Vegan

Our favourite budget-friendly vegan and vegetarian recipes

12 best sausage recipes

So we’ve gathered up our best sausage recipes, from elegant pastas and comforting casseroles to next-level pizza toppings and Sunday lunch dishes. If you’re opting for meat sausages, always buy the highest-quality you can afford.

How to make meals veggie or vegan

Adapting straightforward, principle recipes is just one way to incorporate more meat-free meals into your week. Thankfully, it only takes a little imagination and a few good recipes to rustle up tasty veg-packed dishes. Our selection of easily adaptable recipes are so delicious, you won’t even miss the meat.

Our 10 favourite vegan summer recipes

Meat alternatives: what you need to know

But whether you eat meat or not, it’s always important to eat a balanced diet of protein, carbohydrates, healthy fats, veg and fruit. Here, we look at different vegetarian sources of protein.

Vegan cake and cookies recipes

The dairy part of the equation is pretty simple. You can try substituting butter with olive oil or coconut oil, often with fairly satisfying results. You will likely end up with a slightly denser cake, but I am quite partial to these anyway.

How to make vegetarian chilli

I used to pity vegetarians in winter. Lettuce won’t warm you on a cold, drizzly, dark evening, I would reason to myself.

Tea & cake with Food Tube’s Cupcake Jemma

It’s also practical: no plate, no spoon or – god forbid – spork is needed, just as wide a mouth as you can manage.

Costa Rica: crispy plantain chips & dips

There are piles of cookbooks and culinary textbooks in every room of my house, and whether it’s for work or pleasure I’m always in the kitchen surrounded by amazing flavours. I love to cook but most of all I love to learn about other cultures through food. So, when an assignment pops up to cook a food I’m completely unfamiliar with, instead of turning it down I jump on it [bless you – ed] because by the end I usually have a new-found respect for different flavour combinations.

Our top five vegan recipes

For a long time, veganism has had an unfairly bad name in the food industry. If you’ve been keeping an eye on the web and its foodie communities over the last few years, however, you’ll know that followers are growing in numbers quickly, and the creativity and resourcefulness of its chefs, from independent bloggers to specialist restaurants, is blossoming. With recipes like these gorgeous ones from Jamie and his food team, it’s no longer only omnivores who can enjoy a varied and satisfying diet – dig in!

No-bake vegan chocolate fudge bars

Being restricted in what you can eat can leave you in an unimaginative and unhealthy rut. If you suffer from coeliac disease or avoid a food for ethical reasons, it’s easy to build up a list of safe foods and never try anything new. Unfamiliar foods can fill people on special diets with fear – all those ingredients on the back of pack that you can’t pronounce tend to put you off. So what’s the solution? Make them yourself!

How to make vegan chilli-stuffed peppers

Despite being a meat-eating household, I cook a lot of vegetarian meals at home. After the decadent days of summer, I always try to incorporate more vegetables into my meals, and in the busy first few days of back-to-school, I’m keen to make big batches of healthy meals so I’ll have them on hand. The challenge is keeping those batch-cooked meals interesting, but there are loads of ways to do it.

Incredible vegan sloppy Joes

My younger sister was in town to hang out for a few days, and she is a vegetarian. Sure, it’s summer and we could easily subside on salads and gorgeous local berries, but I wanted to serve her something substantial. She works out rather extensively and, if it were me, I’d be starving afterward.

The best basic houmous recipe

Houmous is proof that some of the best tasting things in life are the simplest to make. It can be rustled up with just six ingredients and requires no cooking - only a food processor. The houmous recipe below will give you perfect basic houmous, and also a solid base from which to work in terms of experimenting with flavours.

Great British Bake Off: dessert week

There’s a special joy in a pudding. Whether the fabled pudding stomach exists or not, we can always make room for one even when we know we shouldn’t. I love the feeling of sitting back after a sticky toffee pudding, or picking at the crispy edges of a crumble once it’s all been devoured. I’m sure the desserts tonight will have a little more class than those, but in many ways I hope they don’t.

The complete guide to alternative milks

Lactose intolerance (or dairy intolerance) may seem like it’s becoming a more common digestive problem, but it’s actually always been fairly pervasive. While less than 5% of the UK population is affected, up to 50% of the populations of South America, Africa and Asia suffer from it.

The perfect homemade protein shake

Athletes and exercise junkies have gone mad for protein shakes and supplements over the past few years, with sales expected to reach £8bn over the next five years worldwide. The appeal of these products is that they claim to increase muscle strength, function and size, and although they’re largely consumed by 20-something men trying to bulk up for the summer before putting on a t-shirt a size too small to show off their hard work, they can definitely have a place in a active lifestyle.

