Sausages

• Impossible Sausages This brand offers 

  • Fat brat-type sausages usually in the meat isle with other ground beef and sausages. These are great fried up in a pan with some canola or vegan butter and eaten with some veggies and mashed potatoes. You can also take them out of the pan once they are cooked on the outside and chop them into coins, then fry them on each side before throwing them into pasta, spaghetti, egg foo yung, or whatever feels right.

  • Breakfast patties, usually in the frozen isle's vegan section. These are nice to just snack on, in sandwiches or really however.

  • Those gross/soft tubes of "uncooked meat" - I hate touching this because it feels so much like real meat and the spices stick to my hands as I'm trying to wash the grease off. That said this stuff is great for making DIY sausages, sausage rolls, pasta bakes, and I'm betting it'd work for vegan or vegetarian scotch eggs.

• Lightlife Dogs are soy-based, gluten-free, and high in potassium. They come in small and jumbo sizes, but both taste the same.

Tools & Apps

Finding Safe Food

As a gluten-free vegan, I've found the best way to find food is to search with both of the following apps, and see which restaurants pop up in both. Then check out their online menu's/reviews to see if the foods overlap. If that info isn't available, calling the restaurant often clears up any lingering safety questions.

• Find Me Gluten Free "Either plan ahead by entering your destination or find places near your current location. New restaurants listed every day all across the world!" This app focuses on GF food, but some of the restaurant descriptions or reviews will mention or show menus with soy-free, nut-free, and other allergy friendly options.

• Happy Cow "find vegan restaurants nearby" great for eating locally or traveling internationally.

Diet Tracking

People with dietary restrictions are at higher risk of nutrient deficiencies, and even more so when we are very active. To be on the safe side, it helps to use a diet tracker, and the one bellow is the best I've found so far.

• Cronometer Free diet-tracking app allows you to create new foods and recipes, which saves a lot of time if you make big batches and eat lots of left-overs. There's also a "Copy to today" option if you left-click a food you already ate, "explode recipe" and other useful features.

Infographics

• Hidden Soy Learn how soy has snuck into most of our food, especially via livestock feed, which is much less sustainable or efficient than consuming soy directly.

Grants & Funding

International

• Beyond Animal "Where investors and vegan businesses meet" "Using technology, for online funding, networking and business services, to accelerate the transition to an economy free of animal exploitation. Our vision: a kinder, cleaner, healthier world."

• EA Animal Welfare Fund "The Animal Welfare Fund supports advocacy, research, and movement-building work aimed at improving the wellbeing of nonhuman animals, primarily farmed and wild animals. This includes corporate and policy advocacy, research, and the promotion of alternative products."