Envious of your friends and their marshmallow-toasting sessions? Longing to sink your teeth into a gummy bear (even though you've got serious qualms about the biting the heads off thing!)? Suffering acute jelly bean pangs? Fear not - plenty of those little treats which you thought eschewing animal products had deprived you of forever are out there in veggie/vegan form.
For gelatine-free marshmallows, gelatine-free fruit jellies, and beeswax-free jelly beans, visit The Vegan Store. If fizzy cola bottles (yes, they even make these!) are more your thing, then visit Goodness Direct for the veggie/vegan version. Veggie/vegan gummy bears are available from Edward and Sons.
It's also worth checking out the kosher section of your local supermarket, as you can often find veggie/vegan sweets there. Remember too, that plenty of sweets which you can get from your local cornershop (and which you might assume, at first glance, contain gelatine) are also veggie/vegan - Swizzels Flying Saucers, Starburst, Rowntree's Jelly Tots and Rowntree's Tooty Frooties, to name but a few.
Last time I checked, at least in the US, Starburst contained gelatin.
David> The recipe for Starburst in the UK is vegetarian, and has been for some time, ever since the name was changed from 'Opal Fruits' which may have been a different sweet to the original Starburst. I found a list of ingredients here:
http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/food/starburst-fruit-chews/1039034/
"The version of Starburst fruit chews you can get in England is vegetarian where as the American version is not as the flavours unique to their packaging contain gelatine."