Overnight chia seed pudding with star anise cherries

There are so many

All-natural vegan pantry staples

Though I am not personally vegan, I am a whole-foodist, and love to have plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables in my diet. Combine this with the gluten and dairy allergies I suffer from, and I find that I use many pages from the vegan playbook when cooking, which means I have to stay stocked up on vegan pantry staples.

Autumn meals: Tomato farro salad

Now that we are well into fall, healthy grains have taken the place of my leafy summer greens in those salads. I’ve gotten into the habit of keeping a bit of cooked quinoa or farro on hand in the refrigerator so my lunches can come together with minimal effort. Farro is a versatile ancient grain with a nutty flavour that pairs well with delicate tomatoes and mild herbs. Its delightfully chewy texture holds up well to bold vinaigrettes and the grains don't get soggy overnight in the refrigerator.

World Vegan Month is good for everyone

Whether you’re a vegan or not, there are endless reasons why we should all be delighted that the movement has grown so fast in the last few years. You don’t have to be vegan to feel its affects. Through adapting their diets to make sure they get all the vitamins they need, to pressuring big corporations and governments for more ethical products, vegans are giving food the focus it deserves.

Beautiful vegan Swedish cinnamon buns

The dough is spiked with ground cardamom - a spice that isn't often found in English baking but features prominently in Scandinavian recipes, especially for sweet treats! I think it brings so much to the flavour of the finished bun – it's not an overwhelming taste, but it matches the spicy cinnamon and adds depth.

My week as a vegan

While smugly chewing my way through two slices of peanut butter with jam on toast – smug because there is no butter in peanut butter – I was informed that the palm oil in my peanut butter is instead responsible for 300 football fields of deforestation every hour.

Glorious roasted pumpkin soup recipe

The wonderful thing about any squash is that, once slivered and roasted, it becomes soft, sweet and rich. That means there aren’t many dishes that wouldn’t benefit from some, and they can be used in a variety of dishes from salads to stews, and, of course, a hearty pumpkin soup.

Vegan mushroom risotto party cups

When you’re entertaining at home it’s best to keep things simple. Have a couple of bottles of Prosecco (or even some

Why eat less meat?

In fact, in the UK we’re slightly behind the times. Australia held a meat-free week from 18-24 March, and in the US the “Meat-free Monday” campaign is now in its fourth year. And in my opinion the movement is long overdue. Our 10 Healthy Meals initiative is partly designed to teach you how to cook without meat while never compromising on flavour.

Is a vegan diet healthy?

WHAT IS A VEGAN DIET?

Three great protein sources for vegans

Both campaigns encourage people to try going vegan for a month, in the hope that they might make the life change. A vegan diet is one that excludes all animal products, including meat, fish, eggs and dairy foods. It’s essentially eating anything that comes from a plant – fruit, vegetables, seeds, pulses, nuts, beans and grains.

A heavenly vegan chickpea & cider stew

The lavish holiday spreads have given way to humble fare, like a nourishing

Ultimate guide to salad leaves

There are more kinds of salad than any other dish – it can be a main, starter or pudding; a snack or a feast. You can have a fruit salad, a green salad, a bean salad, a potato salad, a cold salad, a warm salad, and many more.

A bold & beautiful coffee smoothie

That’s where this coffee smoothie comes in. All year round, this healthy delight will restore your constitution, revive your temperament, and give you the energy to take on just about anything. It tastes fantastic, and is perfect as a quick morning pick-me-up shake. Grab your blender out from the back of the cupboard and get, well, blending!

How I fell in love with tofu

When I plucked the golden-brown morsel from the mix and popped it in my mouth, I thought there’d been some terrible mistake - or had someone coated and fried a slice of bath sponge as a joke? I’ve heard of stranger things. But no; in the words of my veggie friend, that was ‘just tofu’. Miserable, chewy, spongey and tasteless.

Why tofu is healthy

Protein is essential for the growth and repair of muscles and foods from the protein group include meat and fish as well as beans and lentils. I aim to eat at least one portion each of oily and white fish each week, and up to two days each week of red (e.g. beef or lamb) and white meat (e.g. chicken). The remaining three days of the week I typically devote to meat-free meals – these must still include other protein sources, however, and for this I look to beans, lentils, eggs, seeds, nuts, and tofu.

Bringing a baby up as vegan

What is a vegan diet?

How to make a vegan Christmas feast

We’ve put together a smashing vegan feast to get your tastebuds tingling – from Christmas nibbles to delicious puddings – we’ve got you covered.

How to make almond milk

Nut milk is super-easy to make at home and is amazingly versatile – splash it over your cereal or porridge or add a dash to your favourite mugs of tea and coffee.