We went to a Vegan Ice Cream Sundae Party!

  One of the other mothers in our Home Education Group had the brilliant idea of holding a vegan 'Summer Sundae' event this afternoon. She's not actually vegan but is very 'vegan friendly' so this was a lovely opportunity for another works outing for VegaNation!

  We arrived with empty (turquoise and magenta!) sundae glasses and soon had them filled up with jelly and  Booja Booja and Swedish Glace dairy free ice cream in a range of flavours: chocolate, vanilla, pecan and maple syrup, neopolitan, ginger and coconut. We had roasted chopped hazelnuts and slivered almonds, raspberries, enormous black cherries, strawberries and blueberries to go and top, and custard and chocolate sauce to pour over the top. We had so much stuff that some chocolate buttons got overlooked and had to be passed around afterwards!
  It was an amazing treat for the children and they really loved their sundaes. We have an ice cream maker at home- vegan children love ice cream just as much as non-vegan children and the supply of vegan ice cream in supermarkets is often very patchy, and there's usually not much choice, so we rarely buy ice cream now as we mostly make our own. We've made all sorts of ice cream, including lots of inventions but we normally only have one kind at a time so this ice cream extravaganza was a lot of fun for us. I thought the Booja Booja chocolate ice cream was the nicest, and didn't bother with the Swedish Glace neopolitan which I consider to be 'jack of all trades' ice cream!  We were the only vegans but everyone who was there seemed to really love the vegan ice cream; it was a lovely event and everyone enjoyed themselves so much that we're thinking of holding another one before Christmas.
  When we came back from the ice cream fest we'd had an order for some Dinochews children's vegan vitamins from our vegan shop and also a sweet message from a little girl who'd read my blog entry about the bee and has decided not to eat honey any more!!  
  We got some news of Chrissy's twin squabs today; she reports that the babies are looking much more grown up and are spending time sitting on the edge of their hanging basket nest! Chrissy did so brilliantly and it's lovely to hear that the twins are doing so well.
  If you'd like some vegan vitamins for your little dinosaurs, or would like to try some delicious vegan chocolate or sweets, please support the loveliest little vegan shop in the world and visit us at www.veganation.co.uk. x