Gravy is an essential part of any roast dinner - vegetarian dinners included. Homemade gravy is great, but the convenience and tastiness of shop-bought gravy is hard to beat. Okay - so you know that the green ‘vegetable’ gravy tubs are vegetarian, but what about the others? In the past, the green vegetarian/vegetable gravy granules …

Many of you were disappointed to learn that Walkers had begun to include real meat in their meat-flavoured crisps. I went on a quest to see how many alternative meat-flavoured crisps I could find in my local supermarket (Sainsburys) that were labelled as ‘suitable for vegetarians’. Those I found are shown in the gallery below (click …

Tide Tables is a vegetarian café situated in a converted arch beneath Richmond Bridge, beside the Thames, in the lovely town of Richmond in South-West London. Having spent a lot of time in London over the past few years, I was getting bored with the usual tourist spots and was running out of new and interesting places to visit. However, I’d …

This week I was sent some samples of some new vegetarian sausages, known as ‘Secret Sausages - Vegetables In Disguise’. The ‘secret’ referred to in the name, is that they contain no meat, and are three quarters vegetables and rice. They are approved by the Vegetarian Society, and three sausages will provide you with enough …

Have you ever thought about growing your own food? Do you think it might be too difficult and not worth the effort? If so, I’m hoping that this article will change your mind. Growing your own food is not as difficult as you might think. Firstly, you don’t have to be an expert gardener (or have any gardening experience), secondly you …

I have eaten out in a few non-vegetarian restaurants recently, so I thought I’d share my experiences of the ‘vegetarian options’ I encountered. Bella Italia Bella Italia: Vegetarian Four Seasons pizza Italian restaurants often provide a few vegetarian options to choose from, and Bella Italia is no exception. The vegetarian …

Colin the Caterpillar has changed for the better - he has become a beautiful vegetarian butterfly! Following on from the success of their veggie Percy Pig sweets, Marks and Spencer have just launched some brand new gelatine-free Colin the Caterpillar sweets. This time, instead of tweaking the appearance of the existing non-veggie sweet (like with …

Today Marks and Spencers lauched a new vegetarian version of their successful Percy Pig brand of sweets! These new gelatine-free Percy Pig fruit gums are called ‘Veggie Percy’ and each veggie Percy has a green ear, to distinguish it from the non-veggie Percy Pigs. The twittersphere has been getting very excited about this new launch - …

Ben sampling an Innocent Veg Pot Today Ben and I ventured into London to attend the Vegetarian Society’s Meet the Manufacturer event, held at the Window Conference centre in Islington. We weren’t sure what to expect, since we’ve attended a few vegetarian events in the past (some of which weren’t very interesting) but …

In our Byron Bay Cookie Competition we asked you what your favourite Vegetarian Society approved product was. We had 277 entries in total - and big congratulations goes to Emma Piggott, Kelly Ward and Sharon Goss, who each won a box of cookies! I’ve now analysed the entries and I can announce that the most popular Vegetarian Society approved …

The lovely people at Byron Bay Cookies have kindly donated a selection of cookies for us to put to the test! Even more generously - they are donating a mixed box of cookies to not just one but to *three* very lucky competition winners! In the UK all Byron Bay cookies are approved by The Vegetarian Society. They therefore contain free range eggs …

Welcome to the new Veggie Advisor blog! This new section of the website will provide extra content in addition to the main Articles, Eating Out and Recipe sections of the Veggie Advisor website, and it will feature smaller veggie-related articles and reviews. The things you can look forward to reading about here include: Experiences at non-veggie …