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A few weeks ago, I received a lovely parcel in the post consisting of Eat Vive’s brand new flavours of their vegan friendly snack bars, with, and you heard me, 10g of protein in them! EACH!! Being a third year English student who spends the majority of their life studying in the library, I am always looking for new snacks to bring along with me to keep me going. I knew I had to give these a whirl immediately.  Instagram: emeatsvegan All the bars have a dark chocolate coating on them with a variety of different fillings to suit you. The three new flavours are… Peanut Butter Instagram: emeatsvegan This is the first bar I tried, seeing as peanut butter is one of my favourite snack ingredients. And I can confidently say that this bar did NOT disappoint. I did try this one as soon as I opened my parcel, (I am impatient), even though I was not necessarily hungry at the time, so I wasn’t sure if these were the answer to my library stomach grumbles quite yet. But still,...

A couple of weeks ago Meatless Farm company reached out to me on Instagram and asked if I would like to try their new plant-based mince. Plant-based? Mince? Of course, I said yes.  Instagram: @_sunfl0werseed Within a couple of days, I received a voucher for Sainsbury’s and off I went to my local store to pick it up. I found it lying among Sainsbury’s vegan range, (which may I add is AMAZING). I never shop in Sainsbury’s purely because I am a poor student and would rather get my deals in Aldi, but wow, I was impressed!  When I spotted the mince, I was a little nervous. It looks like THIS. Instagram: emeatsvegan A couple of months ago there was a huge hype about a new plant-based mince from Naturli, which could be found amongst  real  mincemeat. I actually never got around to trying Naturli’s mince because I was extremely put off by how real it looked.  Naturli's meat free mince Instagram: @naturli I am embarrassed to say that I ...

Side note: please read part one of my Eating Vegan In Madrid series before you get in to this post. You can read part one here. Day Four: Long Walks, Pool Day and a Night to Not Remember  It was our fourth day of our trip and tonight was the night that we had planned to go out, so we allowed ourselves to have a little bit of a lie in this morning as we did not want to be too tired to go out at night.  It was approaching 36 degrees in Madrid and we were hot, sweaty and wanted a dip in a pool. We googled pools that were close to us and found only one that was open on a Saturday and that was a reasonable distance away from where we were staying.  The pool was called Casa de Campo and it was a thirty-six-minute walk from our hotel. As we were staying bang in the centre of Madrid, we hadn’t ventured too far out of that area, except for when we visited the stadium the day before. We ate near our hotel, and most of the big attractions such as the Royal Palace were...