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Best Vegan Ready Meals

Winner! Highly Commended
M&S Plant commended Tesco Wicked Kitchen
Kitchen Green Mitch’s Kitchen Naked Burrito
Thai Curry Spanish Tapas £4 Available from Tesco stores
£3.50 Available at all £6.75 Available online and Tesco’s attempt to bring vegan cuisine
M&S stores from selected retailers into the mainstream has resulted in a
M&S Plant Kitchen meals are Mitch’s Kitchen’s colourful meals are collaboration with chef Derek Sarno
vegan, hearty and a perfect on- vegan, free from gluten, nuts, palm oil to create Wicked Kitchen. The Naked

the-go dinner option. The Green Thai and refined sugar. The Spanish Tapas Burrito is made from spiced mixed
Curry is served with jasmine rice and includes roasted hand rolled garlic beans, tomato rice, pulled marinated
the fish flavour sauce is created using and herb ‘Beet Balls’, skin-on patatas roasting oyster mushrooms, kale and

fermented chilli paste and toban jhan. bravas served in a rich tomato sauce spiced mixed vegetable, topped with
with spinach, butter beans and black jalapeño chilli and lime wedge.

“Big flavour, olives with a side of tofu frittatas.

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Ready – Ben Pook, So Vegan
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“Nice variety “Well balanced

“Good strong of flavours, with just enough

flavour with a good spices and enough heat and
nice bit of kick. seasoning. A good healthy some veggies and refried
Good creamy sauce, option” – Maryanne Hall, Viva!’s beans” – Ben Pook, So Vegan

definitely not bland.” recipe writer
– Maryanne Hall, Viva!
Best Vegan Sandwich Highly commended patty made from red pepper, spicy chilli,
M&S No Turkey Feast
garlic and red onion. Subway has also created
£3.30 Available from M&S stores a vegan garlic aioli to pair with the sub, but
Part of the M&S Plant Kitchen range, this you can add whatever veggies and sauces
sandwich replaces traditional festive meat you like! Other vegan friendly sauces include
Winner! with seasoned roasted soya. The mock meat is BBQ, sweet onion, yellow mustard, HP brown
Tesco, Wicked Italian Cold marinated with sage, garlic, salt and pepper, sauces, sweet chilli and hot chilli.
Cut Sandwich and then steam roasted.
£3 Available from Tesco stores “Patty has a good
Wicked Kitchen are pushing the boundaries “Nice and moist, texture” – Jenni Tame,

of vegan cuisine with their cold cut sub. This interesting flavour, I like The Hungry Herbie
tasty sub is a mixed herb roll, filled with the use of mock meats.

roasted celeriac, dairy-free smoked Gouda A good shop-bought option” “Bread is nice and
style cheese, green peppers and spinach. – Maryanne Hall, Viva!’s recipe writer crispy, like the
fresh veggies”
“Love the pickled pepper “I like the wholemeal – Roxy Pope, So Vegan

and smoked ‘cheese’. bread, nice flavour to the
Very satisfying and fake meat”
clever use of celeriac” – – Roxy Pope, So Vegan
Stu Henshall, The Alternative Kitchen
“Good flavour, great use Commended

of vegetables as meat, Subway Vegan Sub
cheese is good and not £3.80
waxy. Great texture and taste” Made with either
– Jenni Tame, The Hungry Herbie Italian or Hearty
Awards 2020
Italian bread,
the Vegan Sub WINNER
features a vegan
Best Vegan
Sandwich
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