Announcing revised recipes for 2012

We are pleased to announce that our burger, sosage and hemp mixes now contain half the salt.

And, unlike many other convenient vegan staples, they still contain no palm oil, a source of major concern for the environment, and for the people and other animals loosing their forest homes. Visit saynotopalmoil.com

In fact Veggies Mixes contain no added fats at all, nor sugar or artificial anything.

Our mixes are handmade in Nottingham, in our dedicated vegan kitchen, with organically grown ingredients, including wholewheat breadcrumb, oats (from Cheshire) & soya (from France).

To find out why ours are probably the most ethical mixes available visit our Ethical Burgers & Sosages page.

Burger Mix
Ingredients

*96% organically grown

*wholewheat breadcrumbs 50%,
*soya mince 22%,
*oatflakes 20%,
yeast extract,
*malted barley flour,
*onion,
seasalt,
locust bean & xanthan gum (stabilisers),
*black pepper,
*sage

That’s it!

A retail bag, net weight 350g, mixed with 500ml water makes 15 x 56g (2oz) burgers.

Sosage Mix Ingredients

*96% organically grown

*Wholewheat breadcrumbs 50%, *soya mince 23%, *oatflakes 20%, yeast extract, *onion, sea salt, locust bean & xanthan gum (stabilisers), *black pepper, *sage, *beetroot powder.

A retail bag, net weight 350g, mixed with 500ml water makes 15 x 56g (2oz) burgers.

Hemp Burger Mix Ingredients

*96% organically grown

*Wholewheat breadcrumbs 27%, *oatflakes 27%, *hemp flour 22%, *sunflower seeds 13%, *onion, yeast extract, *garlic, seasalt, *parsley, locust bean & xanthan gum (stabiliser), *black pepper

A retail bag, net weight 350g, mixed with 350ml water makes 12 x 56g (2oz) burgers.

Allergy advice

Allergy advice: our products contains gluten (though we hope to launch a gluten-free recipe soon. The Regular burger mix and sosage mix contain soya.

Made in a kitchen which never uses eggs, fish, dairy or any other animal products but which handles nuts, peanuts, mustard, celery & sesame seeds.

To purchase our mixes…

… visit our mail order page

or visit us at the Sumac Centre

or visit one of our retail outlets in Nottingham, Derby and Manchester.

or order wholesale from our sole distributor, Lembas, based in Sheffield and delivering throughout our region

or enjoy Veggies Burgers at one of our many Veggies Events.

The sales of our mixes supports Veggies campaigns, events & our information resources.

Thank you for supporting minimal packaging since 1984!

Zapatista Calendar 2012

The Zapatista Calendar 2012 is published jointly by the Edinburgh Chiapas Solidarity Group and Kiptik. All proceeds go to health and drinking water projects in Zapatista communites.

These were going for £7+p&p, but are now available for £5 inc delivery.

Buy Now …

If you live in Nottingham you can buy calendars from Veggies at the Sumac Centre.

CALENDAR COVER

CALENDAR PICTURES

Freedom for Political Prisoner Calendars

The proceeds from the Freedom for Political Prisoner Calendar will be divided among the groups shown on the Certain Days website.

These were for £7+p&p, but are now available for £5 inc delivery.

Buy Now …

If you live in Nottingham you can buy calendars from Veggies at the Sumac Centre.

We reminded ourselves what People’s Kitchen is all about…

Cooking and eating together can be a fundamental way that a social centre can bring people together and organise more stuff, collectively.  People’s Kitchen plays a really important role in this.

Lots of people come to eat, but much less come to help make it happen.  For People’s Kitchen to be really collective, the people who eat and the people who cook can and should be the same people!

Things we want to see happen with People’s Kitchen…

- Make it a place where those who come to eat are collectively responsoble for making a great meal together happen.  This could mean that on weeks where people don’t sign up to help, that Peoples Kitchen doesn’t happen.

- Make it a place to share skills and learn new ones

- Make it a place where you can drop-in and help.

