South African Vegan News

Woolworths home brand produces cholesterol free vegetarian patties made from crushed wheat (58%), beans, chickpeas (25%), butternut (17%) and spinach (9%). Product reference: 20201814. Ideal as vegan bean burgers.

Available at Woolworths Food stores nationwide.

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Based in Franschhoek in the heart of South Africa’s wine district, Leopard’s Leap crafts its wines from the finest grapes picked from the best vineyards in the Cape Winelands, home of the magnificent Cape Mountain Leopard. Leopard’s Leap is also a proud sponsor of the Cape Leopard Trust, which seeks to protect the magnificent Cape Mountain Leopard.

Their vegan wines can be found at Ultra, Makro, Spar and Tops, Checkers, PnP, Picardi, Midmar.

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Kaldi’s Coffee in Newtown is a relaxed and comfortable place where different people, from the ordinary man in the street, to artists and corporate professionals, meet to enjoy our Ethiopian Coffees which we roast in store. They have now introduced some strictly vegan meals, available Mon-Fri and an option of vegan friendly catering on request.

Kaldi’s prides itself in looking at being part of the global eco friendly society by introducing vegan meals to their existing clients and new, expanding vegan customer base.

A few menu examples:

- A hearty breakfast sandwich – e.g Multigrain brown bread, Brown lentil paste, roast veg (carrot, babymarrow, and mixed peppers), lettuce leaf, sliced avocado, soya strips (or 2 soya viennas) in mushroom served with skin on potato wedges.

- Avocado Puree on multigrain stuffed with fresh carrots, lettuce and tomato, served with skinny chips and 2 soya viennas or soya polony slices.

- Hot meal available from 12 noon – Brown rice mixed with lentils, Butternut puree, Stir fried cabbage and carrots, soya sausage in chili bean sauce.

- Sugar beans and chunky potato stew with stir fried spinach and soya sausage, served with mielie rice and beetroot salad.

Nutty Smoothie – Peanuts and raisins, Soya milk, coconut and banana all blended together to make a rich vegan smoothie.

The Vegan Salad – Lettuce, cucumber, cocktail tomatoes, Green and Black olives, roasted nuts, sesame seeds, sliced Avocado, robot peppers, carrot shavings, sliced soya schnitzel or soya vienna, olive oil drizzle – served with chips or without.

Vegan soup – split peas, assorted vegetables, finished with coconut cream and served with a home made roti.

Vegetable noodle soup of the day – a variety of vegetables with noodles.

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Despite the fact that ‘living green’ and ‘organic’ are all the rage at the moment, it is not always easy to find good quality organic products at a reasonable price.

And so the Fat Olive Market was born.

Our aim is to provide local artists, farmers and small businesses the opportunity to showcase their products and in doing so raising awareness about organic products and green living. We hope to create a space where clients return every second week to stock up on their fresh produce, dairy products and meat.

The market will be made up of local farmers, artists, bakers and anyone else who wants to contribute their organic/handmade items. The focus is on the items being produced locally. So all products must be made in South Africa and be as organic as possible.

The market will run twice a month with the first market being held on the 5 May 2012. The times will be 9h00 – 13h00.

The market will be held on the premises of The Fat Olive Restaurant, Plot 92, Lammermoor Conservancy, Elandsdrift Road, Muldersdrift. GPS co-ords: S25′ 57.792, E27′ 52.834.

Who are WE: Nicci is our resident eco warrior, she eats veggies, writes poetry and trusts the universe to keep her life shiny and bright. Laura recycles, plays mom’s taxi, blogs and in between that is trying to maintain some level of sanity. We are both passionate about living a green life and raising awareness about organic products and all the amazing creative people we have in South Africa.

Contact Details
Nicci – 0824672328
Laura – 0718856189
fatolivemarket@gmail.com

Travellers Nest offers 11 luxurious en-suite rooms, including TV (DSTV hospitality bouquet), linen, towels, shampoo, soap, lotion, and coffee making facilities. All rooms have a private entrance leading to the pool, garden and lapa.

Depending on individual needs, 3 meals per day can be offered. Safe and secure parking available for guests’ vehicles.

They serve all meals on request only. All meals are prepared fresh on the premises. They like to assist their guests in any way possible and will go to the trouble to accommodate special dietary requirements.

