The Vegetarian Poll 2019

Beef, Prawns, Quorn or Sawdust?

  • Total voters
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Edward said:
If you're looking for inspiration, I wholeheartedly recommend Anna Jones' A Modern Way To Eat as the quintessential vegetarian cookbook.

Aside from Indian cooking (which is, let's face it, the world's foremost vegetarian cuisine) the breadth of recipes in that tome are stunning. Ottolenghi's Plenty is another fantastic book.
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I stan for Anna Jones. I love vegetarian food; as Eddie says, it's quite easy to eat veggie if you're South Asian. But I won't give up meat. I don't eat a huge amount of it in the first place.
 
So I used to be vegan (6 years) and vegetarian either side for 5 years. But I started eating meat again because I have been trying to put on weight and needed the protein.

I felt terribly guilty at the start but I now probably eat meat on averagr more than I don’t. Sorry world. :(
 
Also I felt I was being quite rubbish at being vegan. Eating Linda McCartney sausages for your tea every night didn’t quite feel in the spirit of things :D
 
i fucking hate seafood and fish so that was no worry to give up.

i do like the quorn fish fingers though.
 
Can quorn successfully recreate the texture of fish?
 
I've been pescetarian from birth never actually tried meat. Well, apart from accidentally eating a rogue piece of bacon that was in a jacket potato I ordered once at uni :D



 
Kate said:
I always wish there were more paneer options in Indian restaurants.
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You need to go to GOOD Indian restaurants. For one, paneer is not the be all and end all of vegetarian Indian food.

Most "curry houses" don't even do a decent dal and there are literally dozens of different ones to try.

Give me a good dal makhani over paneer saag any day (even though I love the latter).
 
I don't think I've ever been fed ham. But it does keep turning up unannounced whenever I buy a cheese sandwich in the Spanish language world. :(
 
I've been vegetarian for years. I do have my 'accidental vegan' days and not so accidental vegan days. I may go full on vegan at some point but I do need my dairy protein especially on the days I do weights. I do feel it. Running is fine on carbs but for weights you do need protein and I love eggs, (skimmed) milk and cheese (in moderation).

Ideally I'd be vegan though.
 
I dabble. Which sounds odd, but Mr Ag is very resistance. I try to not eat meat one day a week.

Do we really think this is the way things are going?
 
Edward said:
You need to go to GOOD Indian restaurants. For one, paneer is not the be all and end all of vegetarian Indian food.

Most "curry houses" don't even do a decent dal and there are literally dozens of different ones to try.

Give me a good dal makhani over paneer saag any day (even though I love the latter).
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I have been to many good ones and many bog standard ones!

I love a brinjal bhaji as well, but not found much else that works for ME as a veggie main. Saag UGH. (Mr Kate loves spinach but I don’t.) I just wish that all the standard curries came with a paneer option instead of always just “chicken or lamb”.

I have a smashing coconut dal recipe, in a Rick Stein book of all things :shy:, but I’ve never had a dal in a restaurant that I liked more than that.
 
I didn’t realise how hard it is to get vegan CAKE until I tried to find some for a friend recently. Christ. I went to a massive Tesco and it was rocky road or flapjack. That was LITERALLY IT. Of course there are fancy bakeries that do them but they cost fifty gazillion pounds.
 
There is a truth here - vegan is expensive. It looks as if you really have to cook, have time to cook and have a decent sized freezer to make a go of this unless you're rolling in it. Meal prep appears to be an essential.
 
Kate said:
I didn’t realise how hard it is to get vegan CAKE until I tried to find some for a friend recently. Christ. I went to a massive Tesco and it was rocky road or flapjack. That was LITERALLY IT. Of course there are fancy bakeries that do them but they cost fifty gazillion pounds.
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Ooh a friend did recently make a vegan lemon drizzle cake which was lovely (her husband is lactose intolerant, they're not actual vegans)
 
I'm never ever ever ever going vegan though. Aside from liking cheese and fish and milk and stuff - when Mrs. Indie tried a vegan week recently it was such a massive ballache. I do the weekly shop and I was staring at packets of dried pasta and jarred olives trying to figure out whether they're vegan or not. (hint: they're both not). I'd have to start asking pubs which of their beers are vegan (hint: not many)

Fuck that for a game of soldiers. om nom nom nom meat and meat derivatives.
 
Beer drinking is a toughie for vegans due to a fish byproduct, this is true.
 
can someone please change pescetarian to pescatarian in the poll? it's triggering me.
 
octophone said:
Beer drinking is a toughie for vegans due to a fish byproduct, this is true.
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It's not impossible, though. There are entire breweries that won't use isinglass but use other methods to provide beer clarity, but you really have to seek them out.
 
Indie said:
done (although on further research both spellings are acceptable)
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so it is. apologies, guess i've somehow never seen it the other way around.
you learn something new every day.
 
A lot of meats are quite easy to replace with properly tasty vegan alternatives now. They're usually quite cheap too. Most times when I do burgers at home it'll be something soy or plant based and you can barely tell the difference. The only meat I won't swap out is minced meat for bolognese etc cos I haven't found a convincing alternative yet, and sausages but I rarely eat them outside of barbecue season.

I'd say about 50-60% of my meat consumption is now veggie/vegan stuff but I'd still like to eat less. It's an ongoing process.

I have also cut out almost all dairy which I never thought I could, but the Alpro range is incredible and satisfies every need I have for cow juice :disco:
 
Indie said:
done (although on further research both spellings are acceptable)
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EXACTLY! How fucking DARE YOU! As IF of ALL people, I’d be fucking wrong- I’m the EMPRESS of ENGLISH!
 
I miss meat bolognaise, which may be another reason I fall off the wagon, but I do like a lentil ragu almost as much...
 
For the record, I much prefer the spelling 'bolognese'.
 
lolly said:
For the record, I much prefer the spelling 'bolognese'.
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I use the more English spelling (-aise) when talking in English but obviously “-ese” when in Rome...
 
Indie said:
I'm never ever ever ever going vegan though. Aside from liking cheese and fish and milk and stuff - when Mrs. Indie tried a vegan week recently it was such a massive ballache. I do the weekly shop and I was staring at packets of dried pasta and jarred olives trying to figure out whether they're vegan or not. (hint: they're both not). I'd have to start asking pubs which of their beers are vegan (hint: not many)

Fuck that for a game of soldiers. om nom nom nom meat and meat derivatives.
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Being vegan is much easier if you're not too hard on yourself. I've been half way through meals that are basically vegan before realising there is a sauce or something that probably isn't, but I don't dwell on it. I also don't do the booze thing and don't ask people to cook vegan for me when I go to their houses because it's too annoying.

That said, being vegan is also made a lot easier just by being in London where restaurants have broadly started to cater for it.

It depends on your reasons too. Kate is right that it's hard to get vegan cake, but that was kind of the point for me. I'm rubbish at telling myself I need to eat healthy, but being ostensibly vegan has cut out a lot of shit.
 
Glasgow is very easy to eat out as a vegan now - in fact, I almost always go to vegan places now but then, I eat out very rarely(!). But it's not a case of menu options but places with great all-vegan menus like The Glad Cafe, Mono, The 78 and so on.
 
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