Separate all the different tasks involved so that people can volunteer to:

- Decide the menu and find recipes

- Get the shopping done (or gather ingredients from Veggies food store)

- Chop stuff

- Cook or help someone else cook

- Serve

- Tidy up

- Or,  if they want to, to cook a yummy meal on their own

- Collectivise our knowledge on mass catering,  recipes, etc…

- Link up the cooking with some growing.  Maybe bring in some allotments or the Sumac garden?

* A new rota, with all the different tasks you can do, will be up in the Sumac.

* Announcements about making these other suggestions happen will be on their way soon.

* If you have any further suggestions or comments,  please email the cafe collective!

See more info on the People’s Kitchen listing on the Sumac Diary.

To keep up with other  Sumac news and announcements subscribe up to the SumacNews mailing list.

You are invited to People’s Kitchen Glossop on 13th Feb

Ronny, Jonathan and Anna have been involved in People’s Kitchen projects in other areas, so we’re starting one in Glossop.

The idea is that people come together for an affordable, tasty, healthy and ethical communal meal. We’re keeping it vegan and not-too-spicy, to be inclusive, and can cater for allergies and special requests with advance notice. There will always be gluten-free options.


When and where?

The first one will be Monday 13th Feb at The Oakwood on High St West, from 6.30 to 8.30pm. (We’ll have the pub to ourselves as it is closed Mondays.)

Food served from 6.30 until it runs out, so either get there on time
or book via: peopleskitchenglossop@gmail.com
or call 0782 861 7933 to reserve portions and seats.

Cost?

£2.50 for plate of food. Optional dessert is extra. Bottled drinks for sale (or bring your own).

We’ll have live background music from Quiet Loner and Steve Roberts. If the event is a success, we’ll consider running them monthly and publicising in the local press.

How can you help?

1. Book, so we have an idea of numbers.

2. Spread the word.

3. Donate any surplus vegetables and (vegan) ingredients earlier in the day, or the day before. Unwanted kitchen equipment also gratefully received.

4. Volunteer as a chef or server. Help clean and tidy the place on the night.

Thank you and hopefully see you there!

Ronny

Follow news of possible future meals with People’s Kitchen Glossop on the Vegan Outreach Diary, which lists similar events all over the UK.

As we are busy people, and expect that you are too, we do not tweet too often.
We do not intend to document the trivia of our daily lives!

Likewise we tend not to follow others on twitter who tweet too often.
You may therefore be interested in the news from those that we are following.

Follow our news at http://twitter.com/veggiesnottm or on Facebook.

The Vegan Side of Twitter

Twitter co-founder, Biz Stone, went vegan in 2001 after visiting Farm Sanctuary.

Biz Stone is also lobbying for vegetarian meals in school lunches. He sent a letter to Rep. George Miller, chair of the House Education and Labor Committee, writing: “Hundreds of thousands of students across the country don’t eat meat, according to a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study. However, these young vegetarians often can’t find healthy, meatless meals in the school cafeteria.”

Biz Stone obviously believes in the power of lunch, because Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters provides free vegan lunches to its employees.

…more…

See also Interview at Farm Sanctuary on YouTube.

Co-organiser DavidO writes…

A huge well done to all those involved in Compassionate Derby A.K.A. the East Midlands Vegan Festival.

We ended up with over 30 stalls, engaging speakers (that included MP’s, Buddhist teachers and highly regarded vegan cooks) and most important of all, around 700 curious members of the public wandering through – only a tiny fraction of whom were vegan.

There has been a great deal of positive feedback from stallholders and public alike, and a veritable chorus of “Please that we do it all again next year and in a BIGGER VENUE!”

The highlight for me was when a young teenager who having been persuaded to have a look around (by a giant rabbit with sparklers) came back along the same busy high street where she had been leafleted and called out “that vegan food is GORGEOUS!” to her mates (and everyone else within a wide radius).

A massive thank you to everyone who donated their valuable time to achieve such a success and in particular to the half dozen or so committed Derby Animal Rights activists who somehow brought a big idea to life in six weeks flat..

Event website

Nik adds…

I just wanted to say a huge WELL DONE to Dave O and the band of merry men (& women) who pulled it off perfectly!

