Vegan Food Launches for Veganuary 2025
We may have just stuffed ourselves full of delicious festive fare, but January remains an exciting time for vegan food as restaurants and cafés launch new offerings for Veganuary. Whether you’re starting your vegan journey in 2025 or looking to discover something new, here’s a delicious range of 2025 Veganuary meals to try.
Greggs
Greggs’ spicy vegetable curry bake is back. This winter-warmer pastry packed with rice and veg including chickpeas, onions, sweetcorn, peppers, and parsnip in a spicy curry sauce was first introduced in the brand’s 2023 festive range and is making a return nationwide for Veganuary.
GRUBBY
GRUBBY has launched new vegan dishes in collaboration with best-selling authors BOSH! Each box includes an easy-to-follow recipe card along with ingredients to prepare your selected meals fresh at home, including gochujang tofu mac ’n’ cheese, peanut butter and tenderstem udon soup, and zingy green enchiladas with avocado.
Las Iguanas
Latin American restaurant Las Iguanas has added the Garlicky Mushroom Taco to its vegan options for Veganuary. Punchy sautéed garlic mushrooms are tucked into two soft tortillas along with grated vegan cheese and spring and pink pickled onions.
Papa Johns
To encourage customers to try vegan this Veganuary, Papa Johns has introduced a new Hawaiian pizza featuring La Vie ham, juicy pineapple, and Sheese, which like its other options, is available with a vegan cheese stuffed crust. If pineapple on pizza isn’t your thing, there are lots of other vegan options on the menu, including new La Vie Vegan Ham & Sheese Sticks.
Tortilla
This Mexican restaurant has collaborated with Beyond Meat to offer vegan steak for Veganuary. The Beyond Steak Chimichurri Burrito, available until 6 February, wraps the plant-based steak in a warm flour tortilla, along with chimichurri mayo, Mexican rice, pinto beans, guacamole, sweetcorn salsa, pickled pink onions, jalapenos, and a sprinkle of crushed tortilla chips. Beyond Steak is also available to add to build-your-own orders.
wagamama
wagamama’s Veganuary offer includes the nationwide rollout of Firecracker Chick’n Ramen, a dish developed in partnership with vegan blogger Alfie Steiner, who is an ambassador of the brand’s loyalty scheme, Soul Club. It features crispy vegan chicken, smoky roasted aubergine, and rice noodles in a warming gochujang-spiced broth topped with sesame sprouting broccoli, crispy chilli oil, spring onion, pickled red chillies, coriander, and a squeeze of lime.
Wahaca
Wahaca has updated its vegan menu with new dishes for Veganuary, including beet tartare tostadas, made from Riverford Organic beetroot and served with salsa macha, fresh horseradish, and avocado cream. Try it on the Vegan Set Menu for two along with a selection of other favourites.
Wetherspoon
All Wetherspoon pubs will serve a ramen noodle bowl as part of a meal deal starting at £6.99 throughout January. The dish, featuring noodles, bean sprouts, shiitake mushroom, spring onion, carrot, pak choi, bamboo shoots, red onion, sliced chillies, and coriander in a light broth, joins the already impressive vegan options on ‘Spoons menus, including a full cooked breakfast, pizza, burgers, nuggets, curries, and desserts.
Zizzi
Zizzi’s Veganuary special, the Bold Bean Co Butter Bean Stufato, is designed with cold weather in mind. Smooth butter beans are served in a rich, smoky tomato sauce with harissa, sundried tomatoes, lentils, spinach, and courgette in an edible bowl(!) made of dough and topped with crispy kale. That’s comfort food – bowl and all.
Make the Compassionate Choice
Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice to spare animals suffering or to support their exploitation in the meat, egg, and dairy industries. Most animals raised for food are kept in dirty, crowded conditions where they’re deprived of sunlight and fresh air. Cows are forcibly impregnated then their babies are taken from them so their milk can be sold to humans. Pigs’ tails are cut off without pain relief, and chickens are forced to breathe in ammonia-filled air that hurts their lungs. None go to their death willingly.
Go Vegan for the Planet
Going vegan can play a huge part in reducing your impact on the environment. Switching to plants can reduce your carbon footprint from food by up to 73%! Animal agriculture causes almost a fifth of all human-induced greenhouse gas emissions and is a major driver of the climate catastrophe, deforestation, biodiversity loss, and pollution. Even if we stopped using fossil fuels immediately, without changing our diet, we’d still face irreversible climate heating.
Are you inspired to protect the planet and all its inhabitants? Take our vegan pledge and we’ll provide you with meal plans, recipes, and tips on eating balanced vegan meals, choosing vegan clothing and cruelty-free cosmetics, and showing compassion for animals in other aspects of your life.
