The Meat Free Monday Cookbook is a beautiful collection of recipes designed to inspire you to make your meals each Monday meat-free.

There are 312 recipes in total, including contributions from top celebrities and chefs such as Kevin Spacey, José Pizarro, Tom Aikens, Twiggy, Giorgio Locatelli, Bryn Williams, Yotam Ottolenghi – not forgetting the McCartneys, themselves passionately vegetarian.

Meat Free Monday’s message is ‘One Day a Week Can Make a World of Difference’. The campaign demonstrates how giving up meat for one day each week can help us reduce our environmental impact and live a healthier life.

The Meat Free Monday Cookbook is published by Kyle Books, priced £19.99. Visit the Meat Free Monday website to find out how supporters can buy the book at the special offer of £17.99 inc free p&p (UK mainland only).

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Vegetarian Living voted our new Mushroom and Ale Pie as one of the three best veggie pies in their New Shoots column. Their taste testers found our pie very hearty and loved our pastry. A few would like more of our gravy, we don’t blame them it’s rather moreish!

> Read the New Shoots column
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We’re delighted to announce that Kate Ford’s winning Mushroom and Ale Pie has launched exclusively, for one month in Sainsbury’s.

Sainsbury’s superstore in London Colney, Hertfordshire hosted the launch where Kate unveiled her winning pie to the public. Fans and food enthusiasts alike queued to get a slice of the delicious dish.

Kate said “This competition has been a fantastic journey and I have enjoyed following the development of my recipe, from creating the dish to following its progress into stores across the country. I hope the Mushroom & Ale Pie will serve as another delicious meat-free alternative and I can’t wait to see it hit shelves!”

The pie goes on sale this week at the special introductory price of £1.49 (usually £1.99) until the 6th September.

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It was a very proud moment for Kate Ford and our team here at Linda McCartney Foods as the first of the competition winning mushroom and ale pies came off our production line last week.

We were delighted that Kate was able to meet our production team and take a tour of our meat free site and of course taste her delicious pie. Our Development Chef Richard said “Kate’s pie stood out from the first tasting and the whole team loved the recipe. It was also Paul’s favourite and this was reflected when the public voted for Kate’s recipe”.

Kate said “It’s been a fantastic experience to come here and the pie has come out as I hoped it would. I’ve been a vegetarian since I was eight and wanted to create something a bit different that would appeal to both vegetarians and people who eat meat. The ale is something you wouldn’t usually get in a vegetarian dish”.

Sir Paul McCartney has said how much he’s looking forward to trying the pie “I am thrilled to support this great competition which has continued Linda’s passion to create delicious home cooked and meat free food. Kate’s ‘Mushroom & Ale Pie’ is a worthy winner and includes all the values Linda cherished – I can’t wait to try it myself.”

The pies will be on sale in Sainsbury’s from 8th of August.

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On July 6th 2011, the leading lights of the food industry gathered in London for Compassion’s prestigious Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards, hosted by TV Chef Paul Merrett. The awards celebrate and reward major food companies for committing to higher welfare policies.

We’re delighted to announce that Linda McCartney Foods were among those who received a Good Egg Award – other award winners included the happy egg co, Mr Kipling and Ocado.

Since 2007, the Good Egg Awards have celebrated companies who are using only cage-free eggs or egg products.

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Cook Vegetarian magazine have named our Peri Peri burger as their latest squeeze in their Easy BBQ feature. They said it’s moreish, spicy, unusual and succulent and that’s it everything they want from a burger right now.

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> See our Peri Peri burger
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Hain Celestial UK, our parent company, has been ranked 20th in The Sunday Times Best Green Companies list. We were positioned even higher in the sector rank at number 9 showing we have a “healthy appetite for improving the environment”.

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Our new, limited edition Italian sausages are a hit with BBC Good Food. The magazine said they were ‘something a little different’ and ‘perfect on the BBQ, browning evenly without drying out’.

> Read BBC Good Food’s What’s New column
>Take a look at our Italian Sausages here
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Vegetarian Living have announced Kate Ford as the winner in our search for the UK’s tastiest meat-free dish, calling her a ‘pie achiever’ – we couldn’t agree more!

Kate gave the magazine an exclusive recipe for her puttanesca burger, filled with black olives, capers, chilli and borlotti beans which sounds delicious.

> See Kate’s recipe in Vegetarian Living
> No time to make your own? Try our new Peri-Peri burgers

Help us celebrate National Vegetarian Week with a tempting selection of tasty meat-free dishes.

We’ve come up with seven meals for seven days across the week – a mixture of comfort-food favourites and new ideas to give you a choice of dinners that are really delicious.

> Take a look at our mouth-watering, meat-free menu
> Support National Vegetarian Week
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