5 of the best vegan restaurants in Cheltenham and Gloucester

1. The Golden Heart, Birdlip One of our favourite places to go for a delicious and hearty homemade pub lunch. A beautiful 16th century traditional Cotswold inn with log burners. They don’t just have a couple of vegan options, oh no, they have an entire vegan menu full of delicious meals from burgers to roasts. … Read more

How to use freeze-dried fruit in vegan recipes

Working with different ingredients is always interesting and working with something totally new to us often presents a challenge.  Freeze dried fruit is something that I only started using when I began my healthy journey around seven years ago.  Before this I had never used a freeze dried fruit powder or eaten a freeze dried … Read more

21 easy vegan sandwich filling ideas for lunchboxes (without soy or added sugar)

Yesterday I was speaking to someone about how I am now 100% plant based and consume no animal products at all.  Before this year I was vegetarian for 5 years, having previously been veggie as a youngster too, but now I’ve cut all animal products out.  My husband has been meat and dairy free (an … Read more

My vegan family meal planner and dinner menu

This week I have decided to create a vegan family meal planner for our dinner times… in the evening. I thought I’d better state it’s for the evening as I’ve always called the three meal times “breakfast, dinner and tea”! When I got with my husband he called them breakfast, lunch and dinner… Of course … Read more

Vinnie’s Eatery review: Plant based restaurant in Cheltenham

2023 update: Sad to see, but Vinnie’s Eatery has closed. We had a kid-free Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning the weekend just gone, so I finally got a chance to take Ben to Vinnie’s Eatery in Cheltenham.  I’d been once before last summer with a friend when attending the very first Cheltenham Vegan Fair and … Read more