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    Re: Vitamin K for newborns (UK)

    Bumping as the bean is due to arrive any day now. (Holy cow!)

    Franksmommy and Frosty: where did you find the oral/liquid? I tried H&B, but they only had tablets or gelcaps, etc. Been hunting...
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    Re: How was your vegan pregnancy?

    I'm 30 weeks here (yay to see other vegan mommies to be!) and have had pretty good luck so far. I was absolutely exhausted for most of the first trimester, but bounced back about 14 weeks or so. ...
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    Vitamin K for newborns (UK)

    Just wondering what other vegan parents' experiences are with this. The Vegan Society says that the oral dose is not vegan, because it's in gelatin capsules. However, on a non-veg forum, I was...
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    Re: help craving eggs-pregnant!

    This was my suggestion as well. I hated scrambled eggs as an omnivore, but my (non-pregant :p) husband loves tofu scramble with nooch to satisfy his eggy cravings. :)

    I'm 18 weeks too, btw! (EDD...
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    Re: Marks and Spencer's vegan list

    Oh my goodness, how did I miss this about jelly bean eggs before? I just put vegan jellybeans on my "things I have to buy when we're in America" list. :p
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    Re: Marks and Spencer's vegan list

    Link to updated list: http://health.marksandspencer.com/uploads/pdfs/vegan.pdf (the only link I could find in this thread was quite old) There are a couple of things that I'm doubtful about still,...
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    Re: Spaghetti Hoops no longer fortified

    *gigglesnort* We have those occasionally with my nanny munchkins. I think they are fortified, but we just get them to spell. Found some pots yesterday, but no B12 either. I can get some Hoop...
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    Re: Spaghetti Hoops no longer fortified

    Ooh...cool. Something to explore when we are in Scotland!

    Twinkle, thanks for that. I may check that out. :)
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    Re: Spaghetti Hoops no longer fortified

    Ooh, what is Scotmid?
  10. Thread: Oxfordshire

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    Re: Oxfordshire

    Heh. They have some nice bits, but it's becoming more and more of a bedroom community. (can't remember the British phrase..people only sleep here and go to Oxford for everything else). It's the...
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    Spaghetti Hoops no longer fortified

    Okay, I know they are rubbish, but they really hit the spot sometimes. I noticed about 2 or 3 weeks ago that they no longer contain the B vitamins. The spaghetti does (and I think all of the kids...
  12. Thread: Vegusto

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    Re: Vegusto?

    I think we've only had the melty Cheezly once maybe, and aside from the no-soya Cheezly, I didn't like any of them. This one was not completely repulsive, but I'd not buy it again if it weren't for...
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    Re: Oxfordshire

    Yeah, Alpha Bar is still there. It's fairly small though, and next to that nasty butcher :(

    Are you from Oxford harpy? We're in Abingdon, but I work in the city each day.
  14. Thread: Vegusto

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    Re: Vegusto?

    jj thanks for that link. We just scored 3 kinds this week from Vx.

    I thought the melty was gnarly, but the man liked in on his pizza and on bread. He thought it was fab.

    The dezent (sorta...
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    Re: Vegusto?

    Sorry, yes, it vegan cheese I'm interested in. They made some mock meats though as well (all vegan). Here's their UK page: http://www.vegusto.co.uk/

    Will post back if I ever get to try some. :D
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    Vegusto

    Has anyone tried this yet? They have some in at Vx in London, and I'm hoping to pick some up next week (assuming it's still in stock!)
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    Re: Cuba, vegan style?

    Thanks for the tip. I have Googled. We're going to be in Havana only probably, since we're just there for a few days, so hopefully we will be ok. I'll have to check out that book!
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    Cuba, vegan style?

    Has anyone been to Cuba? I found one old thread on the subject, but I'm wondering if anyone's been there in the past few years, and could share what sort of culinary experiences they had?

    We're...
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    Re: Veganism - "it plays a small role in my life"?