I think they day went amazingly. I know a few stall holders were wishing it would be a bit busier, but for a first time I have to say I was pleasantly surprised at how many people came through the doors.

Also, I’ve not been to many ‘vegan fayres’, but the ones I’ve been to have been so busy you’re restricted to your stall and don’t get to see anything else. It was nice to be able to walk around and actually see stalls rather than be looking over peoples shoulders for a quick glimpse. I even spoke to stall holders and learned a lot!

It went brilliantly and I’m glad I got to witness it.

Can’t wait for next years!

“Find details of similar events all over the UK on the Vegan Outreach Diary, compiled by Veggies Catering Campaign.”

Green Meadow Animal Sanctuary has been taking in sick and rescued animals since 1991 and is home to in excess of 100 sheep and various other animals such as goats, turkeys, chickens, ducks, geese, horses, rabbits, cats, etc.

The sanctuary is entirely reliant on volunteers and donations to look after all the rescued and sick animals in their care and now urgently needs your help.

All the animals will live out the rest of their natural lives here, as we operate a strict no-breed and no-kill policy.

Once the animals are here they can roam the 37 acres of land to their hearts content and desire and come in for shelter whenever they want to, into our purpose built accommodation.

We need to stress to people that the situation is now urgent and all animals face slaughter if land has to be sold off. Funds have run out, and with running costs of £2500 per month, things are looking grim if we can’t get money coming in.

Donate with PayPal or credit/debit cards via http://www.greenmeadow.org.uk/

Or post your donation to:

Green Meadow Animal Sanctuary
Quarry Farm
Great Moor
Pattingham
Near Wolverhampton
WV6 7AT

Tel: 01902 701743

The 2011 Green Traders Awards winners are…

“This year was the sixth year of the Festival’s Green Traders Awards, given by Glastonbury, Greenpeace, The Soil Association, The Fairtrade Foundation and Nationwide Caterers Association (NCASS) to the traders who did the most to help make the Festival greener, fairer and more sustainable.

“Once again this year a team of Greenpeace volunteers trekked across the festival site interviewing traders, quizzing them about everything from: how they arrived on site, what their stall was made of; how much of their stock was Fairtrade, organic or recycled, and any other ethical criteria they proactively used to reduce their impact on the environment.

“… And the final award was given to Veggies Catering Co who received the Greenpeace Award. “For many years we’ve been trying to encourage all Glastonbury traders to be as green as we aim to be.”

Read full story, with details of other Award Winners (and well done to them all) at Glastonbury Festival News. Special congratulations to “the winner of this year’s Gold Award for food … last year’s runner-up No Bones Jones, who do vegetarian and vegan food”.

Veggies has been shortlisted in the Green Trading Standards scheme at previous Glastonbury Festivals and are 3-times winners of the ‘Best Vegan Caterer’ Awards.

Whilst we are delighted to have been recognised with this award, our mission is to reflect searching questions back to the festival itself, including…

Q. What are you selling that is Fairtrade?

A. Coffee, decaff coffee, hot chocolate, tea, redbush, herbal teas. For over 25 years we have never stocked other than fair trade teas and coffees, which are also organic where available.

… nor have we ever sold Cocoa Cola products, despite their being the nominated soft drink supplier to Glastonbury Festival.

Q. What other criteria do you look for when sourcing ethical goods?

A. We ensure that all goods are vegan. We follow the product advice of the Ethical Consumer Research Association.

Many consider Veggies Catering Campaign to be one of the most ethical on the circuit. Our policies are not a flash in the pan, they have been the cornerstone of our operation for over 25 years, drawn from our close involvement is supporting many campaigns for humans, animals and the environment.

Q. “Do you have any other suggestions for improving the sustainability of (Glastonbury) festival as a whole?”

A. Include concerns over the environmental impact of livestock products in all aspects of ethical and environmental planning and monitoring. Livestock products have been held responsible for significant amount of methane & carbon emissions. Whilst there may be debate over the detail, farmed animals compete inefficiently for food/feed, water and land resources, in a way which cannot be sustained if the global population were to adopt western patterns of consumption.

