A healthy alternative to salty ready made tortilla chips and a great way to use up spare slices of bread. These toast triangles can be served with any dips to make the perfect cosy evening snack.

Simply toast our bread, cut into triangles and you have the perfect scooping tool. Partner with our delicious guacamole recipe and you have the ideal healthy but fun movie night treat for the whole family.

Guacamole

Ingredients

2 tablespoons natural yoghurt 

2 avocados

Juice of ½ lime

Vogel’s bread

Method

1. Add natural yoghurt, both avocados cut into cubes and juice of 1/2 lime into a blender.
2. Mix all ingredients together until smooth paste is created.
3. Toast Vogel’s bread loaf and cut into triangles to create that perfect tortilla look.

A delicious breakfast or brunch treat all the family can enjoy. Easy to make and fun to eat, this simple French toast recipe is served in fingers for easy dipping and scooping. Topped with creamy mascarpone and a quick blueberry sauce – it’s fun and deliciously perfect way to start your day.

Serves 2 adults and 2 children

Ingredients

4 slices Vogel’s bread, crusts removed and sliced into soldiers  

2 eggs 

2 tablespoons milk 

Butter, for frying 

Mascarpone, to serve 

For the blueberry sauce 

150g blueberries 

1 tablespoon caster sugar 

Method

1. Make the blueberry sauce by combining the blueberries, sugar and 1 tablespoon water in a small saucepan. Allow to bubble over low heat for 5 minutes, or until there’s plenty of syrupy juice and the blueberries have softened a little. Set aside. 
2. In a shallow bowl, beat together the eggs and milk using a fork. Dip the soldiers into the egg mixture, making sure they are well coated. 
3. Melt a generous knob of butter in a frying pan. Fry the soldiers until lightly golden on both sides. Remove and drain on kitchen paper. 
4. Serve whilst still warm topped with mascarpone and blueberry sauce.  

‘Putting bread on the table’ has quite literally become much more of a priority in households around the globe over the last few months. With shopping restrictions in place, getting hold of essentials for the family has been a challenge. Coupled with a greater awareness of health and nutrition to keep our loved ones healthy, and larger amounts of family members at home, we saw our seeded breads fly off the shelves!

Keeping families fed became number 1 priority at Vogel’s and we quickly jumped to action to ensure we could continue to supply this important cupboard staple for everyone. Like many of us we had to adapt and make changes to ensure we kept our working family safe at the same time.

Bakers to the rescue!

Our bakers  are our backbone. These experts and craftsmen are essential to keep Britain fed, ensuring production continues to meet demand. Their vital skills and experience has ensured the same flavour and nutrients our bread is known for reaches your table with each loaf. To keep our very own superheroes safe and healthy we implemented a few changes.

In order to adhere to social distancing we implemented staggered shift patterns, limiting the number of staff who are in the building at the same time to a minimum. 

Rest breaks are essential to maintain good well-being for our staff. However, sharing a communal space with multiple people during this time was not a safe option. Therefore, we constructed a new canteen/breakout area with additional space that enabled safe distancing. This also applied to new changing facilities within the bakery, providing more safe space for our essential workers. And finally to be extra careful throughout the bakery we’ve laid distancing tape to ensure a 2 meter distance is maintained at all times.

We’ve all seen tremendous acts of community during this time with the regular #ClapforCareers, neighbours shopping for each other, people reaching out to loved ones they may have lost touch with. The #AloneTogether movement is heartwarming to witness, and has reminded us of one of our key principles – that our family and community is everything. So we’re still here, still working hard to support  you to feed your family with nutritious food.

From our family to yours, stay safe, stay healthy, stay positive.

Looking to mix things up in the kitchen? This delicious Shakshuka recipe uses cupboard staples, is loaded with veggies and super quick and easy. Perfect for dunking your favourite Vogel’s bread.

