Aldi UK Launches Biggest Ever Vegan Christmas Range, Including Footlong Pig in Blanket

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Aldi UK has unveiled its biggest ever vegan Christmas range, featuring a variety of new products alongside old favourites.

The range includes what is claimed to be a “supermarket first”, the Plant Menu Ultimate Footlong Vegan Pig in Blanket. The product is made with Aldi’s Ultimate No Pork Sausage and wrapped in smoky vegan bacon. The chain’s regular-sized Plant Menu Vegan Pigs in Blankets will also return this year.

As a starter, customers can opt for the Let’s Party Vegan Bites, featuring no duck spring rolls, cauliflower popcorn bites with buffalo dip, and sweet potato bites with katsu sauce.

Several new plant-based mains are also on offer:

• Specially Selected Nut Roast — A vegan melting centre roast with a cranberry sauce filling.
• Plant Menu Stuffed No Turkey Crown — A plant-based joint with a caramelised onion, sage, and herb stuffing, finished with umami basting stock melts.

  

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• Specially Selected No Beef Wellington — Features a plant-based beef centre topped with mushroom duxelles and hand-wrapped in vegan pastry.
• Specially Selected No Beef Fillet with a Peppercorn Crust — A fillet encrusted with coarsely ground peppercorns and finished with gravy.
• Specially Selected Rainbow Vegetable Parcel — Features layers of spinach and broccoli, roasted butternut squash, and braised red cabbage, with mushroom and cranberry duxelles. The parcels are hand-wrapped in puff pastry.
• Specially Selected Roasted Vegetable Snowflake — A gluten-free centrepiece containing butternut squash, chestnuts, cranberries, and pumpkin seeds, topped with a chestnut crumb and finished with a mulled festive drizzle.

The mains can be topped with Aldi’s Specially Selected Vegetable Gravy, seasoned with herbs and spices. There will also be a plant-based cheeseboard on offer, the Plant Menu Vegan Selection. Varieties will include mature style, mature style with black pepper, and fresh white style with cranberries or jalapeño and chilli.

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Expanded vegan range

Aldi UK previously launched its biggest ever vegan range for Veganuary 2024, featuring a selection of limited edition products including corn dogs, vegetable fritters, and breakfast pastries. The retailer said at the time that it was predicting a huge uptick in plant-based sales throughout the month.

Last year, Aldi announced it was working to offer over 1,000 products in its plant-based range by the end of 2024. The chain said the products would be spread across the year as part of its standard, seasonal, and promotional ranges.

“To achieve this goal, we are focusing not only on reducing the small quantities of animal-based ingredients in our products, but also on consistently expanding our vegan range,” Aldi said in 2023.

The retailer’s vegan Christmas range will roll out throughout October, November, and December.