of your choice (nut oil is lush with them but so is standard olive oil!) then oven bake for like 25 mins and they’re amazing with some salt and pepper 😍

Favourite sweet vegan supermarket stuff is
~Food heaven whipped cream (in Asda and Morrison’s!)
~Swedish glacé vanilla ice cream
~Ben & Jerrys chocolate fudge brownie (which I actually blogged about last year thinking it was amazing that there was a different flavour vegan icecream out AND NOW THERES LOADS TO CHOOSE FROM! But I seem to like to stick to my first love lol )
~Naked protein bars especially the blueberry and orange chocolate ones
~ Oreos of course 😍
~ fruit! All the fruit 😋
~ Lazy Day Foods rocky road squares (I usually find them in Sainsbury’s)

I also make the most amazing vegan cake from the devils kitchen baking range 😍

The milk we always drink is KoKo which is an amazing coconut milk that doesn’t even taste like coconut! Loads of added vitamins and minerals too!
Also the Cadbury drinking chocolate powder you add to milk is dairy freee so add that to  KoKo and you’ll get your Cadbury fix! You’ll also be surprised at how quick you get used to dark chocolate, plus the after 8 style mints are all vegan too 🤤🤤

Also if you’re into protein / meal shakes that sort of thing then Huel makes the most tasty vegan recipe, you just add a scoop or two into water or, do what I do and add a load of other stuff too and make the most tasty and filling drink! Little video below you may have seen in one of my stories!

The only thing about all these amazing foods and new brands is that I seem to have to go around 3-5 different supermarkets to find them all! It’ll all become even more available soon though,
2018 it all started changing so much from the first proper ‘veganuary’  so many high street food places started catching on and then came the Greggs vegan sausage roll that even meat eaters were raving about (and still are!)

Another diary entry

So, first of all, apologies for not blogging for what I didn’t realise until today is 7 whole months! I must admit I got myself in a whirlwind of, ive just moved house 200 miles away, got married and need to start my business up again - eeek/argh/auto pilot mode!

After an awesome little birthday party for my friend on a canal boat in Leeds in October and an awesome couple of nights at WWE Raw & Smackdown live in November I realised I wanted take control of my social life again, so I planned a few nights out, the first being with my two local (to my new area) friends, first time I had since my wedding night in June! The second being a little trip to Edinburgh in January (something to look forward to after Christmas - which was a lovely one spent with our families) where I stayed over at a friends house and we had a night out to celebrate another friends birthday and tied it in with a tattoo date the next day!
 Below is a little gif my friend made after I went to hers for the afternoon the other week! It’s cute things like this I’m so glad I’m back to doing again 😍

 It’s all me realise how important it is for me to make sure I spend time with my friends too, make dates and plan stuff, not get so caught up with my business and other things that you can just get into doing daily, stopping you from realising you can break down a day into two, or three or four even!

The last three months I have decided to put more self care effort in, self care is really important, to spend more time of the day doing things that you love doing, it’s so easy to get caught up in sitting for hours on social media after work, talking about doing stuff you want to do, or scrolling Instagram,Pinterest getting ideas and inspiration, but then you need to actually get out there and just do it, I wonder how many hours we waste these days winding ourselves up on the internet? It’s still good to talk, network, share ideas etc, but make sure you always are doing too, don’t live someone else’s life through a screen.


Ive also started up my own bath bomb Instagram account to share my love for bath art even
more.... Click here to give it a follow if you like!

For when you need a bit more preachiness in your life 🍑 

Lush and their 2019 Valentines range got me like 🍆 

I’ve also promised myself (and Roxy my Chihuahua - pictured below on a recent walk in the Lake District) that we will go on more adventures rather than just the same walks, I want to explore more, take so many more photos..I think being a photographer you sometimes get that, work and personal thing, your hobby is your job, and I lost that a bit last year. I still took creative shots and star photos but I’m really pushing myself lately and now I’m fully back head over heels in love with taking photos again and I just want to explore my world around me! I’ve got this new feeling of freedom in me.

Below are some Robins I’ve photographed this month, I’ll be going back more now as I’ve signed up to the RSPB and I’m going to be visiting other places and building my own little bird haven in my garden 😍

 It’s as if before I was trapped in my own self guilt. Like I always need to be working because I’m my own boss, moving your business is so hard when you have to leave your clients behind but I’m getting there now again so I think it’s lifted a weight off my mind as well...
Anyway basically I’m back on the whole; We’ve only got this life. We need to live it as much as we can. #positivevibesonly

So if you’ve read all this, (thank you) make sure you plan something exciting to do after work tomorrow, don’t just do the same thing, go do something. Anything. If you want ideas, just hit me up, I’m more than happy to give you suggestions based on your interests and where you live etc, don’t get stuck in a rut

Can’t wait to blog about all this amazing vegan goodness that is coming out in the shops lately too! I’m LOVING it as you can imagine!