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I have been back in Leeds for a couple of weeks now and let me tell you I have been BUSY. I woke up last Tuesday morning ready to attack a full day of uni work before I needed to head into town to try the new Twisted London vegan menu, (blog post soon to come). However, just as I sat down at my desk with my laptop open, I received a message on Instagram from Pure Agency asking if I would like to come down and try the new vegan menu at The Ivy. Food or uni work I asked myself? Food every time.  I had never been to any of The Ivy restaurants and didn’t even know they even had a vegan menu, so I was very excited for me first visit. I arrived at The Ivy for 12:30 in the afternoon with two of the women from Pure, a few journalists and a nutritionist who was going to give us some tips and tricks on how to stick to those new year’s resolutions.  My first impression of The Ivy was that it was STUNNING. The décor is truly amazing and even the toilets are decorated beautifu...

Back in December, I was turning 21 and I had no idea how I wanted to celebrate. I was sat in my university house when I got a text from my mum saying she had booked for me and my family to go to Prague for three days over Christmas to celebrate my birthday. I was THRILLED, (thanks mum and dad).  We were due to fly on boxing day at 4pm, so the evening of Christmas day was spent packing for the next three days in Prague. It was lovely to have something to look forward to after Christmas in order to rid of those Boxing Day blues.  Day One: Flying, Cheap Beer and Late Dinners Time soon flew by and before we knew it, we were off to Birmingham Airport to catch our flight. We landed in Prague at around 8pm and the first thing we did was head straight to the pub. We had a couple of beers (which worked out to be less than a pound each!!!) and waiting for the host of our apartment to arrive.    We were staying right in the centre next to Old Town Square, so ...

I know what you are all thinking. It’s 3 rd  of January, Christmas was over a week ago and no one cares what you ate on Christmas day anymore, Emma. All I can say is I am fully aware of all of this. I should have written this blog post before Christmas day, but honestly, I have been SO busy this festive period. I have not had time to sit down and write in a whole month. (I’m glad I’m still making excuses as to why I don’t update my blog weekly anymore.) So, even though I know no one asked for it, I’m going to give it you. Here is what I ate on Christmas day.  Breakfast I woke up at around 9am and headed downstairs ready to start the festivities. I remember the times I would wake up at 5am and annoy my parents by jumping on their bed, begging them to get up so I could open all of my presents. But having just turned 21, unfortunately, the novelty of waking up at the crack of dawn has miraculously worn off, (much to my parents’ relief).  For me, Christmas day is a...

It was 6am on a Tuesday morning and I was up bright and early ready to make the four-hour journey from Shrewsbury to Billericay for a job interview.  After four hours of travelling, one hour at my job interview, whilst running on two slices of toast consumed at 6.30am that morning, it was now 1pm and unsurprisingly, I was starving.  Coming from the West Midlands and going to university up north in Leeds, I never get the chance to go to London, (simply because if you don’t book months in advance the train prices are extortionate). Seeing as I had come such a long way, I knew I wanted to spend the rest of the day in London, so it made sense for me to find somewhere to eat in the city.  Having a vegan Instagram, (which you should definitely follow, @emeatsvegan), and with 30% of my followers coming from London, I see a lot of vegan food from eateries in London on my feed, the most popular being the infamous Temple of Seitan. If I was coming to London, the one pl...

Before I get into this post, I would just like to warn you that this is not going to be the most detailed post on what to eat at Boomtown you have ever read in your life. The reason for this is I genuinely cannot remember half of my week, and I do not think I need to explain why. Anyway, I hope this gives you some insight as to how I coped with eating vegan at a festival. Enjoy. This was my second festival I had been to as a vegan, (I went to Creamfields last year), however, Boomtown is twice the size of Creamfields and I had already heard that the options for vegans were endless. So, I was very excited to see what Boomtown had to offer. It helped that I was going to Boomtown with my two friends who were vegan and vegetarian.  The Preparations  The first thing I did was go shopping for snacks to eat during the day. I had decided I was going to eat one hot meal a day and then snack on food I had bought with me if I ever got hungry, (which would be very likely consid...