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I thought it would be a good idea to make a sticky thread with a list of vegan friendly products available in NZ, and where to get them/approx cost. Would you guys be keen? It could just be a simple list that gets updated whenever someone posts a new item (and adjusted if anyone thinks something isn't vegan, without it turning into a bitch session). (I can just manually add stuff into this post so it's at the top and easy to read).

This of course wouldn't include raw foods such as veges/fruit, more for processed/prepackaged items, whether it be spaghetti or potato chips or soy sausages or whatever. Cleaning/healthcare products would be sweet too. Just figured it would be good for new vegans and for others to broaden the options on their shopping lists, and to clarify what is/isn't vegan. Feel free to start posting your fav foods!

*EDIT*

Ok so here starteth the list. I'm gonna steal the crocs format for now and add to it (thanks!). I've also got a bunch of stuff to add later on.


Bread
Freya's Wholegrain, Classic seed
Molenberg Swiss Bake Original (May contain milk traces)
Molenberg Swiss Bake Energy Plus (May contain milk traces)
Signature Range Lifestyle Plus Multigrain
Tip Top Goodness 9 Grain
Tip Top Goodness Original Swiss
Giannis Pita Bread
Molenberg Grains Plus

Cereals
Sanitarium Wheat-bix } Contains sugar which is possibly not vegan
Sanitarium Skippy Cornflakes } Contains sugar which is possibly not vegan
Cocopops rocks
Kellogs Nutri-grain (sugar)
Sanitarium bran flakes
Ricies

Spreads
Sanitarium Marmite
Kraft Vegemite
ETA Crunchy Peanut Butter
Craig's Blackcurrant Jam } Contains sugar which is possibly not vegan
Craig's Boysenberry Jam} Contains sugar which is possibly not vegan
Craig's Strawberry Jam} Contains sugar which is possibly not vegan

Canned Foods
Oak Baked Beans
Solos Choice - Coconut cream
Trident Baked Beans
Trident Spaghetti
Watties Baked Beans
Watties condensed pumpkin or cream of pumpkin soup
Oak Creamed Corn
Palm Island Coconut Cream

Soy milk
Soyfresh Natural Soy Milk

Pasta
Diamond Lasagne Sheets (May contain traces of milk and egg)
Mi Goreng noodles (satay and original) (apparently have non-vegan additives)
Chicken and corn noodles

Tofu
Bean Supreme Firm Style and Organic Tofu
Soyworks Organic Tofu

Mock Meats
Fry's range (snitchzel, mince)
Veat
Sanitarium Nutolene

Desserts
Sanitarium So Good Bliss Ice cream Range
Light berry and apple pie
Lite Licks ice cream
PPopsicle slushys
Fruju tropical snow ice block

Snacks
Mister Potato Crisps
Potato stacks
Oreos
Pringles (smokey bacon, tangy bbq, original) (company may have bad ethics)
'Farmbake' cookies (Apricot and chocolate flavour)
Health Plus vinegarette
Uppercuts Balsamic and caramelised onion
Uppercuts sea salt and herb
Uppercuts tangy tomato and salsa corn
Most ready salted chips
RJ's orange choc liquorice is vegan
RJ's liquorice
Peanut chews (original, not milk choc)
kettle style microwave popcorn
Butter Lovers microwave popcorn
Crazy face biscuts
Skittles
Jelly tots
Gourmet jelly beans
Animal biscuits
Home brand honey bears (may contain honey, which may or may not be vegan)

Dressings
ETA Lite and Free Salad Dressing (not the Mayonnaise)
ETA Lite and Free Italian

Cleaners
ECO Store Plant Based Dishwashing Liquid
BEE range

Personal Health/Cosmetics
Innoxa
Joico hair products
Organics shampoo/conditioner (farmers) (chamomile + lemon verbena)

Other
Nesquik (banana)
New Way flakey pastry
Cadbury drinking chocolate
Lisas sundried tomato hummus
Most Bagels
So good bliss soymilk range - choc, strawberry
Vtasoy ricemilk
Pam's hummus
Dolmio pasta sauce: onion and basil
Pm's raw sugar
Pm's rolled oats
Wattie's tomato sauce plain

Mister Potato Crisps

Pringles, without the animal testing.

