Vegan-friendly food companies

Beanie's - Beanie’s is a Vegan Society-approved, family business that imports Fry’s Vegetarian Foods. Fry’s Vegetarian is a food company based in South Africa which produces a wide range of vegan substitutes for popular meat dishes, such as sausage rolls, veggie burgers, steak pies, chicken nuggets, etc. Recommended as a BEST BUY by the Ethical Consumer, and winning the Best Vegan Meat category in the VegFest UK 2011 Awards, Fry’s are also Halal, Shuddha and Kosher. Fry’s products are available at organic food stores across the UK.

Bute Island - One of the most common reasons given for not giving up dairy produce used to be that there wasn’t an acceptable dairy-free alternative to cheese, that really tasted of cheese. All that changed in 1988. Bute Island Foods started making their own scrummy vegan cheese, known as Sheese. Fast forward twenty four years and there are now 11 flavours of hard dairy-free cheese including their delicious new MELTY flavours – Melty Mild Cheddar and Melty Red Cheddar, available at all UK organic food stores. You really don’t have to miss out any more - and rest assured, no animals have suffered to satisfy your taste buds. So smile, and say Sheese!

Natuarl Vitality - Natural Vitality has been providing those lucky enough to live in the Bristol and Bath area with scrumptious organic vegetarian dips, salads, soups and cakes for many years.
Naturally they use locally sourced ingredients whenever they can, and everything is handmade in small batches so they can guarantee the best possible quality and flavour.
Not only is everything they make organic and vegetarian, but most are vegan and certified gluten-free as well.
This all helps to fulfil their ultimate aim: to provide ethical, guilt-free, tasty food for everyone to enjoy.
You can find a Natural Vitality stall every Wednesday in Bristol Farmers’ Market on Corn Street. You can also find many Natural Vitality products in most organic food stores.

Goody Good Stuff - Goody Good Stuff is an all natural, meat free alternative to traditional gummy sweets. They are free from FAT, GMOs, SOY, GELATINE, EGG, NUTs, DAIRY, CASEINS and GLUTEN. The entire line is suitable for Kosher, Halal and vegetarian diets with 4 flavours being suitable for vegan diets too! This year the Goody Good Stuff vegan sweets rank third in the Best Vegan Sweets or Cake Range Awards at VegFest UK. Goody Good Stuff gums are available at Waitrose, Holland and Barrett as well as many organic food stores.

Pulsin' - Pulsin’ makes functional snacks using premium wholefood ingredients, in their own factory based in Gloucestershire, UK. They strongly believe in protecting the environment, and minimising their own impact where possible. They run our factory on 100% renewable energy from Ecotricity, an ethical company who reinvest a large proportion of their profits in developing wind turbines to provide more green electricity for the grid. Pulsin’ snack bars are available in many UK organic food stores.

Plamil Foods - Plamil chocolate is almost ‘guilt free indulgence’. With their range of luxury mini chocolate bars together with their dairy free, organic, no added sugar chocolate and carob bars, and scrumptious organic chocolate spread there’s truly something for everyone’s taste. Their mayo range is just delightful in taste. With no egg, so everyone including those seeking to avoid eggs can enjoy! Plamil’s chocolate range has been nominated in the Best Vegan Sweets or Cake Range category at the VegFest this year. You can order their products on their webpage.

Amy's Kitchen - Amy’s Kitchen is a family firm who produces a wide range of veggie foods that are healthy, delicious and mostly ready to eat. Their products include tinned soups (most of which are vegan) as well as burgers, pies, Indian meals, burritos and so much more. These are very welcoming to those of us who want to eat healthily but are too busy to cook from scratch. Amy’s Kitchen products are available in most UK supermarkets as well as organic food stores.

Community Foods - In a nutshell, Community Foods are Britain's experts in the procurement, sale and distribution of organic and natural dried fruits, nuts, seeds, pulses, grains and branded health foods. Whether it's retail or wholesale packs, or a container direct to your door, they're flexible enough to get it done. They carry a large stockholding of some of the best known health food brands from around the world, including Community's very own Crazy Jack Organic and Sanchi Japanese ranges.
And they don't stop at food... they are proud to offer a 'greener' selection of everyday household and lifestyle products - from washing up liquid to firelighters for barbeques!