The rest of our submission to Glastonbury Festival Green Trader Awards in 2010 can be seen at our Ethical Policies page.

Read about all our other awards on our award-winning-caterer page

April 2011: This new title from Scoffer Publications is now available!

Veggies Scoffer includes:

Anecdotes from 26th years catering at the frontline

Perhaps you were at J18 or M40 RTS street parties, the G8 in Stirling, Glastonbury or on Hatfield Peat Moor? You may even have stood with us in the snow at Molesworth US Airforce Base in the winter of ’85!

What was your favourite Veggies Event?

Recipies from Veggies events.

Have you been fed by Veggies at camps or gatherings, festivals or fairs, weddings or birthdays, or any other events?

Veggies Scoffer includes recipes from…

• Climate Camps
• Peace News Camp
• AR Gatherings
• Radical Routes Gatherings
• Veggieskool Catering
• Peoples Kitchen

Be your own Veggies
- How to set up a Veggies group
- Trailers / street stalls / indoor fairs / event catering
- Cooking with Veggies Mixes

Guest recipies from other campaign caterers, including Anarchist Teapot, Green Garden Cafe, Something Fishy, Fairfoods, Vegan Campaigns, Shambu’s, Screaming Carrot

Veggies Tour Dates – featuring events on our annual itinerary

Veggies Scoffer is now available from our Scoffer Publications section.

This article recently featured in the Young Veggie pages of The Vegetarian.
We thought it was worth reprinting in time for summer in Youth Matters, too.

Lots of parties and get-togethers during the summer months centre around the garden and the barbecue. Even though barbecues are traditionally associated with cooking meat, vegetarians can enjoy a good barbecue as much as anyone else. Give these two menus a try for super-tasty summer barbecues.

Simple summer barbecue:

Veggies burgers, or make your own with Veggies Burger Mixes
Bread rolls
Simple salad garnish (sliced tomatoes, greens such as lettuce or spinach, grated carrot, sliced onions)
Condiments (tomato sauce, salad cream, brown sauce, mayonnaise, chilli sauce)
Crisps
Corn chips with salsa
Hummus with raw vegetables (peppers, carrots, mushrooms, cauliflower, celery)
Fresh summer fruit (strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, raspberries)

Deluxe Veggies barbecue:

For the grill-
Marinated firm tofu skewers with Mediterranean vegetables
Peppers stuffed with tomato and vegan feta cheese
Spiced sweet potato slices
Veggies burgers, or make your own with Veggies Burger Mixes

On the side-
Hummus with vegetables
Lemony bean salad
Potato salad with chopped mint and lemon
Platter of sundried tomatoes, olives, vegan cheeses and savoury biscuits
Breads (pitta, rolls, etc)
Condiments
Toasted vegan marshmallows (from Veggies) and s’mores

Tip: Make sure that any food items that usually need refrigeration, like Plamil mayonnaise or hummus, are kept cool by either being served on a bowl of ice or kept indoors.

PEACE NEWS SUMMER CAMP 2011!

28 July – 1 August 2011
near Shrewsbury, Shropshire

More info: www.peacenewscamp.info

Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/pncamp

Twitter: pnsummercamp

Contact: peacenewscamp@googlemail.com

or call 0207 278 3344

PURCHASE TICKETS: http://tinyurl.com/summercamptickets

Strands include:

- Cuts and Community Organising: Building Stronger Communities of Resistance

- People Power & Solidarity: Learning from Movements in the Middle East and Beyond

- Building Skills, Sharing Skills: Including nonviolence direct action training

Sessions include:

- Lessons from the Animal Rights Movement

- The London Coalition Against Poverty and Dave Morris
(McLibel) on community organising

- Tim Street (UK Uncut) and Stop Kettling Our Kids
(http://stopkettlingourkids.wordpress.com) on anti-cuts activism

- A screening of Michael Channan‘s documentary film about the anti-cuts movement “Chronicle of Protest” (www.chronicleofprotest-thefilm.co.uk)

-Nonviolent Direct Action Trainingfor anti-cuts / anti-arms trade etc… activists

- Ewa Jasiewicz (Free Gaza, organiser for Unite) on organising with migrant and non-migrant workers

