Holistic Vegan

When you first go vegan, it can feel like you're missing out on a lot of your favourite treats. Although we've come a long want in the past few years, it can still be difficult and expensive to find delicious chocolate (and wheat free) treats that are affordable and delicious. These can be made on quite a low budget, or as fancy as you want if you choose to splash out on posh ingredients. It doesn't matter, they will be lovely anyway! I made my latest batch with gluten free digestives from Asda. To give you an idea of proportions, I used 10 biscuits because they're rather small. You would need around 6 or 7 normal sized wheat digestives or HobNobs. Digestives and oaty biscuits like HobNobs are *usually* vegan friendly, but be sure to check the label! Ingredients 200g vegan friendly chocolate (dark or milk, I like to use half and half) 70ml plant milk 100g vegan friendly digestive biscuit crumbs (gluten & wheat free if required) 100g plant based m

The Royal Medical Academy of Belgium recently published their findings on the suitability of vegan and vegetarian diets for children on 14th May 2019. In light of the alarmist media articles in English speaking publications such as The Telegraph and the New York Times, I've taken the time to translate the press release for you. In case you were wondering, I'm a fluent French speaker and former professional translator. If you wish to peruse the original French for yourself, the original document can be found here , the full document her e, and the short version here . My Comments I am frankly very disappointed, not only with the choice of experts chosen for the commission, notably Jacques Rigo is a consultant for Nestle in respect of dairy based infant milk product preNAN. The findings are not only extremely short sighted, worded in an excessively emotive tone that I feel is inappropriate for a supposedly scientific document, and the studies they rely upon for thei