HOLY MOLY — THE ANSWER TO
ALL YOUR AVOCADO NIGHTMARES
Brown avocado is not ideal. We’ve all been there. You get to the
fridge, excited to get your creamy, green fix, and find that your
avocado is yet to be ripe and ready. The next day, you return,
only to find it’s suddenly overly ripe. Holy Moly dips could be the
answer.
The new range includes three revolutionary avocado dips
which are full of natural ingredients with no hidden nasties.
Choose from their two guacamole flavours — Saintly Original and
Devilishly Hot — picked from a family-owned Mexican orchard
and mixed with locally sourced ingredients.
And for those of you who prefer your avocado as pure as
the day it was picked? The brand is releasing the first UK pot of
smashed avo, to satisfy all of your avocado needs. No more fear of
slicing into your hand whilst
trying to get that stone out!
The dips will use the latest
in packaging technology to
ensure ultimate freshness,
and are available at Ocado
and Waitrose.
A BOX FULL OF
PLANT GOODNESS
T
he UK’s first
exclusively plant-
based organic
recipe box, Plant Curious,
launched last month in
a crusade to encourage
more people to adhere
to a plant-based diet and
live a healthy, energised
lifestyle.
Plant Curious allows customers to pick a recipe
box which is then delivered to your front door, cutting
out the need to visit a supermarket or green grocers.
The company was born from tragedy when a family
member of one of the co-founders was diagnosed
with incurable cancer. However, after researching the
health benefits of a plant-based diet and taking on
a vegan lifestyle, he lived considerably longer than
the doctors expected. His family were inspired by the
improvement that they saw in him prior to his death
and subsequently Plant Curious was launched.
Bespoke dishes such as a coriander, lime and
turmeric infused coconut curry with chickpeas,
courgettes, spinach and garlic naan breads or
ratatouille roulade mean that meal times will never
be dull. There are over 100 boxes available from
plantcurious.co.ukPizza Express jump on the
dairy-free cheese bandwagon
The lack of a satisfactory cheese alternative is a daily struggle
for many vegans. Finally, Pizza Express has followed in Zizzi’s
footsteps and launched a vegan cheese, and a 100 per cent
vegan pizza, in all of its restaurants across the UK.
The Vegan Giardiniera, which is initially being introduced
as part of the summer specials menu, combines artichokes
with asparagus, red onion, garlic oil, black olives and their
vegan mozzarella alternative. The cheese will be available
on all pizzas across the range including the Pianta — a vegan
favourite.
Pizza Express has also rolled out training to their staff to
educate their restaurants about what being a vegan actually
means and the belief systems which back up the vegan
lifestyle. This means that when you walk into any Pizza
Express restaurant and ask for a vegan option, your waitress
or waiter should know what you need.
As if this news wasn’t good enough, there have been hints
that a vegan chocolate dessert may be arriving on menus
in the future, but for now we’ll take the refreshing Coconut
Delight sorbet.