To persuade us that vegan recipes needn't be dull, various fancy plant-based dishes are displayed, and these do indeed look good.

If you are a vegan, it's extremely likely that you will share vegan recipes with other vegans on social media.

Both last week's recipe features were extracts from cookery books of vegetarian and vegan recipes, one of which gave calorie counts calculated by a nutritionist, which we did pass on.

There are vegetarian and vegan recipes but also a fair amount of pasta, bread, rice and meat - even a fried egg sarnie.

This effect can be achieved in vegan recipes with ground flax seeds; replace each egg in a recipe with one tablespoon of flaxseed meal mixed with three tablespoons of water.