    This is the sort of along the lines I was thinking. On a normal, everyday day, I don't think a lot about being vegan, it's just part of who I am.
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    Re: Co-op iced buns and doughnuts are vegan

    Dude. They only cost 85p! :p
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    Re: Co-op iced buns and doughnuts are vegan

    Thanks for posting this. Do you know if this is at all Co-Ops? Ours used to label the doughnuts as suitable for vegetarians/vegans, but they don't any longer. I have noticed that some of the pies...
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    Re: I want to get involved...chicago??

    I don't mean to steer people away, but if you visit www.veganrepresent.com, they have a very active Chicago area set of folks. (also veganchicago.com)
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    Re: Oxfordshire

    Hey I just saw this now. How cool to find some more vegheads in Oxfordshire(ish).

    I'd definitely recommend the Royal Blenheim. We've been there just twice now, but the food was great both times,...
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    Re: Pure margarine/cheese slices/triangles

    Ew. I found these a couple of weeks ago, and couldn't even finish one slice. They were awful, simply awful. Even my non-picky husband didn't like them. I don't really dig the Tofutti either, but...
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    Re: Holland and Barrett

    I didn't get the Celtic one with the mints, but the mostly white box "Dairy Free" one, for the man (I'm eating a rabbit, vegan of course :p).
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    Re: SSOV shop in London

    Hm. When we were there, there was a sort of cupcake/fairy cake thing in the cake stand by the till, with a small sign saying "whoopies". Maybe they had sold out of the whoopies or something (there...
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    Re: Vegan Pub Lunch

    Oh, I was just going to post about Royal Blenheim. My other half and I were there the same night as beanstew, and it was very yum. The man and I liked it enough that we even went back just this...
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    Re: SSOV shop in London

    <<<was disappointed to see that the "whoopies" were not whoopie pies:
    http://www.yorkblog.com/explorer/img/Whoopie%20Pie.jpg
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    Re: Veg Dietitian

    Yeah, I thought about location after I'd submitted the post. I'm in Oxford, but I'm in London once a week for a course, and traveling to many places is not too much trouble (Brum, Reading, even say...
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    Re: PingPong dimsum

    That was fast. They had a ready-list of vegan items, even:



    Sorry about the formatting...tried to clean up my copy/paste a bit there. Looks like a fairy decent selection.
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    Veg Dietitian

    Has anyone here seen a dietitian that they'd recommend? I'm having some minor health issues, and am being recommended to take medication, but wonder if I can shore up my diet a bit perhaps and take...
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    Re: PingPong dimsum

    Sent off an email, so we'll see. There are like 30 of them in greater London, I think. £10 free = not a bad deal either. :D
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    Re: SSOV shop in London

    Yep. Was more curious about the tea, milkshakes, etc. Maybe they can make those there because it's not "cooking"?
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    Re: Superdrug shops

    Hm. I was trying to find an image on their site, but no luck. There are maybe 4 different varieties that come in blue tubes like the one shown in the middle of the pic below. I think all are...
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    Re: SSOV shop in London

    Vegan KitKat:
    http://www.nestle.ca/en/products/brands/KitKat/dark.htm
    (I bought the Paskesz too :p)

    We had a good time in the shop, the man bought some shoes and a hat; looking forward to the...
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    Re: Superdrug shops

    Ooh. I haven't had these in ages. They used to be owned by Philip Morris/Altria (aka "tobacco selling whores of the devil"), but they spun off a couple of years ago. Every time I look here though,...
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    PingPong dimsum

    I just got a freebie (£10..see here: http://www.pingpongdimsum.com/loyalty-card) from this place. Has anyone had experience there or know what's vegan?
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    Re: Superdrug shops

    Do you mean like, actual Oreos (they have vegan ones in North America), or just black cookies with white stuff in them?
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    Re: Pogo Squabbling

    Ditto. I would be extremely uncomfortable going to a "vegan" place that I knew was holding meat in the freezer. It sounds though, that the group that threw out the food may not have acted very...
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    Re: Boots vegan sandwich

    Utterly Nutterly is the butternut squash one. They've started just in the past couple of months, stocking it daily at our local Boots. It's yummy, but it's taken the place of the Thin Lizzie (the...
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