Vegan Time’s naturally alkaline vegan burger patties are now available in the freezer section of Virginia’s Health Foods, in Mobile. The fully cooked handcrafted burgers are seasoned and ready to heat and eat.

Eddie Augusta opened Vegan Time, the first Black-owned, all vegan food truck in Mobile, last year, and serves flavorful, plant-based meals seven days a week. Parked at the Mobile Skate Park on Airport Boulevard, their menu includes entrees such as sandwiches, burgers, pizza and stir fries, plus immune boosting smoothies made with Honduran seamoss and elderberry. Offerings vary daily and popular items like fried oyster mushrooms and butternut squash fries sometimes sell out.

Augusta switched to a plant-based diet five years ago and says, “I wanted to fuel my body by eating plants. Making this lifestyle change, the weight came off. I began to research and educate myself over the years about what’s good for my body and what’s not. It didn’t happen overnight but you got to make the first step. If I can do it, I think anybody can.”

Virginia’s location: 3055A Dauphin St., Mobile. Vegan Time location: 2301 Airport Blvd., Mobile. For more information, call 251-422-4765 or find them on Facebook.