VeganMoFo

We have our five winners! Congratulation, e–mails are on the way! I loved reading everyones answers, they made me feel all warm and cosy and excited about snow, mince pies, Christmas & hot chocolate!

Caroline Cotterall: I love cold crisp but dry days when the ground is all frosty and the leaves are orange. Snuggling up in front of the fire and drinking copious amounts of hot chocolate.

Alexandra Turner: Getting the tree and decorations out, the clocks going back (an extra hour in bed!), lots of nice food and family / friend get togethers. Father Christmas is beginning to make a reappearance in my house as I have two year old twins. Looking forward to leaving out mince pieces and carrots for reindeers. Also my birthday is in winter (just after New Year) and I’m now planning my winter wedding that’s happening in January 2014.

Rachel: I know it’s silly to have a “season” for eating things, because really you can eat whatever whenever, but I feel like winter-time has the best food and drink – pumpkin stuff, nog, gingery things. So I guess my favourite thing about winter is food!

J Applebee: My favourite thing about winter: Spending the extra-long nights with people I love. I adore waking up to hot crumpets and jam, warm smiles and hotter kisses. Makes slugging to work through the wind and rain worth it just to have that first.

Sal: My favourite thing about winter is easy – CHRISTMAS!! I love everything about it. And of course – Winter is Snow Fairy season!

Are you feeling a little tired after spending October cooking, eating, blogging & commenting up a storm for Vegan MoFo? Are you as in love with everything LUSH as I am? Do you live in the UK or Ireland? If the answer to all of these questions is Yes, Yes, YES then boy do we have an awesome competition for you!

LUSH have generously offered to give away five, yes, FIVE, Winter Wishes giftboxes to you, our lovely MoFo blog readers. As I said before I’m a little bit in love with LUSH. I currently have three different LUSH shower gels on the go (Twilight, Happy Hippy & Snow Fairy) and my favourite way to wind down after a stressful day is a relaxing glitter-filled bubble bath using one of my favourite bubble bars. LUSH are one of my favourite companies ever. They’re super animal friendly – most of their products are vegan, including their entire new make up range. Nothing is ever tested on animals by them or their suppliers and they’re involved in loads of wonderful campaigns, from human rights to animal rights and beyond.

This great giftbox includes a little bit of everything; two lovely soaps, including the one I have in my bathroom right now, Snow Globe, the all-new and super exciting orange juice, plum & cinnamon infused Ponche shower gel which is sure to perk you up on a cold winter morning, and an Each Peach massage bar which will definitely help you relax & wind down after all of this strenuous MoFoing.

To enter just leave a comment below before 3pm GMT tomorrow telling us what your favourite thing about Winter is. Please be sure to leave a valid e-mail address so that we can contact you if you win. The winner will be randomly selected and announced after the giveaway has ended. This competition is only open to anyone living in the UK & Ireland.

I couldn’t really narrow down a theme for today so I’m gonna go renegade with my roundup!

The first and most epic post to catch my eye today was from Kittee over at Cake Maker To The Stars. I don’t even know what to say about these sugar skulls other than OMG! Wow! What the hell? Kittee I think you’re a genius and I’d like to come and live with you please?!

I wish that I had even a quarter of the patience it must’ve taken to make these!

This super cute star covered pear galette made by mama et de bébé hawk looks more like something I could make. I love the use of pears rather than apples in this traditional dessert and I bet that they were super delicious.

I love vegan cheese. Whether it’s Cheezly, Daiya, Follow Your Heart, Vegusto, Teese, Sheese or homemade I’ll eat it. I’d never heard of Ste Martaen before though but now, after reading Star City Vegan’s post, I’m sure I’d love their cheeses too.

I’ll admit that I can’t really understand most of this next post but a picture speaks a thousand words and all that! This picture’s clearly saying “Eat me, I’m delicious”! This Avocado Chimichurri Bruschetta  from twoodledrum really does look like the perfect lunch.

Mandee from Cupcake Kitteh made Buckwheat Flour Pancakes today and I think that these would also make an amazing lunch. Or brunch. Or breakfast, dinner or dessert! Hell, I’d definitely eat these at any time of day. Perfection.

We have our winners! Congratulations Jo and Brooke, e-mails are on the way!

Halloween is slowly creeping up on us and this is the time of year that I most want candy. Trick or Treating isn’t as much of a tradition in Europe as it is in America but the idea of going door to door filling up a bag with sweets and chocolate still excites me. Honestly, if I thought anyone would answer their door to me on the 31st & hand over vegan treats I’d definitely give it a go!

Today’s giveaway comes from Goody Good Stuff, this UK based vegetarian company make tasty traditional style gummy sweets minus the gelatine and you’ll be pleased to hear that this one’s open to anyone living in the UK & Ireland, Europe & the US.

The Cola Breeze are my favourites closely followed by Sour Fruit Salads, yum!

Goody Good Stuff are offering two people the chance to win a Halloween Goody Bag filled with four bags of vegan sweets and a cuddly version of their mascot Kobi Koala, cute!

To enter just leave a comment below before 4pm BST tomorrow telling us what your favourite treat is. Please make sure to include a valid e-mail address so that we can get in contact with you. The winner will be randomly selected and announced after the giveaway has ended. The competition is open to anyone living in the UK & Ireland, Europe or the USA.

 

Okay, I’ll admit it, I’m a little nosey! One of the reasons I like reading blogs is that I get a little snapshot of your life, whether you’ve posted a photo of your kitchen, a review of the latest cookbook you bought, or a photo of your lunch, I’m interested! Wait… do I sound creepy? Whatever, no take backs!

Today I’ve been super into reading about what you’ve been eating for lunch and where you’ve been eating it.

Sasha from One Small Vegan talked about her love of wraps today and she showed us this fine example. I’d come over and eat the hell outa this tasty looking Lentil, Daiya, Hummus, Cucumber & Lettuce Wrap anytime!

Another person who ate their lunch at home today was Dianne over at Veggiegirl, she whipped out some leftover Curried Pumpkin Soup which looks just perfect for the cooler Autumn weather.

Lisa from Vegan Culinary Crusade made this healthy looking lunch-to-go. This Broccoli, Chickpea Quinoa Salad includes my favourite veg and I love the idea of layering everything up like this, so pretty!

Helen from Vegtastic took the delicious Red-Lentil Cauliflower Curry from Veganomicon to work today. I bet this made the break room smell deeelicious.

I can’t quite work out whether this was a lunch, dinner or brunch but judging by the lighting I’ll guess lunch, erm, it fits in better with my theme okay?! This veggie filled pasta salad served on a bed of kale from A Soy Bean is definitely something I’d happily scoff down at lunchtime.

Lazy Smurf is lucky enough to live in one of my all-time favourite places, Austin. Today she grabbed a Thanksgiving Plate from the hot bar at Wheatsville and it looks epic. You can get this any Wednesday in October and if you’re lucky enough to live within, say, 6 hours of Austin please go and eat this for me!

Last but by no means least Vegan Food Rocks is lucky enough to work right by Spike’s Junkyard Dogs in Boston meaning that she can get a great vegan lunch to go, and, to make things even better, if there’s a birthday in the workplace the boss buys everyone lunch!! Whaaat?! I wanna work with you grrrl! This Irish Setter Dog topped with Sauerkraut & Ketchup with extra House Mustard and Relish looks right up my street.