Austin Vegan Trick-or-Treat Guide

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Austin Vegan Trick-or-Treat Guide

Halloween is just around the corner, and vegan youngsters have nothing to fear. Austin residences and businesses have some delicious vegan treats on hand for wee trick-or-treaters!

For those looking to head out on the town with the young ones in costume, we’ve created a handy printable trick-or-treating guide with three vegan residences, and seven vegan businesses, including Sweet Ritual, Wheatsville Coop, Capital City Bakery, Vegan Yacht, Sugar Circus, Counter Culture and Mister FruitCup. (Thanks to amazing vegan baker Meghan at Sugar Circus for the idea to create a flier!)

For those of you still looking to purchase candy for any little witches or monsters that may show up at your door, pick up some Sjaaks organic peanut butter (not on the recall list) or orange individually wrapped chocolates from Rabbit Food Grocery at their pop up shop at Counter Culture today. Or head on over to Wheatsville Coop and pick up bags of Endangered Species Brand Dark Chocolate squares, Yummy Earth Lollipops, or small boxes of raisins. Wheastville Coop also carries Go Max Go bars, vegan versions of mainstream favorites, which are perfect for adults looking to get their candy fix.

Vegan Candy

You can also check out VegNews Guide to Vegan Candy for a large list of accidentally vegan candy that can be found around town like Airheads Taffy, Jolly Ranchers hard candy, Mamba Sour Fruit Chews, Skittles, Sour Patch Kids and Swedish Fish!

Offering vegan candy to trick-or-treaters, but you’re not featured on our list? Please add your address in the comments below, and mention what you will be offering. Let’s make this year’s Halloween one to remember!

3 comments

  1. Mark

    The vegnews list is just candy full of red 40. I wish some brands would find another red. Seems like being the one affordable vegan brand would make you a lot of money.

    • Daniel

      Hi Mark,

      We’ve heard through the vegan rumor mill that Red 40 is not vegan, but that’s actually a misconception. In the snopes article about cochineal/carmine, they confirm that some red food colorings are derived from bugs, but call out Red 40 explicitly as a non-buggy source of red:

      Another red dye used in foods, FD&C Red Dye #40 (alternatively known as Red #40), is often mistakenly assumed to be a euphemism for cochineal or carmine. It’s not — it’s bug-free and is actually derived from coal.

      Here are a couple of other resources that also state that Red 40 comes from coal or petroleum:

      http://www.vrg.org/nutshell/faqingredients.htm#red
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allura_Red_AC

      Enjoy the cheap vegan candy – no bugs were harmed in the making of this red!

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