[Food] I've gone a bit vegan

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Hellmans Vegan Mayonnaise
Ta

First Veganaise is a quality product so could be an upgrade from Hellmans.

Some of my quick staples are:

One pot pasta using Sainsbury's chorizo Shroomdogs https://www.thevegspace.co.uk/recipe-veggie-sausage-sun-dried-tomato-one-pot-pasta/

Crunchy Tacos - refried beans, guacamole, and waitrose smoked vegan cheese, salad, salsa https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/sheese-vegan-smoked-german-style/875223-688836-688837

Red Thai curry with tofu and cashews https://www.rabbitandwolves.com/vegan-red-curry-cashew-stir-fry/

Stirfrys with marinated tofu (lots of recipes for this and the last one) https://www.cauldronfoods.co.uk/recipes/vegan-satay-tofu-stir-fry

Roast dinners (even original Bisto is vegan) make my own nut roast or you can buy them frozen

Loads of recipes out there for vegan sausage cassoulet, I like mine with Puy lentils https://lindamccartneyfoods.co.uk/our-kitchen/vegetarian-sausage-cassoulet/

Pasta salads, falafal and pitta with humous, fry ups and vegan pancakes are really easy with fruit and maple syrup.

I am an overweight middle aged man, as I still eat too many vegan cakes, ice creams, crisps, chips, working away does not help as I do not have access to a kitchen to cook.

I highly recommend this cake recipe very easy and looks good https://www.waitrose.com/content/waitrose/en/home/recipes/recipe_directory/f/frosted-lemon-cake.html I add an icing sugar frosting on top as well with extra lemon.

Good luck with it, you will find a lot of veggie stuff is vegan now. Waitrose reported a massive rise in vegan food sales, and Greggs is going to make a vegan version of all its foods soon. http://waitrose.pressarea.com/pressrelease/details/78/PRODUCT%20NEWS_12/10203

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

So, my brother went vegan a few months ago, and lost about 2 stone in a flash. I thought, maybe i could return to that lifestyle too, after being it for a while in my teens. The problem i am having, though, is that i am perhaps going about it in a different/wrong way. Having a Vegan Magnum constantly near me, and then in me, isn't enabling me to mirror his results. So a crisps, Hellmans Vegan Mayonnaise and dairy free chocolate ice cream on a stick diet can't be classed as a great achievement.
I think i need to get on with making some nice meals again, but within 25 minutes and easy to form, after making the little one his dindins as soon as i am in from work.
Any suggestions?

Ta

Oh and this is an easy one especially if you use a frozen vegan mince instead of lentils. https://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/vegan-spaghetti-bolognese.html

 

[Napper]

Grand scheme of things isnt going to make a lot of difference.

Will it save you a few months life - possible but unlikely
Will it stop you ageing - no
Can you still get cancers and other diseases being Vegan - yes
Do you look a nob being a vegan - most defiently

Not worth it.

By all means be healthy but its a level too far.

 

[Meade's Ball]

My suggestion would be don't go totally vegan. Too much too quickly. Reduce your meat content, and ease back on dairy but don't go all in. That's what I have done.

I guess it also depends why you are doing it? Is it for your health? The environment? Animal Cruelty?

I'd say I am edging towards it, but would find it difficult to go all in. To be a vegetarian is probably achievable for me, but I am not there yet.

I've been veggie for years, and allergic to milk, and i don't think it felt so big a leap until i started. It is though. Or the effort needed to be put in feels considerable. In order to do it right, and not just dump vegan cheese on top of all dishes or fry a pair of Greggs vegan sausage rolls, i think i best look into mapping out my stomach's week, with added flavours and nutritional substances, and stick to it.
I'm expecting my missus' mother to deliver a big Spanish oh for f*ck's sake when she finds out and has to plan my christmas visit meals.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Also their are loads of vegan meal planners out there if its weight you want to lose as well. As a man in my 50's I find the waitrose one very good, but PETAs is very good as well.

https://www.waitrose.com/home/inspi...ightloss/meal-plans/vegetarian-meal-plan.html

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Helps it I post the right one, has about a months worth of reicpes.

https://www.waitrose.com/home/inspi...andweightloss/meal-plans/vegan-meal-plan.html

 

[Meade's Ball]

First Veganaise is a quality product so could be an upgrade from Hellmans.

Some of my quick staples are:

One pot pasta using Sainsbury's chorizo Shroomdogs https://www.thevegspace.co.uk/recipe-veggie-sausage-sun-dried-tomato-one-pot-pasta/

Crunchy Tacos - refried beans, guacamole, and waitrose smoked vegan cheese, salad, salsa https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/sheese-vegan-smoked-german-style/875223-688836-688837

Red Thai curry with tofu and cashews https://www.rabbitandwolves.com/vegan-red-curry-cashew-stir-fry/

Stirfrys with marinated tofu (lots of recipes for this and the last one) https://www.cauldronfoods.co.uk/recipes/vegan-satay-tofu-stir-fry

Roast dinners (even original Bisto is vegan) make my own nut roast or you can buy them frozen

Loads of recipes out there for vegan sausage cassoulet, I like mine with Puy lentils https://lindamccartneyfoods.co.uk/our-kitchen/vegetarian-sausage-cassoulet/

Pasta salads, falafal and pitta with humous, fry ups and vegan pancakes are really easy with fruit and maple syrup.

