Vegan Products Showcase 2009 winners announced!
Featuring the best of the vegan lifestyle today.
The 4 categories are:
- Best Vegan Food Product - Frys chicken burger
- Best Vegan Non-Food Product - Neon Collectives Groove Booties
- Best Vegan Project - Safer Medicines Campaign
- Best Dressed Campaigns Stall - Seal Protection Action Group
The winners of the 4 categories will each receive a certificate as well as a FREE PAGE ADVERT in Off the Hoof during 2009.
And in addition the winners of the Best Dressed Campaigns Stall will receive a £100 Cash prize!!!
Two Highly Commended in each category will win a FREE ¼ page advert in an upcoming issue of Off The Hoof.
Entries Include
Best Vegan Food Product
Seagreens - a most remarkeable classic food ingredient which adds flavour and goodness to most everyday recipes and is a useful alternative to salt. see www.seagreens.com for more info about this wondrous creation
Organic Connexion have been producing Organic Vegan Food since 2004. and only use the finest Organic Vegan ingredients for their products. They have decided to supply the trade with a very special product. Irenes Handmade Organic Brazil nut roast. Possibly the best brazil nut roast in the world!
Yaoh Organic Hemp Protein Powder - truly a master amongst champions, the Yaoh organic hemp protein powder contains 49% protein in a very digestabale form, making redundant once and for all the old cliched question every vegan suffers - 'where do you get your protein?' Answer - hemp!!
Essential Dark Chocolate Spread - Made from conscientiously cultivated cocoa beans from farms in Ghana. Free from artificial additives, this certified organic and Fairtrade vegan chocolate spread brings the ultimate peace of mind to discerning customers.The Essential dark chocolate spread is lusciously dark, rich and silky smooth and accredited by the Vegan Society.
Bute Island Sheese Garlic and Herb Creamy Sheese - absoluelty awesome vegan sheese product that has swept the board at the Great Taste 08 Awards, getting a Gold Medal! Sublime texture and flavour makes this one of tthe greatest vegan product sin the entire world - along with the rest of the Sheese range - See www.buteisland.com
Plamil's new delicious luxury Rum & Raisin organic chocolate joins the range which combines 'free from' and ethics. Plamil's own factory is powered by 100% renewable energy, where this latest scrumptious chocolate is made from farm co-operative cocoa to the highest vegan standards possible and packed in biodegradable packaging. www.plamilfoods.co.uk
Conscious Chocolates are handmade, handwrapped vegan chocolates. All their chocolates are free from sugar, gluten, soya and pesticides. These raw bars are as healthy as they are delicious; packed with theobromine, antioxidants and flavanols. The knowledge that chocolate can be good for you may come as a revelation. See www.consciouschocolate.co.uk for more.
Fallen Angel Brewery's latest beer "Gardeners Delight" is a wonderful dark malt bock style beer but at only 4% ABV is one you can enjoy easily.
Naturally carbonated and made without the use of any chemicals, in particular no isinglass or finings of any sort and made with both Sussex and German hops; you can drink this with a clear conscience that it is environmentally sound.
FRY’S new Chicken-Style Burgers are approved by The Vegan Society - they are protein rich and free from meat, fish, egg, dairy, cholesterol and hydrogenated fats. They contain no artificial preservatives, flavours or colourings and are Kosher, Shuddha and Halaal and are recommended as a BEST BUY in “The Ethical Consumer”. WINNER
Amaru's HemPower Instant ‘Human Bio-Fuel’ is an innovative first offering from new Ethical Hemp brand AMARU. Uniquely delicious and creamy, dairy-free HemPower is a ‘whole-snack,’ with 17g of shelled hemp seed in each 50g serving, and takes just one minute to make with hot water – HemPower - convenience with content
Sweet Freedom NEW Natural Vegan Honey Alternative!Delicious and made from 100% fruit – just apples, grapes and carob! Ideal on toast and porridge, in coffee and drinks and anywhere you would use honey or highly processed sugar! Registered with The Vegan Society, 25% less calories than sugar (use 25% less) and less than honey / golden syrup. As it has a low GL it’s a good choice for diabetics as part of a healthy diet. Kids love the taste! www.sweetfreedom.co.uk
Best Vegan Non Food Product
Lavera Basis Hand Cream 125ml, £5.60
With Organic Almond & Shea Butter.
This natural hand cream with almond oil & shea butter protects and moisturises your hands, even under conditions of severe stress. Chamomile extract calms and cares for the skin.
