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"The biggest problems we have about vegetarians..." :-0 "problem"? and who is "we"?

do you KNOW how many meat eaters continually ask "yes but what do you EAT?" as though vegetarians are from some strange planet or chant the mantra of "Get it ( meat) down you it will do you good/build you up "blah blah ad infinitum for decade after decade.

Eat what you want Bob, if you don't like quorn don't eat it, simple as that... I happen not to like coconut but if you do why would I question it? We all have different tastes we like or don't like...

Is it usual to comment upon what people eat?

Sharron ..........

some people seem to think that it is fine to question what others eat, and to correct them

I admit, I am a meat eater, I love my meat especially lamb and pork.

I have cooked dinners where there was at least 1 vegetarian present ......... as I said that Shepherdess Pie was a god-send, and everyone likes it!


I eat what I like ................. and let everyone else eat what they like!

When cooking on any scale for groups including vegetarians I have often done two curries - same spices and sauces but one with plenty of beans in - and learned to make plenty as the meat eaters often wanted to try the veggie one and came back for more. The add-ons and rice can mostly be very acceptable all round.

I didn't mean to stir up a hornet's nest!

I do cook vegetarian meals as there are plenty of tasty recipes around that we enjoy and if we have veggie visitors then we eat the same as them, but I've never used Quorn before. I thought if I could cook it with the same added flavourings as I'm putting with the meat mince, it would be easy for me and we would all look as though we were eating the same.

I'm going to try it out tomorrow so I will let you know how I get on with it.

Don't forget the squirt of tomato ketchup.

It really does make a difference.

Good luck SuffolkSylvia Hope it goes well for you. :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

Gp

GP

who the heck are you talking to?

GP seems to have edited his Good Luck post. It was intended for SuffolkVera.
We all drop the ball on occasions. ;-)

It's probably because I eat too much meat and not enough veg.

GP

iv used quorn in cooking, and dont find its to my taste, but i do love veggie fingers lol

Taste probably isn't the word. It doesn't have any but I know exactly what you mean.

I suppose it wasn't to your texture.

Much depends upon what you are making and how you make it.

Although I have not eaten meat for such a long time I do remember what it tastes like (and still miss liver) and I don't like the steak type products that Quorn make. They are too authentic and really feel like eating meat which I now find a bit nauseating.

The turkey style steaks that I bought had to be chopped up and made into a meat-loaf.

I sometimes use Quorn mince for things like bolognese and moussaka, mostly to save some calories. It's fine in those sort of dishes, as they are well flavoured and seasoned anyway. It still lacks a little something, but we find it perfectly acceptable :-D

The tomato ketchup trick might well provide the little something.

Amazing how one's life can be defined by what they eat. There's a problem with vegetarians? Are 'we' non vegetarians because I certainly don't have a problem with vegetarians.

It seems to be restaurants that have the problem. We go out sometimes with a vegetarian cousin and I've lost count of the times he has been offered fish as the veggie option :-0. Or they proudly tell him they can "do him an omelette".

We did find a pub not too far away that had 2 or 3 really imaginative veggie options. OH and I often chose them because they were so good. What happened? Pub changed hands and they went back to offering a vegetable lasagna as the only vegetarian choice :-P

Even that is a improvement on the cheese salad that was the usual choice when I first stopped eating meat.

If there is one thing you really want to eat in the evening it is cheese!

Mostly I cook things that are pretty indistinguishable from meat dishes because I was cooking for Fred and OH is not vegetarian.

If it was within my capability I would make toads with vegetarian sausages but, if we have one, OH must make it. Shepherd's pie, stew, hot pot,pasties, pies, they all are pretty much the same as similar meat concoctions.This is where Quorn is particularly handy.

I have to say that, yesterday, when we went to Festival Park in Ebbw Vale, I had a cheese and onion pasty in the cafe and it was one of the best pasties I have ever eaten. It was absolutely delicious and seasoned to perfection with just enough peppe that you could taste it but not be overpowered.

Just that pasty will have me going back again.

I'm lactose-intolerant, and have lost track of the number of times that a server when asked if a dish has dairy in it, has replied

"No. It does have egg in it though. Can you eat eggs?"

I've also been served a cheese salad and a cheese sandwich on planes when a no lactose meal was ordered.

In the case of the cheese sandwich, one of the cabin crew checked the record and discovered that No Lactose had been crossed out and replaced with Vegetarian :-S



so it isn't only vegetarians who have problems :-D

That is probably why you are asked about eggs. They assume you are eschewing dairy for ethical reasons.

I would also like people to know that, as a vegetarian, there is nothing I cannot eat but there are many things I choose not to eat.

That is probably why you are asked about eggs. They assume you are eschewing dairy for ethical reasons.

I would also like people to know that, as a vegetarian, there is nothing I cannot eat but there are many things I choose not to eat.