Sounds like a sweet idea. Do we need to mention production line residue for hard outs? Just had a quick look in the pantry, but the cupboards are pretty bare. Not 100% sure on some of these but I guess others can let us know:


Bread
Molenberg Swiss Bake Original (May contain milk traces)
Molenberg Swiss Bake Energy Plus (May contain milk traces)
Signature Range Lifestyle Plus Multigrain

Cereals
Sanitarium Wheat-bix } Contains sugar which is possibly not vegan
Sanitarium Skippy Cornflakes } Contains sugar which is possibly not vegan

Spreads
Sanitarium Marmite
Kraft Vegemite
ETA Crunchy Peanut Butter
Craig's Blackcurrant Jam } Contains sugar which is possibly not vegan
Craig's Boysenberry Jam} Contains sugar which is possibly not vegan
Craig's Strawberry Jam} Contains sugar which is possibly not vegan

Canned Foods
Oak Baked Beans
Solos Choice - Coconut cream

Pasta
Diamond Lasagne Sheets (May contain traces of milk and egg)

Tofu
Bean Supreme Firm Style and Organic Tofu

Desserts
Sanitarium So Good Bliss Ice cream Range

Cleaners
ECO Store Plant Based Dishwashing Liquid

Trident baked beans and spaghetti don't have any cheese in them, most generic brands don't.

Andrew_TA wrote:Trident baked beans and spaghetti don't have any cheese in them, most generic brands don't.

Oak and basics spaghetti have got cheese

Innoxa is really good for skin care and cosmetics. Free of animal-derived ingredients and not tested on animals. Joico hair products are really good and vegan, too.

the croc wrote:

Andrew_TA wrote:Trident baked beans and spaghetti don't have any cheese in them, most generic brands don't.

Oak and basics spaghetti have got cheese

I meant budget, and um, some more...

Oreos
Fry's range of 'meat' products, hardish to find.
Veat (vegetable meat, usually found in asian supermarkets)
Cocopops rocks (or something like that)
Mi Goreng brand noodles, quite sure most if not all are vegan

I'll add some more later.

It's cool how pringles have a tick that say if they're veg(etari)an or not, too bad they're made by an arsehole company...so I'm told.

but so are oreos I think...


does anyone know any good chocolate milk brands, I discovered milo has milk powder in it. lame.

PertHJ wrote:but so are oreos I think...


does anyone know any good chocolate milk brands, I discovered milo has milk powder in it. lame.

Nesquik. The banana one is at least - but check the others.

rad! might get me some of that

not that I care *so* much, but what about non GE brands?

denimglen wrote:Oreos

It's cool how pringles have a tick that say if they're veg(etari)an or not, too bad they're made by an arsehole company...so I'm told.

Oreos are made by an animal testing company too

Watties condensed pumpkin or cream of pumpkin soup,
chicken and corn noodles
theres a brand of the 'farmbake' cookies that come in a paper bag that are vegan - apricot and chocolate flavour
all the biscuits are worth lookin through, not just oreos, a whooole heap of the shrewsberry type biscuits of the alternative brands are vegan!
Chips: health plus vinaigrette, and uppercuts balsamic and caramilsied onion are as vinegarey as vegan chips get
Frozen desserts: theres a brand of frozen pie dessert (I can't remember the name but youll be able to find it, as theres not really that many different ones) the desserts called 'Light' berry and apple (or berry and something) pie. Theyre one big one or four little ones in each packet covered in criss crossed pastry. yum!!
Frozen broad beans: AWESOME. cook em and when theyre tender drizzle extravirgin olive or walnut etc oil over them with fresh cracked pepper and salt.
Popsicle slushys YUM

cleaning products - theres dishwash and washing machine liquid by BEE
[those ones that say - Don't Worry I'll Be gentle]

and theres awesome shampoo+conditioner at farmers just called Organics i think. chamomile + lemon verbena mmmm

Andrew_TA wrote:

denimglen wrote:Oreos

It's cool how pringles have a tick that say if they're veg(etari)an or not, too bad they're made by an arsehole company...so I'm told.