Freerangers
Star Shoes and Star Bag - the shoes feature padded insoles with breathable uppers and the bag has long straps so it can be used as a shoulder bag too. Comes in claret and rose - bags of space and bags of style for your laptop, books, magazines etc!!! www.freerangers.co.uk
Majik Blankit skin care
Tel: 01424 421907
Acmella and Almond smoothing and firming daytime face cream. Retail: £7.99
A light moisturising daily face cream. Formulated with carefully selected natural and Organic oils and butters. Other active ingredients include Vitamin E, Extract of Acmella bud, Plant based collagen and Organic Cocoa Butter. These wonderful ingredients have been proven to offer restructuring, firming, smoothing, moisture-binding and softening qualities.
Secret Society Of Vegans, glow-in-the-dark t-shirt! Featuring the coolest design you can find on a t-shirt at a the Brighton Vegan Fayre! Be vegan and proud, even with the lights off!
Neon Collective - Groove Booties - These gorgeous red booties from vegan label Olsenhaus are killer heels that didn't cost a life. Made from supple microfiber faux-suede and splashed with a unique silver paint effect. Each pair is a complete one-off and will add a little rock chick to any outfit. Available to buy at www.NeonCollective.com - the UK's freshest vegan boutique. WINNER
Michael's Originals Washing Up Luffa Scourer is an inspirational, environmentally responsible alternative to the synthetic nylon scourer. Made from organically grown luffa on a family farm in the Philippines, they combine a passion for the environment with the celebration of traditional practices and skills. Totally biodegradable, they will save landfill and change the way we wash up.
Earth Friendly Products ECOS Laundry Liquid with Magnolia and Lily essential oils has only natural, sustainable plant-based ingredients. Its vegan formula is so concentrated that it offers a considerable saving versus other green laundry liquids. With a built-in fabric softener, ECOS cleans effectively, smells fabulous with no green compromise!
I Am Natural Organic Skin Care - Organic Cocoa Butter & Orange Tin £9.50 Hmmm it smells so good you'll want to eat it! A delicious moisturiser for body, hands, lips and hair with organic sweet orange essential oil and nourishing vitamins A, B & C. Total radiance & shine with just three pure organic ingredients. Vegan simplicity at its best!
Sedlescombe Organic Vineyard - 2006 Sedlescombe Cuvée Pinot Noir Rosé Brut -a quality English Sparkling Wine, Organic (Soil Association) + Registered Vegan. Made by Roy Cook & Will Davenport, this is a Pinot Noir, the classic Champagne variety and the variety 'Kerner' both produce excellent fruity acidity, the basic requirement for producing top quality sparkling wines. Combining these two 88% and 12% respectively created this Traditional Method bubbly from this superb vintage.
From Arbonne International - Virtual Illusion Make up Primer £20.60, 29ml An advanced Primer which creates a flawless canvas for make-up application. A blend of vitamins, skin-perfecting pigments, advanced cushioning and anti-ageing ingredients work in harmony to help tone, smooth and minimise the visual appearance of fine lines, wrinkles and enlarged pores. The result is a velvety, matte, radiant finish.
Best Vegan Project
Safer Medicines Campaign is an independent patient safety organisation of doctors and scientists whose concern is whether animal testing, today, is more harmful than helpful to public health and safety. Please ask your MP to sign EDM 569, calling for a comparison of animal tests with sophisticated human biology-based tests." WINNER
Freerangers
New website www.vegansporans.co.uk - 10 designs which are proving popular world wide for day wear and highland dress wear like Burns Night, Hogmonay and Highland Weddings! These vegan sporans have travelled as far afield as the USA and Australia!!
Shellfish Network - Shellfish are not apples or oranges; they are living creatures. The Shellfish Network aims therefore to increase public awareness of the fact that shellfish are capable of experiencing pain and stress, and to stop the cruelty involved in and eventually bring an end to, the slaughter of shellfish for human consumption.
The Food Magicians teach and inspire children to cook simple, wholesome vegan dishes whilst having fun! Through our cookery ‘Spell Book’, the parents guide to cooking with love and the ‘Magic Cooking Club’ workshops, Conch Press is inspiring children, parents and schools across the country about the magic of vegan food.
Off The Hoof - Brand new vegan lifetsyle magazine out every 3 months covering a wide range of vegan topics including food, lifestyle and music, not for the faint hearted. Awesome!! www.offthehoof.co.uk
