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A WEEK OF GIVEAWAYS! Celebrating UK National Vegetarian Week. T-Shirts & A Cookbook Today!!

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The week of Giveaways continue! 
We are celebrating UK National Vegetarian Week.  Prizes to be won EVERYDAY until 26th May.  All competitions close at the same time so there is still time to enter to win.

 Viva! join the party today to give 2 lucky readers the chance to win a gorgeous T Shirt or a fabulous cookbook!

Viva! are a UK based charity who campaign to end of animal suffering, to protect the planet and cease the killing of farmed animals. Viva’s! director Juliet Gellatley and her dedicated team and volunteers are on a mission to make the world a kinder, saner place.  Juliet says, 
“The most powerful action you can take to end animal suffering, improve your health, protect the environment and bring fairness to the world’s poor is to stop eating meat, dairy and fish’. 
Through research, campaigns, information and support they are helping to do just that.  They also have an online shop so you kind find all you need to support an environmentally aware and kinder lifestyle.  Food & Wine, Clothing & Accessories, Books, Beauty, Gifts and Homewares.  And even publications to help support your greener, cleaner life.  

Thanks to the nice people at Viva! you can get a chance to win this vibrant, vivacious vegan cookbook – straight from the hearts of Viva!’s flour-dusted kitchenistas.  100 simple vegan recipes with sections devoted to;
Kid-friendly recipes
Entertaining non-vegetarian friends
Eating solo and how to freeze your food to save time and money

And just to whet your appetite chapters include: Feel the Pulse; Tofu Secrets; Souperb; Lunch-out; A bit on the Side; The Main Event; Sweet Thing and more!  

Do you want it? Then enter below.

Or you can win a Viva! T-Shirt.  Choose from a man’s T or a cute Woman’s Vest.

Viva! has a website packed full of valuable resources, recipes and nutrition advice.  Even their own online magazine.  Be sure to check it out.  

UK Residents Only.  Good luck!   Be sure to sign up to the newsletter and come back tomorrow for another great giveaway.

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A WEEK OF GIVEAWAYS!! UK National Vegetarian Week. Today A HUGE Box Of Hand Cooked Crisps from Ten Acre

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It is all happening this week at A Vegan Obsession’s HQ! We are celebrating UK National Vegetarian Week everyday with great vegetarian/vegan goodies to GIVEAWAY!

You can win with Rebel Kitchen Ovivo Antioxidant Drink Tibits Love Raw (click on the links to enter). ALL competitions are ending last thing on 26th May 2014. We still have many more prizes coming up in the next few days. So sign up for the newsletter to make sure you don’t miss a trick!



I am super excited and a wee bit nostalgic about today’s giveaway. I have always been partial to a crisp. Especially cheese and onion, which I would layer between slices of thickly buttered white bread or a crusty roll and then use both hands to press the crisps down to create a layer of cheesy, salty and very onion-y shards. It was my sandwich of choice. I’d add slabs of cheese too at times, or some chunky pickle. But when I became vegan, all those moons ago I gave up this delicacy and got used to the idea that my days with cheese and onion crisps where to be placed in the vaults of time. Can you imagine how I felt when I opened a bag of Ten Acre Crisps (crisps where no dairy lurks) and crunched down? It was like welcoming an old friend back into my arms! Yes, a tear was shed. And, then I scoffed the whole bag and took all the flavours around to my friends to share and test the others. This task was indeed happy making. As I am sure this competition will be to one VERY LUCKY winner of a WHOLE box featuring bags of 8 flavours (there is even a How Chicken Soup Saved The Day flavour!). Indulgence never tasted so good!

When Bombay Got Spicy
The Story Of When The Cheese Met The Onion
How Chicken Soup Saved The Day
The Amazing Adventures Of Salt & Vinegar
When Hickory Got BBQ’D
The Day Sweet & Sour Became Friends
Secret Of Mr Salt
When The Chili Got Sweet

All these could be YOURS! Trust me, these WILL win friends and influence people.




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A WEEK OF GIVEAWAYS! Celebrate UK National Vegetarian Week. Today we have Beauty Without Cruelty Cosmetics!

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 The fun continues.  We are celebrating UK National Vegetarian Week by giving away goodies EVERYDAY 19-26th May!

Have you entered the competitions for the other awesome prizes? We’ve had cookbooks, raw bars, delicious flavoured coconut milks and more!
We are so excited about today’s giveaway from ethical cosmetics company Beauty Without Cruelty.  They are giving away matching sets of lips and nails to FIVE lucky WINNERS!!!  You have seven cool colours to choose from. I’m a bit partial to the Reckless Ruby!  Have a look at their totally vegan and cruelty free range here. Each prize is worth nearly £18!!

UK Residents only.

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A WEEK OF GIVEAWAYS! UK National Vegetarian Week Celebrations. Two Giveaways On Offer Today!

