We made chewy coconut cookies dipped in chocolate!

 These were made from a great recipe by Isa Chandra Moskowitz- they are lovely and chewy because they have ground up flax seeds in them which is an excellent vegan egg replacer. I also make doughnuts using only flax seeds to replace the two eggs in the recipe. Flax, also known as linseed, has a huge range of health benefits as well as being great for replacing eggs in recipes. We sell linseed in our very vegan shop VegaNation (at www.veganation.co.uk ) so please come and buy some. The hens will thank you!!

  Eggs are completely unnecessary in our diet and hens are one of the most abused animal in today's industrialised farming. In this photo, (courtesy of Farm Sanctuary) you can get some idea of the conditions that hens endure in their short stressful lives as egg producing machines.

 Oh wow! One of the children just spotted a baby vole hiding in the back hall; we thought that one of the VegaNation cats had caught a creature and then let it go in the house, but although we searched and searched we couldn't find anything. Then,a few minutes later, one of the children realised that there must be a creature inside a hat which was strategically placed on the floor. She swooped to pick up the hat  and when we peeped inside we found a very active young vole that we were able to release immediately.