Vegan breakfasts (and normal breakfasts) are different from day to day. Should a guest request something out of the ordinary, they try their best to find this and satisfy their guests’ needs. Vegan breakfasts are either fruit or vegetables combined with nuts and soy products. Samples:

• Baked, filled tomato: sweet corn, chopped sweet peppers and fried onion
• Vegetarian sausages with gravy (Fry’s range)
• Hash browns
• Fruit salad with honeyed cream: vegan option
• Cereals always available (soy milk)
• Baked apples with nuts, cinnamon and sugar
• Bread/toast always available (non dairy margarine)
• Vegetarian patties with fried tomato (Fry’s range)
• Sweet chilli chicken (Fry’s range)
• Sliced potato, fried and stacked with roasted nuts and seeds

Lunch:

Starters

• Roasted egg plant with tomato and onion
• Filled baby marrow boats (sesame seeds, chopped onion and garlic)

Main course

• Stir fry vegetables with chicken (Fry’s range) served with white rice
• Vegetable cakes with homemade sweet chilli sauce
• Greek salad with lentils

Dinner:

Starters

• Tomato and onion salsa served with melba toast (rye bread)
• Vegetable sticks/pieces served with a cucumber and onion dip
• Grilled mango and raisin stack

Main course

• Filled green peppers (cooked yellow rice, onion, tomato and chutney
• Roasted vegetables with nuts
• Three bean salad/ copper penny salad
• Mince with rice (Fry’s range)
• Chicken style nuggets with pasta rice (Fry’s range)
• Vegetable lasagna (eggless pasta sheets)
• Vegetable bake

Other dining options in the area include Mimmos, Cuppucinos, Debonairs and Wimpy.

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28 April at 10:00 am until 29 April at 2:00 am.

This is an all day festival, starting at Winston Ink tattoo studio and ending at The Winston Pub in Glenwood, to promote the use of humane products, i.e. products that are either vegan or vegetarian and are not tested on animals.

When buying household products or personal products like skin care, shampoos etc, make sure you look for Beauty Without Cruelty approved products, in doing so you may be saving the lives of defenceless bunnies animals that may be used for testing.

If you’re serious about the cause, you can get the Beauty Without Cruelty logo tattooed for free, by Samantha Lee Bunnyfluff at Winston Ink. All you need to do is post “PLEDGE” onto the Facebook Event wall, then come in on Saturday morning, sign the pledge to follow the cruelty free lifestyle, bring along dog/cat/bunny food, or anything you think may make a homeless puppy or kitten a little happier, starting from 10 am Saturday morning.

All proceeds from this music festival will be donated to Beauty Without Cruelty South Africa and Hillside Haven in Durban (tinned foods etc).

Winston Ink studio open from 10 am; The Winston Pub, 9 Clark Road, open from 12 pm; bands start at 3 pm.

Line up:

15:00 – 15:30 – Doxology
15:45 – 16:15 – Sangreal
16:30 – 17:00 – Conclave
17:15 – 17:45 – Throne
18:00 – 18:30 – Darkest Age
18:45 – 19:15 – Bracken Hill
19:30 – 20:00 – In The Mouth Of Madness
20:15 – 20:45 – Battle for Beauty Without Cruelty Festival winner …
21:00 – 21:30 – Stellawood Decapitation
21:45 – 22:15 – Bad Murphy
22:30 – 23:00 – Skuff Mullet
23:15 – 23:45 – Hatespeech

R 50 entrance fee, any donations welcome, it’s all for a good cause.

Bon-Af is a self-pick berry farm near Parys/Sasolburg in the Free State. Enjoy berries while they are in season and at their peak of freshness, flavour and nutritional power. When not in season, there is a huge selection of frozen berries to choose from as well.

Join a guided tour through the orchard and indulge on over 60 varieties of succulent berries at your own pace.

A special container is provided for everyone wishing to pick berries for take away. You can pick berries such as: Gooseberries, Blackberries, Raspberries, Blueberries, Blackcurrants, Elderberries, Black Nightshade.

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Saltare in Stellenbosch produce handmade boutique wines. They have a zero dosage Méthode Cap Classique, a Chenin blanc and Syrah; all made in small quantities with minimal interference. Their wines are also produced with low sulphur levels.

Saltare’s wines are available from selected wine stores in the Cape Peninsula.

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At The Vervet Monkey Foundation, near Tzaneen we will be taking part in the Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale on Saturday 21st April 2012 from 2-5 pm.

Please do join us with an opportunity to buy lots of delicious vegan cakes and other items prepared by our professional vegan chef Day Radley. Nutritional advice can be given as well as more info about the vegan lifestyle.

If you would like a guided tour in the afternoon to learn about what we do and see some of the vervet monkeys in our care, please contact info@vervet.za.org or phone 083 4545 381 to let us know you are coming, The fee for tours on this day is just R25 per person.

Visit our gift shop and education centre and discover why we promote a vegan lifestyle in support of our efforts to protect the vervet monkey and their habitat. Visit www.vervet.za.org for more info.

This winery tied for second place with Kanonkop in 2010, but had not even released its first wine, Columella 2000, at the time of the first poll in 2001. Since then, Eben Sadie has led a quality revolution in the Swartland region and has arquably done more than any single winemaker for South Africa’s international profile as a fine-wine producer. It is a combination of charisma, talent, hard-won experience and sheer hard work.

The chenin blanc-based Palladius soon joined Columella and founded a new category of distinctive Cape white blends. These 2 original Sadie wines have been joined by the Old Vineyard Series – fascinating wines made in necessarily tiny quantities. They are all made with minimal cellar manipulation, transparently expressing their origins.

Sadie Family wines are all vegan and are available from their cellar in Pederberg.

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