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We’ve got not one but TWO give ways today in our WHOLE WEEK of Giveways to celebrate UK National Vegetarian Week.  We had Rebel Kitchen Choco Mylk drinks on Monday, Tuesday  a sumptuous cookbook (click on the links to enter), today we have a duo of prizes for you.

Today’s Giveaways

One lucky winner will get to drink themselves healthy with the power of olive leaves, a potent antioxidant.  Two bottles are up for grabs so someone can sample it’s benefits for 2 weeks.  OVIVO Daily Antioxidant Plus Sure to put a spring in your step!

Next we have LoveRaw’s organic bars.  Totally raw and organic super food bars.  2 flavours to give way to one winner. GLUTEN, WHEAT and DAIRY free.  No added sugar or soy.

Enter both below.  Good luck!

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A Week Of Giveaways Celebrating National Vegetarian Week - Tibits At Home Cook Book

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Day 2 of our celebration of UK National Vegetarian Week.  Thanks for joining us!   Did you enter yesterdays competition for Rebel Kitchen Mylks?  Great.  

So today we have a cookbook to giveaway.  Everyone loves a cookbook and this book is true food porn.  Tibits is a modern vegetarian restaurant just off Regent Street in London.  I had the pleasure to review a dining experience there last year.   As with most good food hubs, beloved signature dishes develop and public demand for recipes grow.  So Tibits published a cookbook on their 10th anniversary called tibits At Home.  The hard backed book is seasonally compartmentalised, and full of beautiful photographs with simple recipes to try.  One of the staff told me that all the photos in the book were taken in the homes of regular diners in Switzerland.  Today, thanks to the generosity of tibits we have a copy to give away to one lucky winner!  It could be you.  Just enter below.

Good luck!!  Remember to sign up for our newsletter.  We are giving away prizes EVERYDAY this week!

Open to UK residents only.

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A WEEK OF GIVEAWAYS! National Vegetarian Week 2014. Celebrate With Us. Win A Box Rebel Kitchen Mylks!

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Happy UK National Vegetarian Week!! 

Our week of giveaways is finally here!  Make sure you subscribe to the blog to get all the updates.

First up is Rebel Kitchen.  A rather nice bunch of people who make exciting dairy-free and totally yummy ‘mylk’ drinks which are nourishing, affordable and very delicious.  Good for everyone.  They use fair trade ingredients.  Spring Water. Coconut milk. Date Nectar and natural ingredients, like orange oil, bananas or matcha, which make up the various flavour varieties in the range. 

We have a box of both ranges which are lactose/dairy free and suitable for vegans and vegetarians.  
‘Kids’ flavours are Choco, Banana & my personal favourite, Orange Choc Mylk. 
‘Grown Ups’ can indulge too with Matcha, Choco & Chai. Being healthy made easy and oh so good.

If you want to get your hands on a box of all six flavours then enter below and then cross your fingers!


Enter here and remember to sign up for the blog newsletters.  Come back tomorrow for our next giveaway!


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VegFEST Bristol 2014 - Free Tickets To Giveaway

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Preparations for one of Europe’s biggest and most unique vegan lifestyle and music festival VegfestUK Bristol 23-25th May, are gathering pace, with headliners announced and tickets now on sale.
This festival traditionally features a vegan food fayre during the day and lets it’s hair down with headline music in the evenings.  25,000 visited past 2 years.

This year’s headliners are:

- Boney M ft. Maizie Williams, Gwen Dickey’s Rose Royce, Abba Gold on Friday May 23rd
- Peter Hook and the Light, Ruts D.C., Goldblade on Saturday May 24th
- Zion Train, Black Roots on Sunday May 25th

Full admission info and advance tickets for the evening part of the show are at  www.bristol.vegfest.co.uk/ticket-information

Of course you want to be there!  We have 2 pairs of tickets to giveaway.  1 pair for Friday and 1 pair for Saturday. Each pair is worth £25!

Enter below for your chance to win.  Winners to be announced 1st week in May.

Meanwhile, the daytime events feature 140 stalls & caterers, dozens of talks and cookery demos, clay modelling workshops, hoola-hoops, kids cookery classes, art and craft tent, comedy hours, short films, 5 all-day bars and more!

Admission for daytime events is £3 (pay on gate) and free for kids under 16, with no advance tickets available.


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A Campaign For Change Makers - URGENT DEADLINE LOOMS

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We need you.  Time is ticking and a deadline is looming closer. We have just 13 days left.  Let’s do this!

If I gave you a simple way to help animals, people (your family, friends) and the environment, AND make history you’d take it, right?!  Wherever you are in the world you can help.  All it may take is a ‘click’ or a ‘share’.  Social media has the power to make huge positive, political change.  I can guarantee the next 3 minutes of your life are going to leave you with a self-satisfied, warm glow.  Please read on. You can say you were part of global change movement for our future generations. 

