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Loads of vegan stuff in Spar these days. Not just weird hippy smelly shops.
I fully endose these
Anything by Taifun is good. With some chips / mash / hash browns and some veg maybe.. winner.
If you like a roast..
This I found the best veg meat thing. But havent tried Tofurky. People also like that.
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Try to look for cashew cheese. It's currently my favourite thing. Mostly made by small producers and accordingly very expensive, but delicious. Most of them have an on-line presence. My favourites are Kinda Co. and I Am NUT OK!, but there are lots of others--Mouse's Favourite, Tyne Chease, etc.
You could also try looking in on a vegan shop, e.g. Green Bay in North End Road. They have a large selection of that kind of stuff.
You also have a vegan restaurant quite close to you, in Wallington:
http://www.the-brook.co.uk/location-wallington/
They've moved their main operation to Hackney but have just (yesterday) re-opened in Wallington for the summer.
I can't recommend it, as I still haven't been, but people report good things.
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Try lentils to replace minced beef - a couple of tins of lentils into a ragu to make a bolognese, you can then use that in a lasagna as well, or could make it into a chilli. Love the texture from the lentils and if you make a good soffrito it will be really tasty.
Or pulses to make a veggie chilli, chickpeas have such good texture as well, they're essential.
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In a somewhat unprecedented move I've decided to try and eat Vegan for the next month or two to try and break my routine of eating the same unhealthy shit all the time and hopefully drop some weight at the same time by excluding myself from pretty much everything I would eat normally.
I'm not much for veg heavy meals thanks to a childhood of boiled to mush roast dinners such that the smell of boiled carrots is enough to turn my stomach to this day, so consider me firmly in the 'I want stuff that's vegan but pretends its not' camp until I get a bit more used to it and I'll supplement with the handful of veg that I do enjoy when cooked properly.
so really healthy processed food i guess is the step i'm looking to take first.
any good recommendations on places to shop and good brands/foodstuffs to try that I can get my hands on somewhere along my cs7 commute from clerkenwell to morden.
I basically went through every item in the vegan category on ocado for this weeks shop and have a handful of veggie burgers, sausages, chicken pieces, falafels and wraps and some fake bacon/ham/cheese. while everything has been palatable so far I think variety will be the only thing to keep me on track after a couple of weeks. so what are the buy this/not that top tips for a n00b like myself?