Friday, November 21, 2014

Duyvis's vegan products (coated peanuts)

One day i found a Crac a Nut Barbecue (coated peanuts with barbeque taste coating) from Duyvis in the closet, and i wondered if it was vegan or not, so i emailed the producers and asked which of their products that are vegan. Here is the reply i got.
Sorry for the dutch btw. Those that are listed are vegan. Always check ingredients in case there are any changes in recipes or so.
Hieronder vindt u een lijstje met de Duyvis producten die geschikt zijn voor een veganistisch regime:
Oven Roasted Crac a Nut Szechuan Pepper, Sweet Paprika en Fine Herbs
Oven Roasted Peanuts
Peanuts Zout
Crac a Nuts BBQ, Paprika

Aangezien onze recepturen ten allen tijde aangepast kunnen worden, geeft dit lijstje alleen de huidige samenstelling van het product weer.

Ons advies luidt om steeds de ingrediëntenlijst op de achterkant van de verpakking goed te lezen om de correcte nutritionele informatie terug te vinden.

Which basicly means that most of their products are vegan, but not all.

I've found some pics from Colruyt and Delhaize their websites to show in pictures which are vegan. These products are sold in Belgium in Colruyt, Delhaize, and probably other shops too like Carrefour, but i'm not sure which shop has which products in stock.

 
http://shop.delhaize.be/Gezouten/Aperitief/Pindanootjes/Pindanootjes-7C-Zout-7C-Blik/p/S1971111700027200000
http://shop.delhaize.be/Gezouten/Aperitief/Pindanootjes/Pindanootjes-7C-Oven-roasted-7C-Blik/p/S1990051400027010000
http://shop.delhaize.be/Gezouten/Aperitief/Pindanootjes/Pindanootjes-7C-Oven-roasted-7C-Fine-herbs/p/S2012022900027100000
http://shop.delhaize.be/Gezouten/Aperitief/Pindanootjes/Pindanootjes-7C-Oven-Roasted-7C-Sweet-paprika/p/S2008092200027250000

I really enjoy eating coated peanuts. My favorite is the Rema 1000 chili nuts from Norway. Sadly they don't have that one here in Belgium, but luckily they have other coated peanuts here that also are yummy =D
Previously i have only tasted the paprika one, and now also the barbecue one, which both were yummy. Now after finding out more of them are vegan i guess i'll try out the rest too =D

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

In Belgium again

Trying my luck on the belgian work market again. Hopefully something will turn up, although everyone tells me when i told what my degree is that it will be hard or nearly impossible to find anything :x So if i'm so unlucky that i cant find any job i guess i'll have to take a more specialized and job oriented bachelor (seems i'll be forever student :x).

Since i'm a newcomer in Antwerpen it seems i can join an integration program where i can learn more about belgium and also learn more dutch, but first i need to get my official address in Antwerpen, which takes some more time than i hoped for. I asked for an appointment to fix it more than a week ago, and i didn't get any reply so far.

Also, the internet here is so slow that it's a nightmare doing anything that requires internet. I tried checking the speed with speedtest.net, but apperantly my internet was too slow to check it :x Normally it is faster, but atm we have a 100 GB download limit for the whole family, and after that is used up, the speed drops to nearly nothing. Luckily the limit resets soon, and we will soon get unlimited download limit so we have fast internet all the time and not just half a month =D

So with this slow internet and depressing job market i sometimes try to look for a job, but it seems i always need something i don't have, like dutch, french, experience, correct education, or driving licence. I applied for a job where the language requirements were norwegian and english, cuz those i know. It's not really based on my education though, but something is better than nothing atleast =) Hope there's no other norwegians around here that steals it :x

I also checked out voluntair work, and there i felt more happy since i
reached requirements more often. So i might sign up for some voluntair work so i'm a bit useful atleast =p


Sunday, November 9, 2014

Halloween 2014

I love holidays, they give a good opportunity to celebrate =D

As always, halloween is a time for spookiness =D And gross (but still yummy) food =D

So for this years meny i chose to eat mummies, larvaes, blood, and gore ^.^


Followed by way too much candy (and also before and while making the dinner xD)


And some chips and popcorn too =p

I even made some green spooky muffins with some bugs, brains and other nasty stuff in it, but everyone was too full to eat, including me :x


I dressed up as a witch who had been in a witchfight xD


In the evening we watched a movie called the collector. This movie had too much torture and blood and stuff so i was watching computer screen instead luckily, else i would have nightmares still. My brother and sister weren't the biggest fan of it either, but they wanted to know how it ended so they kept watching. I read the summary on wikipedia instead, gave me enough info, without all the visual details :x

Was a nice halloween, looking forward to next years halloween already =D