Recent Posts – Veggie Runners

Video: Veggie Runners on Made in Leeds TV

You know we Veggie Runners love to chat (and chat). So when the nice people from Made in Leeds TV asked if we’d like to chat to them about The Running Awards, well, we were hardly going to say no, were we? Actually, it was only one Veggie Runner, the other being otherwise occupied with…

Asics Greater Manchester Marathon Race Report – Half and Half Relay

Asics Greater Manchester Marathon is one of the few in the UK (the only?) that offers a half and half relay option. We don’t know why other marathons don’t but we were more than happy to run half each in Manchester. Not because we’re lazy but because we have different races lined up so we’re…

Our London Marathon Weekend

There are many great things about writing Veggie Runners but the best of all has to be the people we get to meet. Spending weekends with each other – yay! – in the company of other runners talking about pretty much nothing but running. Our idea of a great time. Yeah, OK, it’s not for everyone…

5 Amazing Vegetarian Carb-Loading Recipes

If you’re doing a race this weekend, you should be thinking about how you’re going to fuel your run. Carb loading, to be precise. A few days before a race, you need to start thinking about eating extra carbohydrates to give your body the stores of glycogen to avoid a mid-marathon meltdown. We prefer complex…

Vegan Bread and Butter Pudding

One of the great things about having a food and fitness blog, is that we get to experiment in the kitchen to create delicious recipes to tickle your taste buds, dear reader. Sometimes we get so carried away designing delectable dishes – in this case a Vegan Bread and Butter Pudding – that we forget…

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 Almond Butter Ice Cream, with Cherry Swirl

I am seriously proud of this Almond Butter Ice Cream recipe. It’s totally dairy free and free from refined sugar but it’s as delicious as anything you would get from a gelataria, I promise. I am often proud of what we accomplish with Veggie Runners, but this one is totes my Atticus Finch, my…

Vegan Black Bean and Sun Dried Tomato Dip

There’s a song called ‘It May Be Winter Outside (But In My Heart It’s Spring).’ I sing this song around the house. A lot. Bibi says it’s one of the first songs she remembers hearing. I think I like it because it’s zingy and bright and it’s a lovely accentuate-the-positive kind of song. And also…

Happiness Podcasts Rocking My World Right Now

Serial was a gateway podcast, right? We all got hung up on it, worked out how to get our hands on the goods for the first time, and now we’re mainlining them for hours a day, anxious for our next fix. I feel the same way about podcasts as I did when I rediscovered the…

Vegan Yam Curry

I bought a yam from my local market. I’m worldly wise. I’ve travelled widely, spent 9 years studying at university (not being dim just, y’know, not getting a proper job), trained as a caterer and have been cooking for decades. Despite all this, I have to be honest, I knew not what to do with…