Day two baby!!
Brought a friend with me on the second day, shes not vegan, not even close, but she does have a lactose intolerance and has been trying to look for alternatives for dairy, she has also seen how often dairy comes up in the ingredients for things so in a way understands the struggle of a vegan.
She wanted to use the day to try and learn some tricks for living without dairy, and i took my chance to maybe open her eyes a little.
I was wearing my new T-shirt from Ethics and Antics so being me took the opportunity for a little photo! I LOVE a long line T-shirt!! So this was a perfect match for me!!
We started the day much as i had on Saturday, food time! I'd had my eye on a few other stall after I had Happy Maki the day before. We settled for a Vegan Doner from What the Pita and it was AMAZING!! Serious stuff. I got the meal deal, which was a Doner, Drink and Baklava!
Que crazy picture of me enjoying this bad boy!!
Next we had a look around a few stalls and then we popped over to the Cinema to watch Forks over Knives, I've seen this before but it was great to hear that my friend wanted to watch it, as its all based around the health of eating a plant based diet with lots of evidence to back it up. I think its a great documentary to watch for anyone who wants to live a healthier life.
We went up to the Veganuary room after to hear a talk on "life after cheese" which was great for my friend, and lots of people in the room shared cheesy tips!
Keeping the Dairy free theme of the day we went and queued up for Yorica, now if you live in London and you haven't heard of Yorica? Where have you been!! This place is totally free from....if you're allergic to something, you can probably eat here!! Cookies and Cream ice cream, always a pleasure never a chore! As creamy as their ice cream is, its not sickly. (no moo here!)
Then my FAVE part of the day, we went to watch a talk by the Fat Gay Vegan, He's a vegan blogger with a difference, the difference being, he tells you about all the good food and he is so passionate about veganism without being preachy or putting people down (he's pretty funny too!)
He gave me some great tips on keeping my blog alive.
Again such a great day!! Thanks Vegan Life Live!!
Keep it positive
Nessa
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Saturday morning i got up early (early for a Saturday Morning) and jumped on the tube up to Ally Pally! (Alexandra Palace to most people) for Vegan Life Live!
I'd had tickets for this for a while so was super excited to go! My bestie from the North had tickets too, for the Sunday, but ended up not being able to come, she gave me her ticket so i'll have a second blog up about Sunday too!!
First things first, downloaded the VLL program and tried to make a plan on what i wanted to see...
My plan looked like this: (I say looked cos it did change!)
Saturday:
12:15: Clea Grady (From Veganuary)
12:30: Cinema - Food Choice
1pm: KingCooksDaily
2:45: How to eat well with Veganuary
5pm: Cinema - Ghost in our Machine
First things first: goody bag!! (not pictured Ape, coconut curls, i ate these on the way in as i missed breakfast!)
Second thing: Foooooooodddd!! Happy Maki
Straight to happy Maki!! I've been following Happy Maki on Instagram for a while now and by God do i love sushi! After putting my goodie bag into my tote i made my way straight to the back to find their stall, as soon as i get in the queue it doubled, and from what i saw the rest of the day, it didn't look like it got any smaller! For those who don't know Happy Maki They are a vegan Sushi stall that have been making their way around Veg festivals for a while now....but the exciting news is they are opening a restaurant down in Brighton (another other vegan hub of England)
I had the Fully Loaded: It was awesome, super tasty and really filling! I highly recommend going to see them!
There were so many cool stalls at the event, too many to do a in depth section on all of them or this blog will be far too long for anyone to get through, so here's a quick run down of some of the samples i had mooching around.
Morgan's Brew - I had a taste of the green tea gin. I'm not really a massive gin lover! But add green tea and i'm excited!!
Treevitalise - When i heard "Made for hangovers" I tried some....i'm sure its good for you, but i think i'll just stick to drinking regular H2O.
Mobile Massage were there for the day, and I've been hitting the gym for a few weeks now, so i decided to treat myself to a massage, they have a deal where you pay anything from £10 to £20 depending on what you feel the massage was worth. It was a great 20 minutes of heaven, they lady who massaged me did my back, shoulders and head and i felt every knot worked out.
As for my plan, it kind of went out of the window, The room by about 11:30 was so busy you pretty much had to shuffle everywhere.
I did manage to get to see Clea from Veganuary which was great, she talked through why she became vegan, and how she'd been veggie most of her life. And what i thought was most important, was how we need to be positive on social media, as Vegans, I also think this goes for everyone. There's so much negativity online, and negativity breeds negativity. Vegans are known for compassion and we need to show that to everyone and everything. You'll never win friends by shouting at them.
Later I went to see the how to eat well with the founders of Veganuary, they talked a lot about Dr Michael Greger's book "How Not to Die" Including giving out a hand out on "The Daily Dozen" (laminated no less, ohh fancy)
I missed @Kingcookdaily But that's ok, just means i'll have to take a trip to Shoreditch to try his food.
With the 2 movies i wanted to watch i was worried i'd miss out on other things if i sat for an hour and a half to watch them and figured i could watch them another time. So most of my time was spent checking out all the stalls...I bumped into Wear Your Voice And i was wearing a t-shirt of theirs which i got from York Veg Fest.
So i went on the hunt for some more Vegan tops. and i came across Ethics & Antics and grabbed an absolute steal of a bargain! (picture to come on the next blog!)
Phew that was long, hopefully you made it this far! I'll be writing up Sunday antics soon!
Keep it positive
Nessa
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