Vegan Ribs goes to Sky Apple

Aloha Vegans,

So this is a short and sweet post, basically declaring my love for Sky Apple in Heaton, Newcastle. My stunner of a fried Rachel took me for breakfast and it was AMAZING. 

Sky apple is a veggie/Vegan cafe, the walls are painted like a sky and it has full on good vibes running through it. The staff were lovely, the food was amazing and very good value. I also took several slices of cake home with me, because trust, the cake is OUT OF THIS WORD ...its AMAZING

BREAKFASTTTTTT

After an extremely satisfying breakfast, we went next door to the deli, where the shop assistant was quite possibly the funniest guy I've ever met, he gave me free tasters of all the yummy food, which included home made cashew cheese and cake!! It was AMAZING

I got carried away....I got ALL the cake!!

To conclude, SKY APPLE is a MUST visit if you're in Newcastle,  for the cake, the breakfast and most importantly the hilarious guy at the deli!!!

Much Love

Vegan Ribs

xx

what did I eat today?- January 26th

January 26th

Aloha and happy Monday :)

Hope you all feel refreshed after the weekend!

Breakfast:

One of my cinnamon swirls and a herbal..just screams healthy..haha!

Lunch:

Marmite bagel and some hola hoops! Again not healthy!!

Tea:

Since I've eaten rubbish all day I thought it was best to cook some yummy food so I made a lovely batch of gnocchi. Its dead cheap and super tasty, plus very quick to make!

Ingredients:

Gnocchi (make sure its vegan!)

Jar of tomato sauce (extra lazy)

Veg: Mushrooms, onions, peppers, garlic, kale and whatever else you have lying around!

Fry those veggies in some fry light!

LAZY

one bloomin tasty sauce!

add some gnocchi!

Serve

feeling greedy? Add some linda Mc cartney sausages :)




So there you have it! Yummy but lazy tea!

Hope you are all well! January is dissapearing! Veganuary peeps have ou decided if youre going to stay vegan?

Much Love

VeganRibs

xxx

What did I eat today? January 15th

January 15th

Aloha
happy thursday :)
one more get up left! Time is flying!!

Breakfast

Standard marmite in toast!
Im so uncreative!!!

Break

The chocolate rice cakes are epic!!

Lunch

Salad box from the canteen
lettuce, onion, tomato, cous cous (so good they named it twice) peppers, pasta,carrot, croutons salad cream

Tea

Salad, Mediterranean bake, tomato pasta

Another nice day

Much love

VeganRibs

Xxxx

What did I eat today?.. January 3rd

Day 3 of this blog and I've had quite the interest. Nearly 1k page visits. Thank you to everyone who has been so supportive. The vegan community really is a magical one. Everyone is just Lovely!

Foood!:

Breakfast:

I slept in..like really slept in. Only one more lie in until I'm back at work..so I'm really making the most of it!!..So for a quick healthy breakfast I made a smoothie. I unlike others don't have a recipe for this. I just throw in loads of fruit, spinach, bit of soy milk and some juice, blend and boom..good to go. In this one I had mango, blueberries, spinach, raspberry, grapes, pineapple, apple, melon (basically I have a shelf in my freezer full of frozen fruit so I can just make a quick one)

Lunch

I've spent much of the day at my computer doing marking and planning for work, so I have a very dull lunch (actually a strong favorite) of Marmite sadwiches, asda pretend monster munch and some bourbons. Exciting!

Tea

So my final meal of the day was two portabello mushrooms on a bed of spinach with some sweet chili and some of last nights pasta  (waste nothing I say!!). Also had a brownie! Lovely!!

This did fill me up!!

Tomorrow is my last day of the holidays, This makes me sad, however, It does mean that I will be baking as my office loves some nice treats!! 

Hope you're all having a top weekend! 

Much love

VeganRibs x

The Start: Veganuary

Happy New Year! 

Welcome to my Vegan blog!!

In October I went to Vegfest, a vegan festival in London and this is really where the vegan journey began. I decided to go as I was already a very committed vegetarian. With 12 years under my belt I was bored of the constant cheese and egg substitute for everything as a veggie, my cooking lacked imagination and it just wasn't a challenge any more. So I thought id go to Vegfest for some inspiration.
I had no idea that it would be a life changing event. It was such an awesome event and it was there that I learnt of the vegan chocolate, vegan cheese..vegan everything world!!! I literally had no excuse!
I met a lovely lady on the Veganuary stall.She asked if I would sign up to the challenge, so after a long conversation about what alcohol i could still have and learning that pasta is vegan..I signed up!!!

 I couldn't wait until January so I started immediately.

The first few days were tough, I fainted on a bus and felt constantly hungry. I also noticed that I was bloated!! haha
Everyone around me told me to give up and start again in January, but I physically couldn't. I HAD to be a vegan. Id made that commitment, I believed in the ethics and I did not for one moment want to carry on putting my money in the industries that harm and exploit animals.  So after  doing some research  (literally the day I got sent home because I fainted on a bus) I decided not to give up and go for it.

The internet is a blooming magical place. I found a facebook group called 'what fat vegans eat'. Since I am fat and vegan, it was a perfect fit, the constant flow of amazing food porn and inspiration made it so much easier. Like who knew that Oreos are vegan? and crisps? and biscuit butter?

I thought  being vegan was going to be no fun, but I was wrong, there is so much out there!  A few months on I feel fantastic, still fat, but a little less fat, more energy and just less of a burden to carry around with me. I know its going to be hard at times and I know that I will spend the rest of my life having people say..but BACON though!..but the benefits are so worth it!

I am rambling! to my imaginary audience..anyways. This blog post is merely to say that anyone can do it, Have a go and try vegan this January! I'm really hoping I can keep up blogging this year, so if someone is reading this, please carry on reading this as I hope to post more food porn, recipes and general things I discover along the way!!!

I  shall finish with a picture of my new years vegan breakfast:

Toast, Veg sausages, Hash browns, Tomatoes, Mushrooms, Spaghetti Hoops, ketchup and sweet chili sauce

NOM NOM NOM