Contact: Deb Kantor – owner
Info: Mister Nice Guy bakes organic, fair trade cupcakes every day. They offer a wide variety of flavours, with new varieties added monthly. Delivery within 5 kilometres of the Melbourne CBD is free. Mister Nice Guy also caters for events and will supply cupcakes to stores.
Phone: 0405 001 442 or 0424 930 284
Email: hello at misterniceguy.com.au
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Contact: Yoko Inoue – owner
Info: Using a macrobiotic approach, shokuiku offers cooking classes, catering, and a personal chef for hire. They also provide a bento box dinner service – complete meals in a box – and an ordering service for Japanese ingredients. Food covers both the savoury and sweet spectrums, and all desserts are made with wholesome, organic ingredients, free of refined sugar. Some example dishes are brown rice with sweet chestnuts, pumpkin soup with cashew cream, oven roasted cabbage with kuzu tamari sauce, tofu ‘cheesecake’ with apricot, and amazake tart with seasonal fruit jam. Details of cooking classes and workshops are given on their website.
Phone: 0403 569 019
Email: shokuiku.life@gmail.com
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Contact: Sheryl Adkins
Info: EnviroSmile provides environmentally conscious cleaning services to Ormond, Frankston and surrounding suburbs. They use plant based cleaners instead of harsh, chemically based ones. These include Natures Organics and Tri Nature as well as simpler ones like bicarb of soda and tea tree oil in water. Vacuuming is done with bagless cleaners and plastic cleaning bottles are reused or recycled.
Service Area: South East Melbourne
Phone: 0415 249 491
Email: Website contact form
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Contact: Nat Grant – owner
Info: Vegan Muff offers organic muffins, cupcakes, cakes and slices. Gluten free versions are available by request. You can buy them from:
Phone: 0408 519 859
Email: veganmuff@hotmail.com
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Contact: Mark Senn – chef
Info: Veginity provides online training in cooking (vegan). Veginity’s chef, Mark Senn, has cooked in vegetarian restaurants around the world as well as making cakes for the now defunct Vegetarian Orgasm in Melbourne. His website contains a number of free recipes and videos covering starters, main meals and sweets. People can also sign up to receive a free course and monthly videos on vegan cooking. These provide a sample of the paid monthly membership that gives access to more recipes and videos with regular updates.
Address: 22 Kearney Drive, Aspendale Gardens, Victoria 3195
Email: mark@veginity.com
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Info: Soulveg prepare a diverse array of food with no artificial colouring, flavouring or preservatives. They cater for cosy dinners to events with hundreds of people and offer taste themes such as African, Soul Food and even Aussie BBQ! Individual items go from burritos, muffins and wraps to meetballs and their famous range of over 20 types of cheezcake. You can find their cheezcakes in a select range of Melbourne outlets or buy their food direct from them – both wholesale and retail.
Address: 99 Patterson Street, Ringwood East 3135
Landline: (03) 8802 0679 | Mobile: 413 679 594
Email: Website contact form
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Contact: Michael and Lia – owners
Info: A Melbourne vegan institution, the Las Vegan Bakery doubles as a cafe serving dishes from soup to sweets. As far as possible, they use organic ingredients to create food like fishless fingers, calzones, hand cut potato chips, cakes, and muffins in flavours such as cherry almond, pear pecan and lemon ginger. The bakery also caters and their muffins are available in some other Melbourne stores. Cooks Lia Vandersant and Liam Davies have also released a book on soups published by Aduki Press, Soup For All Seasons.
Open: Tuesday and Wednesday: 11am-3:30pm, Thursday and Friday: 11am-9:30pm
Address: 22 Smith Street, Collingwood 3066
Phone: (03) 9415 9001
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Contact: Anikee Mallis – owner
Info: The Radical Grocery Store is Victoria’s first 100% vegan grocery store. It specializes in organic, fairtrade, recycled, reusable, natural and local products with many gluten free options. Products include the full Vegan Perfection range, a large selection of Fry’s frozen foods, Veganpet, savoury yeast flakes, red food dye, a growing range of raw foods, as well as CCF accredited health, beauty & cleaning products.
Address: 347 Sydney Road, Brunswick, Melbourne
Phone: (03) 9077 5512 | Email: info@radicalgrocery.com
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Info: Roma Food Products are the parent company of Orgran Natural Foods. Orgran produce a wide range of gluten, yeast and GMO free products from No Egg egg replacer to bread mixes, cookies and fruit bars.
NOTE: The Orgran website and Everyday Health Magazine produced by Orgran feature recipes using animal products.
Address: 47-53 Aster Avenue, Carrum Downs, Victoria 3201
Phone: (03) 9776 9044
Email: info@orgran.com
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Info: Aduki Independent Press is a small nonfiction publisher dealing in topics from cooking to politics. They print only on fully recycled paper using mimimum energy and materials. They also produce aduki online, the web incarnation of the popular aduki magazine, its printed forerunner.
Address: PO Box 119, Brunswick Victoria 3056
Phone: (03) 8300 0233
Email: info@aduki.net.au
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