Vegan Food Shop - #2

It was evening time in the UK when I headed out to grab some food and after picking up a few items I sat in the small park next to my house as the sun was setting:

There is hardly ever anyone in this little park so it's a great place to chill out. I often sit on the benches under a tree and meditate for some time too, listening to the birds chirp is a delight.

There are a lot of old Victorian buildings in this areas of the city I live in, they look very regal. My late granddad owned a similar type of house to these ones that he ran his PR firm from.

There is also a church across the road too. The bell tower is exposed to the elements in this design. If you look to the left you can see them at the top.

I brought six items in today's shop.

First we have a freshly baked Organic White Loaf 400g:

This particular retailer cooks many of the bakery products fresh each day on site. The fresher the better is definitely a true saying! :)

This shop does sell wholemeal but due to it being the end of the day they only had this one loaf of white left. So even though it doesn't have the rich nutrient value of the brown bread at least it is not grown with nasty chemicals.

White bread still has a good amount of calcium and iron though, great for maintaining healthy and strong bones and blood.

If you take two items side by side, one organic and one non organic, you can taste the difference in quality. The latter has more taste, the goodness is just bursting out of it. Compared to the former non organic choice which is bland, tasteless, and often has a degraded chemical or metal taste. Something that tastes off, unnatural. That is because many of the things that go into making no organic food are harmful and not meant to be ingested by humans.

Organic Houmous 200g

This is probably one of my favorite foods. I never get bored of eating it. It can come in different styles. I like the chilli variant a lot in particular. The one I purchased today however contain another super food: Tahini or sesame seed.

Sesame is packed full of health promoting minerals. It is chocked full of essential nutrients like magnesium and copper. Magnesium is excellent for helping those who suffer from respiratory problems and a adequate supply of copper can help alleviate suffers of rheumatoid arthritis too.

It really is amazing how just the right diet choices can be great preventative and curative measures for health and health problems respectively .

This short video from YouTube captures excellently the great qualities of Chickpeas:

Organic Smooth Peanut Butter 340g

Apart from being a great source of protein, peanut butter is an excellent source of healthy unsaturated dietary fats. In this one tub I got it contains 18.2g of monounsaturated fat and 20.4g of polyunsaturated fat per 100g! This is why I like nut butters so much. I also regularly buy Almond and Pistachio butters too.

This short article from the British Nutrition Foundation explains why some sources of fat are good and others bad: https://www.nutrition.org.uk/healthyliving/basics/fats.html

Organic Soya Milk 1L