Review, Greggs vegan sausage roll.

Ahh the famous Greggs vegan sausage roll, much rumoured and anticipated, much discussed on social media, but what's it like?

The pastry is really light and flaky, the sausage inside is a good, moist texture and is made of Quorn.  It tastes, well, sausage roll-like.  It's nice.  I've eaten more than one since they launched last week. My mum says they're too salty, my colleague says they're a bit greasy, my meat-eating husband says they taste pretty much like the original Greggs sausage roll.  

My most favourite vegan sausage roll are the Linda McCartney ones.  Comparing the two, the Greggs vegan sausage roll has lighter, crispier pastry, the Linda has thicker pastry, the Greggs has a more succulent filling and it's more salty and umami, the Linda vegan sausage roll is more herby and a bit more stodgy.   

When I went to buy mine the store had sold out, but if you ask the staff they'll pop some more in the oven for you and they'll be ready in about 10 minutes.  

Have you tried one yet?

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Charity shopping.

I haven't been blogging for a while, but I have been charity shopping! 

This little plastic woven basket had to come home with me.  It needs a good clean, but I think the best charity shop finds always need a good clean!

Retro woven basket, £2.49, local Age UK charity shop.

If you look carefully at this little pottery brooch you can see that there's little faces in it.

Handmade looking pottery brooch, £1, local hospice charity shop.

An obligatory 'you've found my marbles!' type joke was made by the shop assistant when I bought these and I managed to be polite and not groan.  I always buy marbles when I see them cheap in charity shops because I like to put them in the tops of my pot plants (inside and outside plants) as decorative mulch. 

1.2kg jar of marbles, £1.25, local hospice charity shop.

Finally, I bought a selection of ornaments in the run up to Christmas.  I spotted the little wooden carousel in the shop window and had to run in on my lunch half-hour to buy it, all the others came in a £1 bag of decorations, mixed in with some modern stuff I gave straight back to the charity shop.

Carousel decoration, £1, local hospice charity shop.  Bag of decorations, cost £1 but kindly bought for me by my mum, local PDSA charity shop.

Have you bought anything fantabulous from the charity shops lately?

PS. Check out my other charity shopping posts for more like this! 

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