Stephanie Jane recenzis Lazy, Broke & Vegan de R Hall
A good little book for new and prospective vegans
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I'm gradually working my way through the myriad vegan guides and cookbooks available via Smashwords. The most recent I found - Lazy, Broke & Vegan by R Hall - was published in the UK in November 2016. I appreciated its British roots especially when looking through the suggested recipes because I knew I would be able to find all the ingredients without too much difficulty! Not all the information in the book is relevant in the UK though. I did spot a reference to sugar being non-vegan because it includes bone char. American sugar processing uses animal bones, however this is not the case in Europe.
Overall Lazy, Broke & Vegan is a good little book for new and prospective vegans. There's plenty of practical advice about food particularly, but also about other aspects of the lifestyle such as cosmetics and cleaning products. I liked the inclusion of cleaning product …
I'm gradually working my way through the myriad vegan guides and cookbooks available via Smashwords. The most recent I found - Lazy, Broke & Vegan by R Hall - was published in the UK in November 2016. I appreciated its British roots especially when looking through the suggested recipes because I knew I would be able to find all the ingredients without too much difficulty! Not all the information in the book is relevant in the UK though. I did spot a reference to sugar being non-vegan because it includes bone char. American sugar processing uses animal bones, however this is not the case in Europe.
Overall Lazy, Broke & Vegan is a good little book for new and prospective vegans. There's plenty of practical advice about food particularly, but also about other aspects of the lifestyle such as cosmetics and cleaning products. I liked the inclusion of cleaning product recipes for those of us who are really on a tight budget. With the way prices are rocketing across the UK at the moment I can imagine lots more people will be trying out veganism purely to cut their grocery bills. Hall's easy, everyday recipe selection will certainly help with that and I don't think the chosen meal ideas should be to intimidating for people unused to cooking from scratch either. There's several very tempting sweet bite recipes too - being vegan doesn't mean missing out on treats!
Obviously, with this book having been written nearly seven years ago, some of the information regarding brand name products may be out of date, but Hall does emphasise the need to check ingredients' labels carefully - something we should all do anyway, but I admit I rarely bothered prior to becoming vegetarian and then vegan. However, with the much greater range of vegan-labelled food available now, and the enthusiasm of Lazy, Broke & Vegan, I think new vegans will soon be comfortably settled in to the start of their new life journey.