- Activist Security (http://www.activistsecurity.org) on dealing with movement infiltration

- Andrew Muncie (International Solidarity Movement) on “Nonviolence in Palestine”

- Guy Smallman (www.guysmallman.com) on Afghanistan

- Author and activist Greg Muttitt (www.fuelonthefire.com) on oil and politics in occupied Iraq

- Red Pepper’s Alex Nunns (co-editor of new book “Tweets from Tahrir”) on the Egyptian uprising

- Susan Clarkson (Oxford Catholic Worker) on “Harry Potter and Resistance”

- Milan Rai on “Chomsky’s Politics” and “Abolishing War”

- Penny Stone on “Singing for Social Change”

- John Stewart (Airport Watch / HACAN) on “How the Campaign to Stop the Third Runway at Heathrow was Won”

- visionOntv on how to be a citizen TV reporter

- Patrick Nicholson (Bicycology) on “Cars, Carbon and Capitalism”

- Artist Emily Johns (http://emilyjohns.org.uk) on “Conscious Oil” and “Drawing Paradise on the Axis of Evil”

PLUS: People Power: The Game of Civil Resistance (www.peoplepowergame.com)

Smash EDO (www.smashedo.org.uk)

Seeds for Change (www.seedsforchange.org.uk)

Rhizome (www.rhizome.coop)

Jubilee Debt Campaign (http://www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk)

Campaign Against Arms Trade (www.caat.org.uk)

Lessons from the Animal Rights Movement; Derek Wall

(The Rise of the Green Left); Hicham Yezza (www.ceasefiremagazine.co.uk);

and the UK Youth Climate Coalition (http://ukycc.org)

PLUS:  masculinity and militarism; nuclear weapons; abolishing war;
DSEi 2011: resisting Britain’s biggest arms fair;
participatory entertainment; food from the wonderful Veggies

of Nottingham (www.veggies.org.uk);

Howard Zinn’s “Emma: A Play in Two Acts about Emma Goldman,
American Anarchist”; music from SEIZE THE DAY (www.seizetheday.org), TRACEY

CURTIS (www.myspace.com/traceycurtis),

the CARBON TOWN CRYER (http://www.myspace.com/carbontowncryer)
and much more!

Join people from across the broad spectrum of the British peace
movement and radical activism for five days of exploration,
celebration and empowerment.

ABOUT PEACE NEWS SUMMER CAMP

Bring your contribution to a hothouse of creativity, a small
self-governed society run by democratic camp meetings, a viable
example of the kind of world we are trying to bring about. The
Peace News Summer Camp helps build a radical movement for the
future by building a living community today.

We are camping in a family-friendly and renewably-powered way
from 28 July to 1 August in the beautiful grounds of Crabapple
Community, near Shrewsbury in Shropshire.

Activities include: workshops and discussions, practical skills
sessions, delicious vegan food cooked by Veggies of Nottingham,
music, film, fun and participatory entertainment, a bar,
campfires, and activities and facilities for kids and families.

NB Dogs (except guide dogs) are not allowed on site – sorry.

TICKETS & FOOD

The camp costs £15 – £65 depending upon income. Payment can be
made by cheque, online or by phone:

- http://tinyurl.com/summercamptickets
for on-line purchases
– 0207 278 3344 for purchases by phone
– Send cheques (payable to “Peace News” to Peace News, 5
Caledonian Rd, London N1 9DY), explaining how many tickets you’re
purchasing and which rates

Food (3 meals a day and drinks) will cost £6 – £11 a day for
adults, depending on income, and should be ordered before the camp
starts. Individuals meals will be available to buy at the camp.

For more info, including details of location, see www.peacenewscamp.info

WHAT PEOPLE SAID ABOUT LAST YEAR’S CAMP

“Wonderful workshops and a wide range of people with which to
exchange ideas”

“Safe, friendly, interesting, happy, useful, accepting, great for
networking, well thought out and set up. Thank you for organising
and creating a lovely village”

“It was a great holiday for me and I loved meeting new people. To
become aware of the work that people are doing all over the country”