Vegsoc Approved Awards 2010

Now in its 10th year, these awards are an annual event to celebrate the achievements and high standards attained by manufacturers and caterers of vegetarian cuisine, and they highlight those companies and services that make life easier for vegetarians in the UK. This year there are 10 categories and the winners will be announced at the awards ceremony at the London Canal Museum on October 28. Eight of the categories are exclusively for Vegsoc approved products or catering. Two categories are aimed at those not currently approved by the Vegetarian Society, namely Best Eating Out/Best of the Rest category and the Best Allcomer. Vanessa Brown, head of corporate relations at the Vegetarian Society, said: "A big thank you to members of the charity and the general public for the thousands of votes we received. This is an indication of the passion you feel for your favourite vegetarian products and services. After carefully counting the votes, and this did take quite a while, we can announce our short list of nominations." The nominations for food and drink products and eating out venues are: Best Convenience Food Fry's vegetarian range Goodlife fruity falafel burgers Holland's cheese and onion pies Macsween's vegetarian haggis Quorn mince Redwood's ready to eat Lincs style sausages Best Store Cupboard Ingredient Doves Farm baking ingredients Hendersons relish Marmite MH Foods Parmazano Plamil egg free mayonnaise Best Sweet Treat Byron Bay cookies Dotty Deans of Huntly traditional shortbread Goody Good stuff sweets Millions Sweets Swedish Glace dairy free dessert Styles slim ewe iced dessert Best Beer Batemans XXXB Cairngorm Brewery Black Gold Cobra premium beer Grolsch Highgate Davenport old ale Marble Brewery Manchester bitter Best Breakfast Product Dorset Cereals chocolate granola Kara dairy fr e coconut milk Linda McCartney sausages Rude Health muesli range V Pud vegetarian black pudding Best Vegsoc Approved Eating Out Ginger Vegetarian Café, Halifax Iydea, Brighton Jaspers Corporate Catering L'Artichaut, Edinburgh Rainbow Café, Cambridge The Green House, Tring The Riverside Vegetaria, Kingston upon Thames Best Eating Out/Best of the Rest Aloka, Brighton Blue Moon Café, Sheffield Infinity Café, Brighton Pizza Express, nationwide Tampopo, nationwide Tree Top Café, Looe Best Allcomer Alpro yogurt range Ben & Jerry's chocolate and macadamia ice cream Feel Good Drinks Hotel Chocolat serious dark fix Müller Vitality yogurt range Urban Decay vegan cosmetic range • For further information, visit www.vegsoc.org