More & more of my fave Fun Foods are going vegan – Reese’s peanut butter cups are coming soon per One Green Planet!!
And March 1st is Happy National Peanut Butter Lover’s Day – Good news for vegan peanut butter lovers!!
If I got a free coffee every time I have had to clarify my OAT milk request… Oat milk is Fun Food.
We Canadians are lucky with So Fresh Earth’s Own – what I believe to be the best tasting & easy to find brand of oat milk! The price is right and it is made in Canada, no surprise given all the oats we grow. So Fresh is soooo plant based it has a Plantifesto. Fun Foods could all aim to get Plantifestos!!
One of the earliest brands – maybe the first – is Oatly from Sweden. This LIVEKINDLY article reviews the recent history and huge success of the brand – the company is about to proceed with an IPO (Initial Public Offering).
The world is discovering oat milk and this handy PureWow article ranks 6, unfortunately they are mostly available in the US. While I prefer So Fresh, I want to try the Oatly Chocolate Oat Milk!
This #earthdayweek, I highly suggest having your morning coffee AND oatmeal with oat milk as your April 22 Earth Day celebration! And if you are not sold on giving oat milk a try, give this One Green Planet article a read and see if there is another non-dairy milk/mylk that convinces you to help our planet.
Easter is coming and you know what that means – Easter Candy + Hot Cross Buns! The first weekend in April is the 2021 Easter Weekend.
The Easter Bunny has a huge range of sweet Fun Food treats to share on Easter – Thank You Delish for a sizeable list! And my current fave Ganong’s Chocolate covered Cherry Eggs (BELOW – jujubes!) have been out since mid February. PLUS now I want to find these Easter Marshmallow Stuffed Puffs…
Another Easter Fun Food is hot cross buns and having taste tested a few, my current fave is from Cobs Bread. They come in 4 flavours and the apple cinnamon ones are unbelievably vegan and “heavenly” – they are gone soon after Easter to rise again every year…!
A new vegan KitKat is coming – KitKat V – because chocolate bars are Fun Food!
KitKat is going vegan. And the news was leaked so Nestle had to catch up with the rumours – and also confirmed that their cocoa is sustainable too. Details of when and where are in this One Green Planet article!
Are bananas a “Fun Food” ? Is any fruit…?
It is crystal clear that banana bread is, especially if it has chocolate chips & walnuts & granola. A different post will focus on killer banana bread! But what about a good old banana?
Without getting philosophical, the “Food” part is clear but what defines “Fun”? I already think Fun can be healthy so the nutritional angle is not a defining characteristic. And never forget a banana has its own packaging.
I’m deciding that the definition of “Fun Food” is subjective and floating – it is not black & white but lives in the grey.
SO, no matter how YOU decide to define “Fun Food”, bananas are amazing & fun and as this handy article from One Green Planet sets out, a banana is ALWAYS a good thing to eat.
Once in a while tasty IS healthy, it happens. And it can even be Veggie OR Vegan which is an extra bonus!
Poke is fun & very popular for a reason – there may be a debate over Fun Food status but try it and agree.
And, depending upon your combination, this Fun Food can be healthy AND tasty AND veggie or vegan. My Current favourite spot is Pokerritos – brave the line ups!!
Whenever you decide to give it a try, do go with a knowledgable friend the first time to see how it can be done.
Dark chocolate but not tooooooo dark, 60% and not too healthy tasting. Sweet enough to make a milk chocolate purist think twice about her position on dark chocolate.
ALL chocolate is Fun Food!
Fun Food can be veggie or vegan which reduces the guilt and improves the karma for many Fun Foods. Here is a list of my top “not so healthy” Vegan Fun Foods (okay the Palm Oil debate has to sit in the background ) and it will get updated as new info sources are discovered:
Oreos – Twizzlers – Swedish Fish – Doritos (not all flavours…) There is a LOOONG list of accidentally vegan snacks that PETA has compiled.
And here is another list of 41 Snack Foods that are surprisingly vegan! Snack = Fun.
This GREAT Insta account for Vegan Fun Food is inspirational for food & perspective – Junk Food Vegans are in it for the animals!!
Whitney's Fun Food Suggestions! 