Veganuary is a campaign that encourages people to try a vegan lifestyle during the month of January. There are many health benefits to a vegan diet such as avoiding bad fats that can lead to heart disease and diabetes. A vegan diet is also better for the environment as it reduces greenhouse gas emissions and takes cars off the road equivalent to millions of miles driven. Going vegan means avoiding meat and animal products, but there are many tasty alternatives for foods like burgers, bacon, and cheese made from ingredients like soy, coconut, and rice.

1. The vegan life
It’s a new year and time to try something different. Veganuary is a global
campaign aiming to get more people trying a vegan lifestyle for the month of
January. This could be used as your Christmas detox or just to try something
new.
Why try Veganuary? What would be the benefitsfor you?
Turning vegan for a month could be a change worth doing for you, it has plenty
of health benefits as apposed to your usual meat diet, but there are still people
unaware that they can get a healthy nutritional diet from being a vegan. Well, we
can tell you that you can! Research and peoples experiences have shown
evidence of people maintaining a healthy nutritional vegan diet.
What do you do for alternativesto dairy? Isit not expensive?
A common alternative for milk among vegans is soy milk, an easy and reasonable
price alternative so that you can carry on with your usual daily dairy meals and
luxury’s like milk on your cereal or in your cups of tea, this also contains
nutrients that you need such as protein and carbs. As said before it is reasonably
priced and you could pick up a carton of soymilk for around a £1.30. Other dairy
products like cheese can be made from multiple sources such as Coconut Milk,
Soymilk and even brown rice. Surprisingly to some there are alternatives for
each type of cheese like, Mozzarella and cheddar.
What are the other benefits for me?
Wanting to lose weight of get toned up for your summer holiday? Veganuary is a
step in the right direction. Removing a lot of bad fats from your food like trans
fats by getting rid of your usual meaty meals has a massive improvement on your
health; this fat can lead to things such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and
other chronic conditions. This type of fat stores in your body and takes a lot of
hard work to burn off.
Now, What other benefitsare there?
According to ‘Environmental Working Group’ form their recent studies they have
discovered that “If everyone in the U.S. took one day a week to not eat meat or
cheese, it would be like taking 7.6 million cars off the road.” And one person
could make their own difference as their research also showed “Eating one less
burger a week is like taking your car of the road for 320 miles.” This would make
a huge difference in the long run and trying to expand our vegan community
would speed up this process.

2. The Animals
Animals are just like us, they experience common feelings and emotions the
same as humans such as happiness, pain, fear, hunger, sadness, boredom and
frustration. This shouldn’t be the feelings that we should force upon animals or
any living beings, although people say that it is just a natural food chain picture
yourself in the animals shoes, mass populated, crammed into small dark huts and
warehouses with your life span drastically reduced from 15+ years to around
one year.
Some of our top meals!
You may not think you would enjoy vegan meal plans but you will be pleasantly
surprised. We create alternatives to your beef burgers and bacon butties that will
still please anybody. Things like Grilled aubergine, soy cheese and pesto burgers and
Baked Curry Chickpea Fritters make an excellent and tasty alternative to a common
beef burger. And for your bacon butties you could replace with coconut bacon
produced by multiple companies or even sweet earths hickory & sage bacon, there
are plenty of alternatives for your favorite foods out there so plenty to try.
The VeganCommunity
There are around 150,000 full time vegans in the UK, that’s around one in 400 in
the UK. Although this number seems low it is seeing huge difference since the
start our campaign between 2012 and 2013 the number of people trying the
vegan lifestyle for the month of January increased by 40% that’s a significant
improvement and we hope to beat that result and get as many as 50% more than
Veganuary last year, we could all achieve that together just by trying it, whether
its for a week, month or permanently.