These Salted Peanut Butter Energy Balls taste like they’ve been sent from heaven after a long run. The sodium and other minerals we lose during exercise need to be replaced and what better way than with the sea salt energy balls as delicious as these? Bibi rather surprised me singing about chocolate salty balls when…
Vegan Spiced Pumpkin Soup
Everyone loves a warming winter soup and this Vegan Spiced Pumpkin Soup is one of the very best. Guaranteed. It’s really easy to make too and this recipe gives 6-8 servings – depends on how hungry/greedy you are… or maybe on how much running you’ve done before supper time. Either way, it makes plenty for…
Melon and Ginger Recovery Smoothie
This vegan Melon and Ginger Recovery Smoothie uses a secret ingredient – the melon seeds. Melon seeds have some great health benefits, which happen to be perfect for runners when combined with the other ingredients in this delicious recovery smoothie. And, if you run regularly, you’ll know that recovery foods matter. There’s a strange contradiction in…
Vegan Chocolate Coconut Treats
If you’re not a fan of coconut look away now. These are the most delicious, most coconut-y, vegan, chocolatey sweet treats ever. These also demonstrate just how much we get from the humble coconut. They contain creamed coconut (the kind comes in a block), coconut milk, dessicated coconut and coconut essence. The dark chocolate balances the…
Hazelnut and Date Breakfast Smoothie
As you know, we Veggie Runners love a hearty breakfast. Indeed, sometimes we love breakfast so much we have two. True fact. Occasionally, though, life gets in the way – flights to catch, early meetings, even earlier runs, that kind of thing – and the best option is to have a breakfast shake ready to…
Vegan Savoury Crumble
Savoury crumble is always a winner. It’s perfect for a big Sunday lunch with all the trimmings. While the meat eaters are chewing on whatever it is they chew on, you can bask in the splendour of this lovely, light vegan alternative. You can serve it with roast potatoes, vegetarian gravy and all the trimmings….
Vegan Protein Pancakes
Image: Zsolt Sandor / MothershipUK Shrove Tuesday, Pancake Day, Mardi Gras – it’s time to fatten yourself up before the privations of Lent, if you happen to believe in such things. I didn’t turn out to be quite the good Catholic girl my dear, departed father hoped for but I do still give something up every…
Vegan Gingerbread-Spiced Protein Granola Bars
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a woman, upon finishing a half-marathon, will be in want of ALL THE FOOD. I created these protein filled bars to save my life after the Great North Run. They’re based on a recipe from the really wonderful Oh She Glows, who does incredibly beautiful vegan recipes. Her…
Vegan Apricot and Chia Seed Smoothie
Bibi’s grandma, Shirley*, is going through a bit of a phase at the moment. She’s trying to get rid of clutter and keeps pointing at mad things that I emphatically don’t want and saying ‘That’s yours’. Usually I pretend I haven’t heard. When she pointed to these vintage cut glass crystal glasses though, I said…
Vegan Aubergine and Roasted Red Onion Dip
It’s picnic season here in the UK so we’ve been busy cooking up dips, spreads and other forms of transportable deliciousness. This Vegan Aubergine and Roasted Red Onion Dip fits the bill perfectly; we had this along with several other treats for post-race refuelling after the Castle Howard 10k recently. Worth the run for the…
Vegan Pesto
This recipe comes from our fabulous Canadian friends, Lehna and Jamie (who are known to their adoring public as burlesque goddess, Champagne Sparkles, and sound artist extraordinaire Jamie Drouin). This is a stunningly straightforward vegan pesto that (sharp intake of breath) gives some of our own recipes a run for their money in the ‘yow, that…