Lviv Vegan Kitchen - Supporting Vegan Soldiers

Since March 2022, Lviv Vegan Kitchen provided free vegan meals to refugees and soldiers.
Now, we are dedicated solely to supporting vegan soldiers and we are excited for the upcoming launch of our new vegan products.

Vegan Soldier Ration

2000 UAH / 50 USD

20 rations a week

Family Ration for Civilians

700 UAH / 16 USD

40 rations a week

Gluten-Free 1 Person Ration

600 UAH

1-5 rations a week

ABOUT US

Hi! Marta and Oksana here. We are two vegan sisters from Western Ukraine who founded the Lviv Vegan Kitchen to feed war refugees in our country. Since the war began in February 2022, we have been serving an average of 100 to 150 free vegan meals a day in our non-commercial kitchen.

Our History

Lviv Vegan Kitchen is a volunteer initiative launched in first week of the russian aggression in Ukraine. We are a group of vegan activists with a long volunteer history. When the full-scale war started in February 2022, we decided to make our contribution by providing food relief for refugees.

There were thousands of refugees fleeing war and our city - Lviv - became a key point on their way further to Europe, and a lot of them settled in Lviv as well.

In April we registered as NGO.

Our History

Later we discovered that there are a lot of vegans in armed forces and there is lack of vegan rations for them - so we started to ship vegan parcels for them and to people who suffered from war all over Ukraine.

In summer 2022 petition for vegan rations in army launched by vegan soldier collected required 25,000 voices. Government started tests only in autumn, so vegans on a frontline still need our help.

Our History

First we hired a kitchen from our friend's restaurant Vega Room, he planned to shut his business down anyway. Then in May 2022 when more and more refugees were coming we hired a bigger place on Chornovola Ave, 63a.

We were operating there until June 2024, serving 200-250 meals every day and shipping from 50 to 150 parcels every month.

Also we hosted dozens of community events organised by vegan activists - both educational and entertaining.

Challenges

After October and November 2022 massive missile strikes we faced daily power outages. It was hard to manage even when they were scheduled, but we did, and we had no pauses in our work.

We used propane tank and power generator and a lot of small lamps and candles.

Working during power outages with propane

Own Recipies

We developed our own recipe of nutritious vegan protein bars from ingredients that are available and properly nutritious. Vegans on the frontline love them!

This and many other vegan recipes are available on our Patreon.

Operational changes (June 2024)

Due to lack of donations and other difficulties we have to terminate all processes related to refugees support. But there was always two branches of our work and second one is supporting vegan soldiers.

We are full of enthusiasm to continue this work and there are already ideas of new vegan products by LVK:) Thank you all for your support and stay tuned!