Monday, 30 October 2017

My journey to vegetarianism & beyond...

In Spring 2016, my husband was talking to his brother who was on a journey to veganism and he shared a documentary called Cowspiracy.

Here's the link to the short 15 minute version & also the full documentary:
Cowspiracy 15 minute version
Cowspiracy Full Documentary

It talks about the impact on the environment by eating meat and dairy, it really struck us that we needed to change our diets and our families diet to do something to help the impact on our planet. Since watching the documentary we have been trying to reduce our impact on the earth through our diet and also the way which we shop.

Eating

We are heading towards veganism - we started this journey by researching and then became completely vegetarian in summer 2016. We have noticed some wonderful health benefits to vegetarianism and actually surprisingly have not missed eating meat at all. Once, we were comfortable with vegetarianism we have started to try to reduce the amount of dairy products we consume, mainly cutting out one by one. We're not quite completely vegan yet, but we're making good headway to being completely dairy free in our house.

Shopping

We try to buy things locally, so we buy fruit and vegetables from a local farm shop who deliver a mixed fruit and vegetable box fortnightly directly to our door.
We buy as much as we can of our store cupboard shopping in bulk from a local ethical & co-operative wholesalers.
We do still buy some things from supermarkets but try not to shop at the big multinational companies ie Asda, Tesco, etc. Living in Bradford we get shopping from Morrisons as they're based in our city, so it promotes local jobs & employment, but the amount we spend in Morrisons has reduced significantly from a few years ago.

Sunday, 22 October 2017

SHOP NOW OPEN

Most of my products are online now on Facebook @essenciabyruth and I will be advertising a few on here in the next few weeks, so if you're on Facebook don't forget to look me up and like & share the page.

REMEMBER TO GET YOUR VEGAN ADVENT CALENDARS BEFORE STOCK RUNS OUT!!!


Wednesday, 18 October 2017

Welcome

Welcome to Essencia by Ruth thanks for popping along to see us...

...we are still in the process of setting things up, so please bare with us in the mean time.

** PLEASE NOTE THE SHOP IS NOT OPEN FOR ORDERS UNTIL NEXT WEEK**

But in the meantime remember you can still window shop & keep popping over to see as we add more products over the next few days.

To find out more about what Essencia is please read the About me page


Essencia's Luxury Vegan Orange Hot Chocolate Gift Set

To order & more information about ordering please read "How to order & pay"

Luxury Vegan Orange Hot Chocolate Gift Set

£19
P&P if required £4

Comes gift wrapped in biodegradable cellophane.

A beautiful, unique gift set for your hot chocolate loving friends especially those who are Vegan. With the addition of the Young Living orange+ essential oil, it will be a real treat to make yourself an orange hot chocolate on those cold winter nights.

Includes:

1x Christmas mug
1x 5ml Young Living Orange+ Essential Oil (worth £6.71)
1x 125g Green & Blacks Organic Cocoa Powder (Vegan, Organic & Fairtrade)
1x 75g Mini Freedom Confectionary Vegan Marshmallows
1x 100g Divine Dark Chocolate with Raspberries (Vegan & Fairtrade)
1x Mini Whisk
1x Felt Basket
1x Instructions for use

Product can also be used with dairy milk as well as any dairy-free milks too.

About Young Living: Young Living essential oils are totally chemical free and processed from pure plants, so there is nothing in them but the oil. There are over a million uses for essential oils from cleaning supplies, personal care products like toothpaste and deodorant, emotional and physical support, and nutritional supplements! Orange+ essential oil is delicious in cooking & baking, but is also great to support the immune system.

About Green & Blacks Cocoa: Made with ethically sourced Fairtrade fine flavoured cocoa beans, the same as those used to make our chocolate, our cocoa powder has a complex flavour & is alkalised or Dutched to emphasize the robust chocolately notes.

About Freedom Confectionery Marshmallows: Strawberry & Vanilla Marshmallows which are egg-free, dairy-free, gluten-free, gelatine-free, no artificial flavourings or colourings, soy-free, GMO-free, vegetarian & vegan, nut & tree-nut free.

About Divine Raspberry Chocolate: Vegan & Fairtrade. Rich 70% dark chocolate contrasted with the fruity tartness of real raspberries. Vegan. The largest share in the Divine company is owned by farmers, which means more benefits go to smallholder farming families and communities.

Vegan & Organic Advent Calendar




Plamil So Free Organic & Vegan Advent Calendar

£4.99
P&P if required £1.50

All the taste of dairy milk without dairy. A festive and fun presentation. This organic dairy free milk chocolate alternative advent calendar is made in our own factory which never uses dairy or gluten. No milk. Vegan. Fairtrade. Gluten free.

About Plamil:
SALSA, Fairtrade Foundation, Soil Association, UTZ and Kosher certified.
Started in the 1960s to promote alternatives to dairy milk with plant based milks.
They aim to treat their suppliers "as they would want to be treated"