If you’re not interested in cooking, and ingredients such as gram and buckwheat flour sound too alien, then here’s a bit of advice for the potential junk food vegans amongst you. Eating a wide range of vitamin-rich plant-based foods will ensure you have a healthy diet, but what do you do if you just fancy a bit of quick-fix rubbish now and then – a sugary biscuit or a cheap stodgy cake, for example? Yes, it’s much better to have a handful of nuts and dried fruit to keep you going, but sometimes you might just want a quick sugar boost, right?
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Chocolate chip Hobnobs – yes, they really are vegan
Well, being a vegan doesn’t mean you’re completely excluded from the unhealthy delights of the food industry. Quite a lot of cheap biscuits are vegan – some digestives, rich tea, plain Hobnobs and the choc chip version, bourbons and ginger nuts, for instance. Some consider Oreo’s to be the jewel in the vegan biscuit crown! You just have to learn to look carefully at labels; in particular, to ensure that products are free from whey, a milk-by product added to so many convenience foods.
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My own occasional guilty, sweet junk food pleasure are Co-op jam and custard doughnuts, which (amazingly) are suitable for vegans. Most other doughnuts seem to contain whey. Five guaranteed artery-clogging teeth-rotters for 79p, or ten for a pound. Bliss!
On the savoury front, plain crisps are almost always vegan; salt and vinegar are often not. And a portion of chips always goes down a treat, of course, though you should check that they’ve been cooked in vegetable fat rather than lard.
