Guest guest Posted March 12, 2003 Report Share Posted March 12, 2003 One of the glories of living in London is the abundance of *interesting* grocery shops, having mooched caribbean and chinese grocers, I discovered a fairly local mediterranean supermarket... As well as nice (but relatively available) things like tins of stuffed vineleaves, aubergines in tomato sauce, olives etc., they also do jars of paprika sauce which seem to basically be pureed aubergine & red pepper... I think it's meant to be an ingredient but it's great just spread on toast. Lots of lovely sheets of filo-type pastry too (£1.40 for quite a few sheets), *and* angels hair pastry strands to try and make interesting things with (both being just flour, water, salt if I remember correctly, and fresh from the fridge). It's amazing how much good vegan food hides in these places, and how cheap they are for interesting things. They also do wonderful (and huge) jars of pickles... The shop in question is : Mediterannean Food Centre, Streatham Hill, London on the off-chance anyone finds themselves in the area. Not much good for people in small places, and one of the things that makes it hard to consider the leaving the city and getting some peace and quiet :-) Trying to add some noise to the list, maybe we can get a " shop review " thread going :-) Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 12, 2003 Report Share Posted March 12, 2003 Don't forget to check out the lactic acid in olives, think it's not always vegan. Tho sorry to post such a negative reply... let me think of something more interesting/useful... hmm.... Got it! We've got a handy little " corner shop " that has started selling fresh (sometimes!) fruit & veg. But it's on a main road that has quite a lot of traffic so I'm a bit wary of the fumes - would they contaminate the food? Viv " You'll Never Walk Alone with a Basenji " www.veganvillage.co.uk www.bookcrossing.com - free a book today! www.vegansociety.com Steve Welburn [] Wednesday, March 12, 2003 6:58 PM Shops with vegan stuff One of the glories of living in London is the abundance of *interesting* grocery shops, having mooched caribbean and chinese grocers, I discovered a fairly local mediterranean supermarket... As well as nice (but relatively available) things like tins of stuffed vineleaves, aubergines in tomato sauce, olives etc., they also do jars of paprika sauce which seem to basically be pureed aubergine & red pepper... I think it's meant to be an ingredient but it's great just spread on toast. Lots of lovely sheets of filo-type pastry too (£1.40 for quite a few sheets), *and* angels hair pastry strands to try and make interesting things with (both being just flour, water, salt if I remember correctly, and fresh from the fridge). It's amazing how much good vegan food hides in these places, and how cheap they are for interesting things. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.461 / Virus Database: 260 - Release 10/03/03 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 12, 2003 Report Share Posted March 12, 2003 > Don't forget to check out the lactic acid in olives, think > it's not always vegan. Well... one of the joys of vegandom is that looking at ingredient lists so much, I've started judging them on length. If there's more than a couple of ingredients in something basic, I'll look for one with fewer ingredients. I'm sure that most food in supermarkets these days doesn't sit around long enough to really *need* all the preservatives etc. that they shove in... So lactic acid in the olives basically means I'll look for a more straightforward ingredient list (for preference, olives in oil...). Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 12, 2003 Report Share Posted March 12, 2003 I do exactly the same. Particularly with things I know how to make, like bread - that should be flour, salt,sugar, water, oil, yeast .. flour improver is acceptable since it is only Vitamin C. I was horrified when looking at the ingredient labels of bread in the US - twice as long as anything you'd see here! Another rule I live by is " if I can't pronounce it, I don't want to eat it " . At 11:32 PM 3/12/2003 +0000, you wrote: > > Don't forget to check out the lactic acid in olives, think > > it's not always vegan. > >Well... one of the joys of vegandom is that looking at ingredient lists so >much, I've started judging them on length. If there's more than a couple of >ingredients in something basic, I'll look for one with fewer ingredients. >I'm sure that most food in supermarkets these days doesn't sit around long >enough to really *need* all the preservatives etc. that they shove in... So >lactic acid in the olives basically means I'll look for a more >straightforward ingredient list (for preference, olives in oil...). > >Steve > > >~~ info ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Please remember that the above is only the opinion of the author, >there may be another side to the story you have not heard. >--------------------------- >Was this message Off Topic? Did you know? Was it snipped? >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Guidelines: visit <site temporarily offline> >Un: send a blank message to - > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 13, 2003 Report Share Posted March 13, 2003 On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 23:40:27 +0000, Tracy Hartley <mekn46 wrote: >I was horrified when looking at the ingredient labels of bread in the US - >twice as long as anything you'd see here! That might explain a few things! :-) Chris W Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 15, 2003 Report Share Posted March 15, 2003 I actually stopped shopping at a local fruit and veg shop in favour of supermarkets a bit further away because the man smokes in the back room of the shop, with not even a door in between the back room and the shop itself. The shop was full of the stench of tobacco smoke, and that is a much more concentrated poison than traffic fumes from the road in my opinion (it certainly affects me more, whether or not it contaminates the food, although I do agree that traffic fumes are pretty bad). One would think that small shopkeepers would make more of an effort to keep up good standards and not smoke in work. I also don't buy from market stalls where the people selling fruit and veg are smoking (and amazingly I've seen quite a few), it's much more intrusive on my airspace than trafic fumes I find. We have a Budgens supermarket quite near us which has some interesting looking Sri Lankan tinned vegan foods but the ones I tried were all extremely hot and spicy unfortunately, more so than any Indian food I've tasted. I got a tin of ackees there the other day too. They used to have a little organic section as well with some of the vegan Dove's Farm biscuits and Seeds of Change sauces. Lesley Viv [vc27] 12 March 2003 19:11 RE: Shops with vegan stuff Don't forget to check out the lactic acid in olives, think it's not always vegan. Tho sorry to post such a negative reply... let me think of something more interesting/useful... hmm.... Got it! We've got a handy little " corner shop " that has started selling fresh (sometimes!) fruit & veg. But it's on a main road that has quite a lot of traffic so I'm a bit wary of the fumes - would they contaminate the food? Viv " You'll Never Walk Alone with a Basenji " www.veganvillage.co.uk www.bookcrossing.com - free a book today! www.vegansociety.com Steve Welburn [] Wednesday, March 12, 2003 6:58 PM Shops with vegan stuff One of the glories of living in London is the abundance of *interesting* grocery shops, having mooched caribbean and chinese grocers, I discovered a fairly local mediterranean supermarket... As well as nice (but relatively available) things like tins of stuffed vineleaves, aubergines in tomato sauce, olives etc., they also do jars of paprika sauce which seem to basically be pureed aubergine & red pepper... I think it's meant to be an ingredient but it's great just spread on toast. Lots of lovely sheets of filo-type pastry too (£1.40 for quite a few sheets), *and* angels hair pastry strands to try and make interesting things with (both being just flour, water, salt if I remember correctly, and fresh from the fridge). It's amazing how much good vegan food hides in these places, and how cheap they are for interesting things. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.461 / Virus Database: 260 - Release 10/03/03 ~~ info ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please remember that the above is only the opinion of the author, there may be another side to the story you have not heard. --------------------------- Was this message Off Topic? Did you know? Was it snipped? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Guidelines: visit <site temporarily offline> Un: send a blank message to - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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