Whether you want to try out a completely meat-less or simply a less-meat diet, we very much hope you enjoy the recipes within this page. We will be adding more content in the coming weeks and months. If you have any vegan recipes you would like to share, please send them to Nigel Bartram at nigel.bartram@varley-bartram.net
Great sources for Vegan recipes
- Click here for tried & trusted recipes from Holy Trinity community members.
- Click here for over a hundred vegan recipes from the excellent BBC Good Food website
- Click here for vegan recipe videos on YouTube and click here for some great YouTube vegan cooking channels
- Click here for a mix of vegan and vegetarian recipes from HelloFresh. Having selected your recipe(s) you can order the ingredients to be delivered to your door by HelloFresh France.
- If you’re looking for recipe ideas, how to convert a favourite recipe into vegan, or need some support and encouragement, why not click here to join Holy Trinity’s dedicated Vegan/Vegetarian/Less-meat Whatsapp group!
- Click here for a great resource of Veganuary recipes which is useful all year round!
Why try a Vegan diet?
Below are some useful resources provided by Nigel Bartram that may help you decide to embark on your own vegan journey!
- Some likely health benefits of going vegan
- Really good reasons why you should try eating vegan food
- Eating vegan – Frequently Asked Questions
- Some of the vegan foods you may already be eating
- Food and agriculture contributions to carbon emissions, natural resource use and environmental impacts
- Animal welfare concerns of a meat, poultry, meat and dairy product diet
If you are going vegan, there are some nutrients that are harder to find or are less easy to absorb when cutting out meat, fish and dairy. Here are some great tips from the British Dietetic Association to make sure that if you are opting to go vegan you are not missing out on important nutrients. Eating more plants is very good for us – however we should take care that we don’t miss out on important nutrients by choosing a totally plant based diets.
Azminda is an experienced dietitian who wrote a book called Vegan Savvy with lots a interesting tips some of which are summarised here:
https://www.bda.uk.com/resource/vegan-diet-healthier-way.html
This pdf highlights the nutrients which may be more problematic if you don’t eat meat, fish or dairy.
https://www.bda.uk.com/static/3f9e2928-ca7a-4c1e-95b87c839d2ee8a1/56b7e139-e1fd-482b-bb35f4d148290af9/Plant-based-diet-food-fact-sheet.pdf
Going completely vegan is not for everyone but eating a more plant rich diet with less but better animal products, reducing food waste and packaging, buying local and seasonal where you can and avoiding foods that have been transported by air all support the environment.