Ok, so I’ve spent the last two days becoming acquainted with Vanessa Hudson, Leader of the Animal Welfare Party.  The UK arm of a pan-European political party, who are contesting in the May 2014 EU Parliament elections with the aim of returning dedicated representatives for animals to the EU Parliament for the first time in history.   You can read about it more in their manifesto statement.  I interviewed Vanessa…twice. Due to technical issues, I also became VERY acquainted with Apple Support, who try as they might, weren’t able to furnish you the interview with audio (right, major flaw).  If you can lip read.  You’re in business!  Go watch a snippet of interview below!

So, because of this (and much to my chagrin), I am forced to summarise….

Basically Vanessa says of the AWP;

” We think this is as significant as any moment in the history of women’s rights or human rights. We believe that only by having elected representatives in the EU Parliament can the interests of animals begin to be properly protected. “

How will helping the animals address issues that are effecting us all, world-wide right now?   Take a look at the AWP Indiegogo campaign.
The Animal Welfare Party mission statement states they are a party for the people, animals and the environment.   How can the action of the AWP help?

  • Promoting healthy plant based diets - helps us ALL on many levels.                     PEOPLE
  • Redirecting subsides from livestock to plant-based agriculture will reduce environmental pollution and make MORE land available.             ENVIRONMENT
  • Improving welfare for ALL animals will undoubtedly make the world a more compassionate place.  We are in an era of change and shifting of perspectives.  This is the chance for us to give voice to the animals.  All of us would want to end the suffering of animals.       ANIMALS


Please consider forgoing not even the price of a cup of coffee…. £1 or $1 (or more, PERKS offered) to help the campaign get the funding it needs to be elected in May 2014.. THANK YOU.   If you can only SHARE this campaign on Facebook or Twitter.  THANK YOU.

We all want change.  
This is part of that change.  
Together we can make a BIG Difference.       Please help! 

We have just until 31st December to raise the funds needed to back the campaign. It is vital we bond together now to act.

Thank YOU!  

Surely A ‘Must Do’ When In New York. Go Visit A Chocolate Factory [video clip]

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Not all chocolates are created equal.  Not all raw chocolates cut the mustard so to speak.  Fine & Raw does.  

Tell you about Fine & Raw?  OK.

“FINE & RAW was started in a notorious Williamsburg, Brooklyn artist loft by Daniel Sklaar. A nonsensical obsession with chocolate inspired Daniel to begin making small chocolate batches. He shared them with friends then started delivering them on his bicycle to small local purveyors. The stock was good - the purveyors wanted more”

The first slip of a morsel of F&R into my mouth occurred at the Williamsburg Brooklyn Flea foodie market named Smorgasburg (see what they did?!).  Here I sampled a few morsels and became rather partial to their Sea Salt Chunky bar. I declare it is rich dark chocolate heaven with the perfect amount of sea salt to offset the subtle sweetness that lets the cacao shine. I loved it so much I tracked down the factory to the uber trendy Brooklyn district of Bushwick.   The smell inside was insane.  I inhaled so much and so deeply I nearly had to grab one of their brown paper bags to stop me hyperventilating!

If you are in Brooklyn I strongly suggest you get yourself over to the Fine & Raw HQ and meet these bean to bar makers. It is a fun thing to do and there are a few vegan cafes and even a vegan bar just around the corner. Brooklyn has a very different feel to Manhattan and Bushwick and nearby Williamsburg are a great place to shop, eat and hang out.  Check out the graffiti around there, too.

 Back to Fine & Raw…They source their beans from small sustainable farmers in countries like Columbia and Madagascar.  They have a little cafe area where you can sip a hot drink, eat far too much chocolate (you can sample their amazing flavours of ‘bonbon’ ‘lucuma & vanilla’ and ‘blueberry’ ‘chipotle’ and even one with cacao nibs in, to name but a few), and watch the chocolate making shenanigans unfold before your eyes.  

What makes this chocolate ‘raw’?  Well, it means it is not heated above a certain temperature and so it mains it’s flavour profile and maintains it’s nutrients.

Fine & Raw
 288 Seigel St, Brooklyn, NY 11206

Making History. Animal Welfare Party Set Their Sights On A Seat In EU Parliament

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This is an exciting opportunity for your chance to be part of helping to get a devoted animal lover, and campaigner, Vanessa Hudson, get into the EU Parliament.  Please join us in supporting the www.animalwelfareparty.org.  

We need around 140,000 votes in London (our target constituency) in order for the Animal Welfare Party to win a seat. We know they can do it because estimates tell us there are around half a million members of the electorate in London following some kind of vegetarian diet – and therefore likely to be warm to our policies. That’s three times enough people to vote them into that seat and make history for the animals! 


Click below to find out more about the crowd funding project they have launched to get the funds they need to make this happen.  Be part of making history!

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Lemon, cardamon cookies encrusted with dark chocolate and pistachio crumbs.
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Artisan Raw Chocolate Giveaway from Fine & Raw
A WEEK OF GIVEAWAYS!! UK National Vegetarian Week. Today A HUGE Box Of Hand Cooked Crisps from Ten Acre
Baked Zucchini Fries with lemon aioli – Gluten free, low fat and crispilicious