Since launch in 2017 tiny start-up Vive have achieved the rather amazing feat of successfully introducing new Protein Bars and Protein Powders to a very crowded market. Credit to their bars and powders being good and different enough to secure a place in the hearts of us demanding and spoiled for choice consumers! I reckon that at least one reason for success is that Vive Bars have some ...
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Vive Protein Bars Taste Test Review
Vive Protein Bars are vegan, gluten free, soy free and free from refined sugar. Bars designed for active, health conscious people who also demand pleasure from their food. I first reviewed Vive Bars in 2017 and celebrated (mostly by eating them) that they offered some very different flavors. There are oodles of bars from lots of different brands offering the same popular flavors. Chocolate, ...
Naturya Superbars Review & Interview!
If knowledge of Protein Bars was a academic discipline I would surely be the recipient of honorary degrees from institutions seeking fame by association. If familiarity with gluten free vegan protein bars earned awards I would have to rent extra space to keep all my trophies. So when I tell you that Naturya SuperBars are stand out winners on nutrition and taste you should imagine that I am wearing ...
KamAlive Artisanal Chocolates Taste Test & Interview
I discovered KamAlive during a very real life Easter Egg hunt. Specifically a hunt for gluten free, dairy free and vegan chocolate eggs. I claimed this was for the purpose of being able to prepare a guide to the Best Gluten Free and Vegan Easter Eggs. Selfless work for the benefit of others. I continue to make this claim. During this Easter Egg hunt I scoured the internet, asked for suggestions ...
No Dough Pizza Co Taste Test Review
Help me imagine something. Let us imagine it together so well it becomes real. Imagine gluten free pizza. Not difficult right? There are plenty. Now imagine gluten free vegan pizza. Ooh, we lost a lot right there but we are okay. Such pizzas exist. So far so good. Time to increase the challenge. Imagine a pizza where a "serving" is actually the entire pizza rather than an entirely make believe ...
Raw Gorilla Taste Test Review & Interview
If supermarket free from aisles could talk and were honest they might confess that most of their contents were, just perhaps, not so great nutritionally. Terrific as treats. Wonderful to have as options. Super as a showcase for the many creative ways that refined starches and added sugars can be shaped into edible food like objects. Raw Gorilla Crispies & Munchies are arrive inside packets but ...
London 100% Gluten Free Nama Restaurant
Nama Restaurant Update 31 March Oh cruel fates! Nama closed permanently as of 31 March 2018 very shortly after this review was published. First the reasons to be sorrowful. Nama was possibly *the* destination restaurant for gluten-free, vegan, raw foods in London and beyond. Big loss! No more Truffle Pasta! No more Blueberry Cheesecake! Now the reasons to be hopeful and joyous! ...
Gluten Free Vegan Protein Bar Nutrition Comparison
Are you going to eat Protein Bars? Great, me too. I follow a majority whole foods plant based diet but protein bars still carve out a niche. Convenience, fallback whilst travelling, sometimes nutritious, sometimes delicious! If you care about more than just the flavour which are the best gluten free & vegan protein bars though? To answer that read this Protein Bar Nutrition Comparison ...
Best Gluten Free Vegan Easter Eggs 2018
Looking for gluten free Easter Eggs? Lots of them. Dairy Free or Vegan Easter Eggs? There are many of those too. How about Gluten Free Vegan Easter Eggs? Ah, now we have a real egg hunt challenge! This is not a complete list of all the gluten free vegan Easter Eggs that might exist. These are special eggs. Two of the eggs are not only gluten free vegan but also nut free. One is genuinely sugar ...
Best Gluten Free & Vegan Protein Bars
Why eat Protein Bars? Food on the go? Post workout snack? Meal replacement? Faithful fallback whilst travelling? Convenience? Once you have your reasons to eat them which should choose? Which are tastiest? Which have the most protein and fibre to fill you up for longer? Which are packed with sugar? Which are best value? Which have real food ingredients? Find the answers to all those questions ...
London 100% Gluten Free Lu-Ma Cafe
What is wonderful in Wimbledon? Without a doubt the list includes Lu-Ma Cafe which offers a 100% gluten free and dairy free menu with plenty of veggie and vegan options. Dishes are mostly simple, mostly healthy and not at all pretentious. There are LOTS of treats available too including pancakes and some very, very lovely raw desserts. This is another place with an Instagram feed you must NOT view ...
Treat Guiltfree Essentials Low Carb Bread Mixes
Treat Guiltfree Essentials are a little known craft producer of gluten free bake mixes. After celebrating the Ocado Free From own brand launch I feel the need to sing the virtues of this tiny enterprise and personally recommend their products. Products I will very happily incorporate into my regular gluten free, low carb healthy diet rather than treat as exceptional indulgences. Treat Guiltfree ...
Free From Food Awards 2018 Top Picks
The Free From Food Awards 2018 are the thing you should follow for discovery of tremendous foods free from the things you do not want and full of the things you do. Gluten and other allergens go into that first bucket. Taste, texture, appearance, nutritional virtues and innovation fill the second. I have the pleasure of being part of the judging team for the awards. The quantity of free from ...
Elizabeth D Bakes Review & Interview: GF & Vegan!
Elizabeth D Bakes is a Great Taste Award winning London based artisan baker. Her American South inspired range of Brownies, Blondies, Breads & Cakes is 100% gluten free, often vegan and sometimes genuinely low sugar. Together with 4 tough to please non gluten free, non vegan friends I sampled most of the Elizabeth D Bakes range. Spoiler alert! Elizabeth's bakes were some of the most ...
Rubys of London Vegan & Gluten Free Bakes
Rubys of London offers a very wide range of Gluten Free & Vegan baked delights. Gluten Free and Vegan bakes and baking have exploded in popularity, availability and quality in recent years. *Just* being gluten free and vegan is not enough to impress. We are not starved of delicious things. A great gluten free and vegan bake needs to be first of all GREAT then also gluten free and vegan. Rubys ...
