Ep 21: Vegan Chocolate with Coco Caravan feat. Elliot Knight
The ChickPeeps Vegan Podcast
Evanna Lynch
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2018
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
This one's for the vegan chocolate lovers out there! This week Evy, and guest co-host, Elliot Knight, expound on their deep love for all things smothered in thick layers of delicious chocolate, and the importance of indulgence on a vegan diet. We talk about the struggle of being vegan when treats and desserts are not prioritised, and are seen as too obscure to make by non-vegans. Later on we interview the fantastic Jacques Cop, founder and head chocolatier of vegan chocolate house, Coco Caravan, to learn about the process of making vegan chocolate and how raw chocolate is actually a healthy food. Also on this episode...
- Meet this week's guest host, actor and fellow vegan, Elliot Knight
- Elliot shares his joyful outlook on embracing the sweeter things of vegan life - ‘Life is a dessert - get a spoon and get on in!’
- Jacques tells of a chocolate vision that came to him and changed his life!
- Jacques explains why you CAN 3-4 chocolate bars a day and feel good about it!
- Why vegan chocolate is better than ordinary dairy milk chocolate.
- The benefits of eating raw chocolate.
- What is coconut palm sugar?
- We discuss vegan businesses taking over the world vs keeping business local and family-run.
- Elliot reaches chocolate-nirvana mid podcast.
- Jacques shares his abundant mindset as a vegan: ‘With going vegan you don’t really have to miss out on anything.’
- Listener question: What do you do when you’re required to eat animal products for an audition? Elliot and Evy weigh in on how they would handle the situation.
- How NOT to fall off the wagon when non vegan chocolate is the only thing in sight.
Links:
Follow CocoCaravan on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
Follow Elliot Knight on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
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Robbie Jarvis: @robbjarvis
Tylor Starr: @tylorstarr
Evanna Lynch: @msevylynch
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Do, do, do do do do do do do do. |
| 0:09.8 | Eat your veggies, not your friends. |
| 0:12.5 | It's not hard to be vegan. |
| 0:15.8 | The chick peeps. |
| 0:17.7 | Welcome to episode 21. |
| 0:19.6 | This is probably going to be my favorite episode because this is the episode on chocolate and I'm the biggest chugaholic. I believe chocolate is so important for your happiness. It's one of the sweeter things in life. And I find it really upsetting when people overlook desserts and sweetness and chocolate as a vegan. They think that we should just be eating salad and |
| 0:37.7 | hummus and desserts are for people who eat everything and I totally disagree with that. And |
| 0:43.8 | desserts were my downfall as a vegan early on. So today we're going to be talking about chocolate, |
| 0:48.8 | vegan chocolate specifically and we're going to be interviewing Cocoa Caravan, an amazing |
| 0:53.8 | vegan chocolate brand. We're going to be interviewing Coco Caravan, an amazing vegan chocolate brand. |
| 0:55.1 | We're going to be interviewing Jack, the founder and creator. |
| 0:58.0 | But for now, I have a very exciting guest here. |
| 1:01.7 | I've been trying to get this guest on the podcast for all the time you've had the podcast. |
| 1:06.0 | He's one of my best friends. |
| 1:07.1 | He's the most amazing, beautiful person. |
| 1:09.4 | Elliot Knight, welcome to the chickpeeps. |
| 1:10.9 | Oh, hello. That was such a nice introduction. No, seriously. You made me shy a little bit. |
| 1:17.0 | Not really. Don't be shy. No, no. Be loud and proud. I will. Hi, chickpeeps. Hey, everyone. |
| 1:22.5 | Oh, by the way, Ellie is also a fantastic actor. We met in 2012. We were doing a show called Simbad. He was playing the titular role. And since then, he's done so many wonderful things. He's currently on the show Life Sentence on the CW with Lucy Hale. We'll talk more about that later. But more importantly, he's just a beautiful, radiant light. And he's also a big chocolate fan oh so um and |
| 1:47.2 | what i love about you what i wanted to talk about in this episode is how you just make veganism |
| 1:52.6 | look easy like you've done it so effortlessly and you've never you never feel sad about it |
| 1:56.3 | because i sometimes think i meet a lot of vegans who like, they're angry that they're doing this and nobody |
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