Serves 2 adults and 2 children

Ingredients

3 tbsp olive oil

1 large onion, finely chopped

1 red pepper, quartered and sliced

1 yellow pepper, quartered and sliced

3 garlic cloves, crushed

1 tsp smoked paprika

½ tsp ground cumin

½ tsp ground coriander

2 x 400 g tinned tomatoes, chopped

6 large eggs

1 loaf Vogel’s Soya & Linseed

butter for spreading

2 tbsp flat leaf parsley, chopped

Method

1. Heat the olive oil in a large lidded cast iron frying pan. Fry the onion and peppers over a medium heat for 15 minutes or until soft and sweet.
2. Add the garlic and spices and stir over a low heat for 2 minutes.
3. Add the chopped tomatoes and simmer for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. Season to taste.
4. Make six hollows in the sauce and break an egg into each one. Cover the pan and cook over a very low heat for 10 minutes or until the whites have set, but the yolks are still runny.
5. While the eggs are cooking, toast the bread to your liking and butter generously.
6. Sprinkle the shakshuka with parsley and serve immediately with plenty of toast on the side for dipping and scooping.

We understand life is busy, sometimes it’s hard to find the time to make yourself something truly scrumptious and nutritious – especially if you’re juggling childcare too. We wanted to share this delicious recipe for all the busy parents out there, it’s quick, easy, tasty and healthy. So get stuck in!

Serves 1 (no sharing here, this is for YOU)

Ingredients 

2 slices Vogel’s original mixed grain

2 tbsp cream cheese

2 slices smoked salmon

¼ red onion, thinly sliced

2 tbsp sandwich cress

Dill pickles, to serve

Method

1. Spread the bread generously with cream cheese.
2. Arrange the smoked salmon on top and garnish with onion and cress.
3. Enjoy with crunchy dill pickles on the side – heaven!

Family and health, what gets us going at Vogel’s HQ. We understand the constant battle of trying to create healthy meal options for the kids whilst at the same time attempting to make things easier for yourself . That’s why we’ve created this super quick, delicious, nutritious and simple Pizza Toast recipe all the family can enjoy.

Serves 2 adults and 2 children

Ingredients 

6 slices Vogel’s Soya & Linseed

3 tbsp sun-dried tomato paste

1 mozzarella ball, torn into small pieces

toppings of your choice – we used chorizo, roasted peppers, olives and cherry tomatoes

torn basil leaves, to serve

Method

1. Grill the bread on one side until golden brown, then leave to cool.
2. Turn the bread over and spread the untoasted side with sun-dried tomato paste. Sprinkle with mozzarella.
3. Ask everyone to top their slices with their favourite combination of toppings.
4. Grill until the cheese melts and turns golden brown in places.
5. Garnish with torn basil leaves and serve immediately.

Simple as that. Enjoy!

At Vogel’s we aim to make looking after your family easy with nutritious bread that supports your family’s health as well as providing delicious treats for you. Looking after your family is a sentiment that now seems even more pertinent than ever.

With the current COVID-19 pandemic there’s a sudden change in our day to day life. We know what it’s like, juggling working from home, video calls and childcare. With social distancing restrictions in place it’s hard to know how to keep the little ones entertained and healthy at the same time. As ever, we’re here to support you! 

We wanted to provide something that is useful and can help our community (aside from our delicious bread 😉). Putting our heads together we’ve compiled a list of easy, free or low cost ideas of activities you can do with the kids to dose up on immune boosting vitamin D, get some fresh air and find moments of calm. Having tried and tested these ourselves we can safely say you’ll be sure to find one that will entertain even the smallest attention span (for 10 minutes at least). 

1.‘Bee’come 🐝 the next David Attenbourough 

With sunnier days ahead this is the perfect activity to get the kids outside, you don’t need a large garden or vast outdoor space, just access to a few plants. 

Bee’s are fascinating creatures and vital pollinators so don your best David Attenbourough impression and hold a family science survey. Blooms for Bees encourages people to help scientists learn more about bumblebees in the UK, their habits, the pollen they enjoy and their movements. All you need to do is download the app, choose a plant and observe for 5 minutes, photograph the bumblebees, identify the species on the app and submit the data.

