Tasty vegan products in the Low Countries

Emilie · **Posted:** Fri Oct 05, 2012 12:27 pm

Bun wrote:

muffinpants wrote:

Emilie wrote:

(has anyone tried the speculoos choco spread?)

It is soooo good.

I bought it yesterday. And used a spoon. No shame.

but?
Is there another way to eat it?

muffinpants · **Joined:** Thu Feb 17, 2011 6:52 pm **Posts:** 41

Bun wrote:

muffinpants wrote:

Emilie wrote:

(has anyone tried the speculoos choco spread?)

It is soooo good.

I bought it yesterday. And used a spoon. No shame.

Ha, I also ate it with a spoon!

lepelaar · **Posted:** Fri Oct 05, 2012 3:03 pm

Have you guys found big jars? We only found small jars at the Colruyt, but I have a feeling that once I taste it I'm gonna need a big jar.

Emilie · **Posted:** Fri Oct 05, 2012 3:12 pm

400g is all I've seen so far

(TOO SMALL FOR LADLES!)

Emilie · **Posted:** Fri Oct 05, 2012 3:39 pm

(I bought a jar several days ago and it's not finished yet. Do you think I shall see a doctor?)

Bun · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 12:39 pm

So this is happening at Lidl:

They appear to be vegan! Update on noms will follow.

Bun · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 12:43 pm

The ingredients aren't listed in English, sorry!

Bun · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 2:58 pm

Oh my sweet baby Jesus.

Emilie · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 3:00 pm

Bun wrote:

Oh my sweet baby Jesus.

Stop this!

lepelaar · **Posted:** Fri Oct 12, 2012 3:25 pm

Whoohoo! Vegan bagels at the AH! I've avoided buying their bakery bagels because they don't usually list the ingredients and when they do, they don't specify if their emulsifiers are plant-based. Today I checked again, just in case, and they had a full ingredient list, and specified that their emulsifier is soy-based! Wheee!!!

Bun · **Posted:** Sat Oct 13, 2012 3:05 am

Wooo thanks for the info!!

muffinpants · **Joined:** Thu Feb 17, 2011 6:52 pm **Posts:** 41

Yes! I was just complaining about not being able to find bagels!

Bun · **Posted:** Mon Oct 15, 2012 3:11 pm

I checked and the emulsifier info says "soy lecithin, E471", right? These things are NOT the same... E471 = mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids :(

Paloma · **Joined:** Wed Jan 18, 2012 4:25 am **Posts:** 1027

Isn't it the case that pretty much every bread in every supermarket has E471 or E472 in it?

lepelaar · **Posted:** Mon Oct 15, 2012 6:46 pm

I don't have the packaging anymore, but read it a few times (because I wasn't sure I could believe my eyes) and I could have sworn it said that the source of the E471 was soy. I thought I checked carefully enough, and I never buy stuff with E471 unless it specifies that it's plant-derived. (The brood at the Dirk does specify this, for example.) I'll be really bummed if my old-lady eyes failed me on this one. :(

Bun · **Posted:** Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:26 pm

Paloma wrote:

Isn't it the case that pretty much every bread in every supermarket has E471 or E472 in it?

A lot of bread does, but not all. I eat AH grof volkoren, allison and allison bio. Most of the Jumbo Goudeerlijk brood is vegan, as well as some breads at Lidl.

lutin · **Posted:** Wed Oct 17, 2012 11:47 am

My localist toko sells Thai ice cream made by Foco which is three things only: coconut milk, sugar and {fruit} - durian (gross!), coconut {yum!} or mango {triple yum!}. It rivals the amazing coconut based ice cream lepelaar was going on about up-thread.

Paloma · **Joined:** Wed Jan 18, 2012 4:25 am **Posts:** 1027

Bun wrote:

Paloma wrote:

Isn't it the case that pretty much every bread in every supermarket has E471 or E472 in it?

A lot of bread does, but not all. I eat AH grof volkoren, allison and allison bio. Most of the Jumbo Goudeerlijk brood is vegan, as well as some breads at Lidl.

<3 I couldn't be bothered to read all of them, so for the very few times I actually eat bread, I now know which ones to get. Happy to know this, Bun. Thanks !

Bun · **Posted:** Sat Oct 20, 2012 12:02 pm

YW! Also, sad times:

lepelaar · **Posted:** Sat Oct 20, 2012 2:51 pm

Well crepe. My little old lady eyes did deceive me. I didn't see the "en" at the end of "emulgator" and assumed that the E471 was the soy lecithin. :(

lutin · **Posted:** Sat Oct 20, 2012 3:44 pm

So that means there's no chance the E471 is vegan?

Cornelie · **Posted:** Sat Oct 20, 2012 3:54 pm

It could be, but AH is usually very sketchy about the source of their e-numbers. There is this though: http://www.veganisme.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8350

Might be a good idea to mail AH again to see if someone can confirm that the sketchy numbers are plant-based. I don't eat a lot of bread and I'm not very careful about e-numbers either, so I'm not the right person for the job.

Veg_Eric · **Joined:** Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:34 am **Posts:** 2206

lutin wrote:

So that means there's no chance the E471 is vegan?

It can be vegan but it's one of those things you'll never know for sure.
http://www.food-info.net/uk/e/e471.htm

Bun · **Posted:** Mon Oct 22, 2012 3:14 pm

DUDES. Verkade has something new... Broskoekjes! They are IDENTICAL to McVitie's fruit shortcake, and I'm 100% sure Verkade bought their recipe. NOM.

http://www.verkade.nl/producten/koekjes ... roskoekje/

Cornelie · **Posted:** Tue Oct 23, 2012 10:10 am

Yummy those look really good.

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