Vegusto - Vegusto is the award-winning producer of plant-based meats and cheeses. These are made with soya and nuts, and are much higher in nutritional value than their conventional animal-based counterparts. Besides, Vegusto also takes into serious consideration the environmental impact of its choices of ingredients. For instance, their choice of coconut oil instead of palm oil not only encompasses numerous health benefits, but also guarantees sound environmental practices and sustainability. Most Vegusto products are available in many organic food stores across the UK.

Doves Farm - Doves Farm are organic flour and gluten free flour specialists. They have separate mills for organic and gluten free flours as well as a separate bakery. The Doves Farm story began at their farm near Hungerford in 1978. They make organic and gluten free products including great tasting bread flours, biscuits, cookies, cereal bars, breakfast cereals, pasta & baking requisites. At the heart of the business they are organic flour specialists.
Doves Farm Foods is also committed to ethical trading systems which develop transparent national and International trading relationships, uphold the integrity and quality of the products, as well as respecting fair remuneration and work conditions for all colleagues in a supply chain.

Happy Kitchen - Happy Kitchen is the UK`s first entirely Free From Bakery. They lovingly craft their products from nature`s finest ingredients. Their products are gluten, dairy & egg free, sweetened with fruit, and vegan!
Happy Kitchen was created by two lifelong friends Ellie Pennington & Lisa Stockton from their love of baking.... but with a twist! ... Since a young age, the girls were diagnosed as allergic to dairy, gluten and have a huge dislike for sugar! For cake lovers - a disaster! But alas, not for long. They took their hands to endless experiments to find a way back into eating delicious treats again!
Happy Kitchen now hand-make a vast array of beautiful & decadent sweet treats to delight & nourish both body & taste buds.... Their brownie bars are their best selling product and they are keen for you to try them! Made from a handful of simple ingredients, they really are a unique little treat.

Montezuma's - Providing Chocolate Gifts and Luxury Handmade Chocolate Bars in the UK. Montezuma’s entire range of chocolate bars, truffles, fruits and drinking chocolate is made by them in Chichester, West Sussex.
Helen and Simon founded Montezuma's in 2000 hand making their luxury chocolate bars, truffles and gifts with one little machine from one shop in Brighton. Since those early days Montezuma's is now established as Britain's leading and most innovative family luxury chocolate maker with a reputation far wider than a handful of shops and network of lovely independent retailers. It remains entirely a family love affair with chocolate!
The company’s range of chocolate is available through Waitrose and more than 2000 selected independent retailers across the UK and overseas including Liberty, The Eden Project, Moonpig.com, Wholefoods Market, House of Fraser and John Lewis, as well as through its own shops in Brighton, Chichester, Winchester, Kingston-upon-Thames and Spitalfields market, London.

Mr Popple's - Mr Popple, believe it or not, is this chocolate entrepreneur's real name. Better known as Ben Popple, he was born and raised in the county town of Stafford - great for access to country produce and summer festivals, which is where he first tried raw cacao.
Mr Popple's chocolate is made entirely by hand, which he believes creates a superior chocolate as there is no over-refining. The cacao is kept at a low temperature as this preserves the beneficial enzymes that are normally broken down by high temperature roasting. Making the chocolate by hand allows Mr Popple to incorporate his secret chocolate making technique.
He has stuck to his intentions by using only tasty, natural, and healthy ingredients, not adding any fat or refined sugar and by sourcing only ethically grown ingredients. The packaging is even 100% recycled - Mr Popple's really is guilt free chocolate!
Mr Popple’s Chocolate is available in Bristol in:

Queenswood Foods - Queenswood Foods are an independent wholesaler based close to the M5 motorway in Somerset. With a truly comprehensive range, they are one of the leading wholesalers to the health food and organic trade. They also specialise in supplying a wide range of commodities and ingredients to the food manufacturing industry. Utilising their own fleet of vehicles, they carry out regular deliveries to a large area covering the West Country, theSouth and South East of England, South Wales and theMidlands. Please call them to check your location.

Tropical Wholefoods - Tropical Wholefoods is the home of Fairtrade and Organic dried fruits, nuts and snack bars. They have won lasting markets for farmers from developing countries for more than 20 years. They pay fair prices in advance, and market farmers’ products, run their own UK factory and share useful technology and experience with their overseas partners.