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Veganuary

The Veganuary campaign involves eating a vegan* diet for the month of January. At the University of Exeter we are encouraging people to try eating a vegan or vegetarian diet in January - did you know eating plant-based could add 10 years to your life, and produces 75% less greenhouse gas emissions?

Whether you plan to try vegan or veggie, sign up to Veganuary using this link and receive emails with free resources and support throughout January including*:

  • Exclusive recipes
  • tailored meal plans based on your goals
  • nutritional advice
  • a celebrity e-cookbook
  • exclusive special offers on vegan products
  • social media support

Sign-up with Exeter’s unique link

*Veganuary is a vegan based charity with a positive, inclusive ethos. If you are attempting a vegetarian diet please sign up as the resources should still be helpful.

Explore the delights that vegan food and drink has to offer with special menus and offers from Eat & Shop as we support Veganuary throughout January. Look out for competitions, offers, and tasty vegan dishes available in our catering outlets and shops as well as all our usual vegan options that are available all year round.

Forum Kitchen and the Airstream

Buy any 3 vegan meals at Forum Kitchen between 12th-30th January and get 1 vegan meal FREE from the Airstream!

Simply redeem your FREE meal voucher through your Eat & Shop Club App at the Airstream (Great Hall Piazza) on Friday 16th, 23rd and 30th January.

Terms & Conditions

  • Minimum spend £5.00 per vegan meal
  • Offer available to Eat & Shop Club App customers only
  • Free meal voucher must be redeemed on the dates listed
  • Not valid on meals purchased from external caterers

 

Cross Keys and La Touche

Vegan Hot Box (available until 23/01/26)

Beetroot falafels, apricot, chickpea tagine with zaatar seven spiced cous cous £6.90

 

Cross Keys, La Touche and Comida

Facon bap (VG) and filter coffee £2.50 (available all year round)

 

Market Place - The Forum

Look out for Tiffin’s ‘Your idea, our shelf’ competition to be in with a chance of winning a new iPhone Air. T&Cs apply.

 

St. David’s Shop

10% off Vegan Bake & Bite products throughout January

 

Barisca Drink of the Month

Enjoy this month’s Dirty Oat Chai with a plant-based milk to go vegan!

Find out more about plant-based diets

There is lots of research happening here at the University of Exeter. See the research talks below that took place at our recent event ‘Plant-based diets for lifelong health and sustainability’ as part of the ESRC festival of social science.

Research talks

  1. Why we need to eat less meat and more plants and how to do it. Natalia Lawrence (Assoc Prof., Psychology) - watch on YouTube
  2. How temporary abstinence campaigns (meat-free Mondays, Veganuary) can support healthier and more sustainable diets. Sophie Hearn (PhD student, Psychology) - watch on YouTube
  3. How children and adults differ in thinking about eating animals. Luke Mcguire (Lecturer, Psychology) - watch on YouTube
  4. School Food and the Landscape Plate. Fatma Sabet (Postdoctoral researcher, Business School) - watch on YouTube
  5. Why do we need plants to feed our gut microbiome? Luciana Torquati (Senior Lecturer in Nutrition, Sports and Health Sciences) - watch on YouTube
  6. Vegan protein can build muscle too! Ino Van Der Heijden (PhD student, Nutritional Physiology, Sports and Health Sciences) - watch on YouTube

Slides from talks are available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z65esQanv-muwthIyKVs0YkaDP6rI-uP/view?usp=sharing

Playlist of talks on YouTube available here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhRkU4YcJBcN1jFUfkaUQPDakjq9dtZM-&si=gLqDijGcp7AznHgl