Easter 2019!

Hello! It's slowly creeping up, it's bouncing back into our weekend soon...it's Easter! *pop* As I do each year (although, I've only been around for 2 of them!) Here's a little round up of nifty gifty bits and bobs which don't break the bank/are good value for what they are.

All round good'un: Daffodils! Most supermarkets sell daffodils bundles for just £1, or you can get things like little tubs of tete a tetes (the tiny ones) for around £1-2. These may be a good gift for someone who doesn't like chocolate, or just for yourself to brighten up the place.

Eggs:

Asda have this lovely looking trio of milky style, white and dark chocolate eggs for £4.50. Looks nice as a gift on it's own, or could be split up.

Morrisons also have their own eggs, for £2.50 you can get an egg with truffles, in milky, white or dark.

Often Morrisons do a 3 for £10 on Moo Free eggs too. This hasn't happened yet but if it does, I'll update the blog!

Sainsbury's have milky and white, but also strawberry and white chocolate. Each are £3.50, so getting a bit expensive, but interesting flavour!

They also have 'Rhythm' mini egg bags for £1.25. I think you get 6 mini eggs.

Holland and Barrett have their own milk style egg for £2.99, which includes a little chocolate bar.

H and B also have Plamil/So Free products, such as these mini half eggs and larger white chocolate egg, both £2.99.

Non-egg chocolate!

Moo free have some lovely little chocolate bars of 'Rosie Rabbit' for around 99p depending on where you buy it (Asda are 99p!)

Asda also has this bigger bunny for £3!

Whatcha think?! Lots to choose from this year, it's always expanding, which is great! Have I missed anything? If so, let me know and I'll add it and credit you!

Hope this helps!

Vegan Easter Ideas!

Hello! Easter is less than a month away now and I'm seeing a lot of questions involving being vegan at Easter. So I thought I'd make a post with all my little ideas and findings ready for the occasion. I'll discuss things such as Easter eggs, traditional nibbles and Sunday lunch (including the Aldi super 6 for Easter week!).

Easter eggs and chocolate treats

Edit: Plamil have 3 vegan Easter hampers online, all £25.00 (which roughly working it out seems to save about £5) and so all qualify for free postage! I've got a post all about this (here), but to check it out, head here: Plamil Easter hampers

All the leading supermarkets have vegan eggs and chocolate this year (so far as I know!) including Morrisons selling Moo Free eggs at 3 for £10 until Easter (see my previous post on this offer!). However this may still be a little expensive, so some other alternatives include:

• Aldi do a dark chocolate 'Lindt' style bunny - 79p (photo from The Hectic Vegan as Aldi do not sell things like this online!) Make sure you pick up the dark chocolate version as I think there is a non-vegan milk chocolate version too.

• Choices small dairy free chocolate bunny - £1 in Sainsburys, 99p in Asda

• Sainsburys free from small white choc egg and buttons - £2.50 (I think there is a milk chocolate vegan one too in some stores!)

• Tesco has white and milk chocolate eggs at £2.50-£3.00

• Tesco also have a free from bunny lolly - £1.00

• Asda also has a cute free from Easter bunny - £3

 

• Holland and Barrett have a small Plamil Easter bunny - £1.35

• Holland and Barrett also have Plamil mini egg halves - £3.25. These would be a good option to wrap in foil individually for a little egg hunt for children!

Or (whilst this may cost more in the first year) you could buy egg molds from places such as Lakeland or online and make your own with £1 chocolate bars from places like Sainsburys! That way you can fill them with yummy extras if you wanted to :-)

There are many many more Easter eggs and treats than what I have listed above (check out the Vegan Womble Easter page for them all!) these are just the ones I have seen for lower than the cheapest Moo Free price I've seen. 

Easter nibbles

Asda have some Free From hot cross buns this year at 4 for £2 which are labelled vegan (nice and reassuring!) as well as being gluten free. 

They also have some bunny shaped crumpets for £1. This is expensive for 4 crumpets, but depending on your plans this may be a nice little extra so I'm adding them in.

Tesco have some confirmed vegan mini choc chip hot cross buns for £1. You get 8 in a pack and I'd say 2 buns makes one smallish regular sized bun (but they're also a good size individually for children!) plus they're chocolate, so that's a win!

Small notes: Last year M and S had some apple hot cross buns which were confirmed vegan. I haven't seen them yet this year but will keep a look out and update this post if I see them again! I think they were 2 packs of 4 for £2.50.

Co-op have ginger bread bunnies available, however I'm currently unsure of the price.

There may be more hot cross buns available but I don't want to put any up which may risk having peel with shellac on. I will update this if any more are confirmed to be 100% vegan.

Sunday roast

Similarly to my Christmas post, I've worked out a delicious, reasonably priced roast idea for Easter. This is for a family of 4, but prices may vary (for the better hopefully!) as a lot of supermarkets have weekly veg offers, this is just a rough guide for ideas.

Bag of parsnips for 59p

Bag of carrots for 47p

Bag of potatoes for £1.35

1kg of sprouts for 1.50 (or a cabbage for 69p, this could be cooked and fried with onion and veggie stock for a yummy side, even some oat cream if you can!)

A broccoli for 55p (or cauliflower for £1)

Bag of Onions for 75p

Soya milk for 59p

Gravy for 70p (Tesco own brand vegetable gravy)

Stuffing mix for 40p (Tesco sage and onion 170g)

Bread sauce packet mix 80p

A lot of this can all be roasted together whilst the rest can be steamed or boiled. Then just make up the bread sauce with some soya milk and cook the stuffing mix at the end (only takes around 10 mins usually). You can have a roast with 7 different items for £8.15 when adding up the expensive items. Not bad! Plus looking at it all I think it would go further than 4 people.

ALDI veg offer!

Aldi have put a lot of useful roast veg in their super 6 offer from Wednesday 28th March. The following are all 19p each!

Parsnips 600g

Swede (single)

Leeks 500g/ brown onions 1kg

Carrots 1kg

red or white cabbage (each)

Plus they are selling Maris Pyper potatoes 2.5kg for 29p

Additional Note!

If you're looking for any additional extras such as pies or roasts, don't forget to check your local Holland and Barrett for reduced items (I'm seeing a lot of Fry's new pies at the moment!) as a lot of these items can be frozen. 

Is there anything else you would like to see? If so, let me know!

Hope this helps!