If you start feeling p-p-peckish, p-p-pick up… not a chocolate bar but a piece of fruit! Whether dried, in a tin or fresh, they’re full of nutrients and make the perfect nibble. Most cakes, biscuits and chocolate are veggie but read the label for hidden nasties such as animal fat and gelatine - obtained by boiling animals hooves, bones and ligaments.

If you’re gluten or milk intolerant or want to be vegan, check out your supermarket’s free-from range, where you’ll find suitable lip-smacking versions of your favourite cakes, pastries and ice creams and other products, too. And don’t forget Viva!’s great range of vegan chocs, fudge and sweeties - see page 24!

If you’re not a chocoholic (lucky you!), there are cereal bars, packets of seeds, mixed fruit and nuts, good ol’ peanuts and more upmarket varieties such as pecans, brazils, macadamia and hazelnuts. Walnuts and almonds, pumpkin and sunflower seeds - toasted or fresh - are crammed with goodness, including elusive omega-3 essential oils. They are all some of the best sources of nutrition you’ll ever find.

For those sweet enough already, there are lots of savoury choices - vegetable samosas, onion bhajis or vegetable spring rolls. Also, try crackers smothered in vegan cream cheese with grapes, olive spread, gherkins, pesto, tinned asparagus or sundried tomatoes. Use your imagination. Or plunge your favourite crisps (caution - not all are veggie) into dips such as tomato salsa, hummus or tzaziki (vegan yoghurt and garlic).

We can’t hold your hand around the supermarket but we can point you in the right direction. For more information, get the L Plate Vegetarian - a 36 page guide for learner veggies. Also available is the L Plate Vegan. Read them free online at www.viva.org.uk, or in hard-copy for £1 (plus 50p p&p) each.