2. Go on an adventure … at home 🏡

Super easy and sure to keep the kids entertained, a scavenger hunt of your home. Completely free, can be changed up everyday and you can select items that you know won’t be in the rooms you need some quiet time in. Here’s a perfect example of a simple version but you could scale it up or down as much as you like. How about adding clues, extending the hunt into the garden or adding ‘treasure’ at each discovery?

3. Make a time capsule

Not only is this a fun activity to keep the kids occupied, it’s also fun for all the family. The perfect opportunity to sit down together and focus on the present moment, something we all need a bit of right now to calm the uncertainties. Note your names, ages, favourite colour, favourite animal, favourite hobby, most listened to song right now, current favourite tv show, anything that tells your story. When you’re done you could bury the time capsule for someone in the future to discover or store it away in the house to look back over another time.

4. Plant Seeds

Simple, but is effective. With gardening centres closed it’s hard to get your hands on plants and tools. However, seeds are sold in most large supermarkets meaning they’re easy to get hold of when you are collecting your essential foods – no unnecessary trips out required. You don’t need fancy tools either, just your hands and soil if needed.

And it doesn’t stop with the planting, a gift that keeps giving – encourage the children to water the seeds daily, chart their growth and see how the plant developers. If patience is lacking some seeds grow at a tremendous rate. A seed we’re very keen on at Vogel’s HQ is the sunflower seed – packed with goodness, but also starts sprouting after just a few days! 

5. At home picnics

Last, but by no means least our favourite of them all involves food – naturally.

Thankfully spring is here, which provides the perfect opportunity for garden picnicking. The perfect escape from your desk and a chance to enjoy a treat of delicious sandwiches, fresh fruit and yummy snacks. If you don’t have a garden, create a ‘picnic den’ out of bed sheets, chairs and cushions. Enjoy this moment of calm to sit together, eat together and enjoy the company of loved ones, it’s what will get us all through this time together.

Stay safe, healthy and happy.

With Love,

Vogel’s Family

Happy National Nutrition and Hydration Week! Here at Vogel’s, we believe that, as with most things in life, keeping it simple is the key to happiness and health when it comes to your diet and lifestyle. It really doesn’t have to be that complicated; getting immersed in nature, being around loved ones and eating well all contribute to wellbeing, something our founder, nutritionist Dr. Alfred Vogel understood back in 1954.

Throughout his long and healthy life, Alfred Vogel never lost his appetite for all things natural, delicious and life-enhancing. Growing up in the mountains of Switzerland, he knew that health, taste and happiness were inextricably linked. He discovered new plants and ingredients (like echinacea, which the Sioux Native Americans introduced him to) and created recipes like our Glorious Original Mixed Grain loaf, in order to help others benefit from nature’s goodness.

A revolutionist and pioneer of his time, Dr. Vogel believed that in order to get the most out of life, we should seek nutrition from all areas of life, not just our food. And today we continue to be inspired by his holistic approach to living a wholesome life, as defined by his ‘Guiding Principles’:

1. Eat slowly and chew well
2. Food should be fresh and well prepared
3. Go for walks after meals to aid respiration and digestion
4. Eat in moderation
5. Live in harmony with nature
6. Be responsible for your own wellbeing. Find balance between tension and relaxation, activity and rest
7. In all your striving let love be your guide. It is the greatest power in the universe

Simple!

Taking inspiration from Alfred, our recipes have less flour but more seeds in every generous slice, resulting in a simple food jam packed with flavour and nutrients. But in addition to healthy eating, at Vogel’s HQ we champion taking responsibility for our own wellbeing.

Vogel’s makes it easy to provide nutrients for your family without sacrificing on taste and quality. You enjoy taste, safe in the knowledge that your family are eating healthy nutritious food, because small luxuries shouldn’t be sacrificed and neither should your wellbeing. Join the Vogel’s community on Facebook and Instagram for nutritional advice, family friendly recipes and above all else support, we’ve got your back!