Oreos are made by an animal testing company too

Yeah I know.

But fuck they're addictive.

There's a company that makes fake oreos, taste pretty good and I'm pretty sure they're vegan as well. Same deal with fake pringles.

RJ's orange choc liquorice is vegan. And their plain liquorice is as well.
There's a brand on the market called "peanut chews" in some dairies, which are in a red packet and they are vegan. They taste kind of like snickers bars.
"Lite licks" soy ice cream is vegan...

PertHJ wrote:but so are oreos I think...


does anyone know any good chocolate milk brands, I discovered milo has milk powder in it. lame.

Cadbury's chocolate powder. Better double check, but when I was working at the cafe I checked it and it had no milk (or soy) in it.

New Way flakey pastry. Vegetarian society approved, but looks vegan to me. Mmmm homemade vegan pies...

I think thats what I bought the other day..it was flakey and had the vege tick at least...and yup it was vegan....and yup it was MEAN as.


kettle style microwave popcorn.

crazy face biscuts
skittles
jelly tots
gourmet jelly beans


iv got a book full of different things il post a list soon

ginasaur wrote:RJ's orange choc liquorice is vegan. And their plain liquorice is as well.
There's a brand on the market called "peanut chews" in some dairies, which are in a red packet and they are vegan. They taste kind of like snickers bars.
"Lite licks" soy ice cream is vegan...

Peanut chews are the fucking shit. A few supermarkets have small ones (cadbury favourites size) ones in the bulk bins. Mean shit.

Although they do have glycerin in them which can someimes be from animal sources.

denimglen wrote:There's a company that makes fake oreos, taste pretty good and I'm pretty sure they're vegan as well. Same deal with fake pringles.

from the warehouse?

Umm possibly, haven't had them for ages, could just be from the supermarket or an Asian supermarket.

The Pringles you can get at pak n save.

sweet thread, just what I needed.

Went for a shop today and had this stuff on the receipt:

Dressings

ETA Lite and Free Salad Dressing (not the Mayonnaise)
ETA Lite and Free Italian

Cereal
Kellogs Nutri-grain (sugar)

Canned Goods
Oak Creamed Corn
Palm Island Coconut Cream

Soy milk
Soyfresh Natural Soy Milk

Bread
Tip Top Goodness 9 Grain
Tip Top Goodness Original Swiss
Giannis Pita Bread
Molenberg Grains Plus

Tofu
Soyworks Organic Tofu

remember, you can only consume as such if you are a 'consumer' in the first place.

what in the fuck are you talking about?

Future Shock wrote:remember, you can only consume as such if you are a 'consumer' in the first place.

It's pretty hard to stay alive without buying stuff

Cooking your own meals is really important, and there are quite a few threads on here discussing rad recipes etc.

This thread to me kind of lets people know of products which are on the market that we can buy if we are feeling lazy or want a treat etc. Or that we can recommend to people getting into vegan lifestyle that may feel pretty daunted by the whole thing.

Alot of people don't have time to cook or just can't be fucked. For me it's a bit of both.

I cook my dinner most nights, but i don't very often cook breakfast, lunch or snacks/baked goods.

But hasn't this thread covered products which can be used for cooking anyway?

phaedrus wrote:yeah, but there is still a lot of focusing on 'products' as opposed to food

This of course wouldn't include raw foods such as veges/fruit, more for processed/prepackaged items, whether it be spaghetti or potato chips or soy sausages or whatever.

good for new vegans and for others to broaden the options on their shopping lists

Umm kind of the point of this thread is products.

But I do agree about staying away from processed stuff as much as possible.