OK, I admit it. I’m one of those horrendous people who insists on taking pictures of their food before eating it; no matter how antisocial or inappropriate the situation may be.  But I just can’t help myself. I’m a foodie who loves to look at, eat and talk about food. I’m also a shameless copycat for food I enjoy, and often take inspiration for my own cooking from photos I have taken of others culinary skills.

My photo collection of previous meals also serves another, more useful, function. It very easily answers the question of “what do vegans even eat anyway?” These days, I don’t have to give a well-informed lecture about the nutritionally rich and diverse foods available for vegan dining, I can simply hand them my phone to browse through millions of pictures of what I actually have eaten. Easy!

And browsing through my phone last weekend, trying to find a needle in a foodie photo haystack, I realised I’d had a pretty foodilicious summer. So I thought for a bit of fun I would share some of my highlights so you too can know what a lazy vegan foodie eats!

So what do vegans eat?

Seitan, caramelised onion, guacamole & vegan Monterey Jack cheese sub

from Samphire Brasserie – sat in Central Park, Plymouth

Vegan sausage sandwich

from Godrevy Beach cafe – sat on Godrevy beach after camping for the Summer Solstice

Vegan chocolate orange torte  with soy peanut butter ice-cream shake

from Cookies and Scream, for my birthday London trip

Seitan summer rolls & hoisin dip

from Wildebeest Cafe, in Falmouth – for our 6yr anniversary meal

Goan squash curry

also from Wildebeest Cafe

Vegetable chilli with cashew cheese, salsa, guacamole and blue flour wraps

from Wildebeest Cafe

Carrot, beetroot, chickpea and seed salad with fried tofu

from Archie Browns, for a Truro shopping trip with my bestie

Veggie curry and lentil dahl

from vegan stall at Bristols St Paul Carnival

Summer tapas salad

at Hilltop Farm Shop, on a trip along the Camel trail

Vegan thali

from Masala Zone, on a work night out in London

Mushroom, sundried tomato and vegan mozzeralla burger

from Samphire Brasserie for Plymouth girly shopping trip

Chips!!

Sat on the harbour at St Mawes