I am an overweight middle aged man, as I still eat too many vegan cakes, ice creams, crisps, chips, working away does not help as I do not have access to a kitchen to cook.

I highly recommend this cake recipe very easy and looks good https://www.waitrose.com/content/waitrose/en/home/recipes/recipe_directory/f/frosted-lemon-cake.html I add an icing sugar frosting on top as well with extra lemon.

Good luck with it, you will find a lot of veggie stuff is vegan now. Waitrose reported a massive rise in vegan food sales, and Greggs is going to make a vegan version of all its foods soon. http://waitrose.pressarea.com/pressrelease/details/78/PRODUCT%20NEWS_12/10203

Thanks for those.
Although i am hoping my chunkiness recedes itself a little. I feel the heft when playing football of a Monday night, and i notice the strain on my bike tyres of a morning and evening, knowing that 6 crumpets disappeared into me the night before after dinner.
Lentils sound a good idea and i can share those with the nipper.

 

[dazzer6666]

Thanks for those.
Although i am hoping my chunkiness recedes itself a little. I feel the heft when playing football of a Monday night, and i notice the strain on my bike tyres of a morning and evening, knowing that 6 crumpets disappeared into me the night before after dinner.
Lentils sound a good idea and i can share those with the nipper.

6 crumpets after dinner ?! I don’t think a bit of meat is the problem [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23] (I’ve been up to 18 stone in the past so I’ve done similar......)

 

[Meade's Ball]

Veganism ****s me right off, and I say that as vegetarian of over 25 years.

Because of the environmental awareness about meat consumption now, many places are now offering a lot more "plant-based" options, which is good. My problem comes in that this often means there are no vegetarian offerings, presumably due to the assumption that veggies will be happy with vegan stuff. Whilst I broadly am, if I have, say, a burger, I want proper cheese on it not weirdo vegan non-cheese.*

Frankly with seemingly everyone going veggie or vegan now, I may revert to eating meat just to be different to everyone else.

( * - maybe vegan cheese is passable now, but it certainly wasn't when I last tried it a few years back)

I've been on the Violife slices, and they are 844 times better than the scheese i ate, shipped over from Switzerland, in the late 80s. It's place is on top of a burger in a bun really, but doesn't do bad at it. I had a vegan Papa John's t'other day, and that was pretty sh*t. All the more so for it being 17 notes.

I 100% support your love of cheese and it being supplied as an option for almost all meals. Laziness is the vegetarian's enemy, and it usually inhabits a number of establishments meaning the vegetarian option is risotto, which i grew to loathe out of the obvious ease they feel in making it.

 

[Meade's Ball]

6 crumpets after dinner ?! I don’t think a bit of meat is the problem [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23] (I’ve been up to 18 stone in the past so I’ve done similar......)

I am a crumpetaholic. Ok i'd played football for an hour inbetween dinner and crumpet time, but i couldn't believe i didn't eat the 7th and 8th Marmite-clad beauty.

 

[Machiavelli]

Veganism ****s me right off, and I say that as vegetarian of over 25 years.

Because of the environmental awareness about meat consumption now, many places are now offering a lot more "plant-based" options, which is good. My problem comes in that this often means there are no vegetarian offerings, presumably due to the assumption that veggies will be happy with vegan stuff. Whilst I broadly am, if I have, say, a burger, I want proper cheese on it not weirdo vegan non-cheese.*

Frankly with seemingly everyone going veggie or vegan now, I may revert to eating meat just to be different to everyone else.

( * - maybe vegan cheese is passable now, but it certainly wasn't when I last tried it a few years back)

Try the vegan burger at Bison. Not sure if it contains vegan cheese or not, but it’s nearly as good as the real deal offered by Burger Brothers up the road.
I’d imagine that vegan cheeses have improved enormously of late, but I enjoy Tunworth and Colton Basset too much to try vegan variants too regularly

 

[Triggaaar]

I know it is very popular to be a vegan for health reasons, and I have to admit that the people I know who are vegans look very good on it. The bit I don't get is giving up eating fish. I was always told that fish was very healthy. I totally understand not eating fish if you are against eating animals, just not for health reasons.

Being vegan is to stop killing animals, it's not for health. Eating meat and other animal products is healthy (as with other things, in moderation).

Can anyone tell me why?

Meat is murder.

 

[Triggaaar]

Veganism ****s me right off, and I say that as vegetarian of over 25 years.

Why did you become vegetarian?

 

[Triggaaar]

I tried to argue that for the environment I could completely get on board with not eating red meat, but what was the issue with milk/dairy if the cows are looked after.

If you have milk, then you need a lot of cows to provide it. What do you think happens to all the bulls? If you have eggs in food, then there are lots of battery chickens to provide them (nice). What do you think happens to the male chickens? Being vegan means not killing animals. Being vegetarian doesn't.

But fundamentally I like cheese. I like a glass of milk, and I see no reason why we can't still have those and have happy cows.

See above.

 

[dazzer6666]

I am a crumpetaholic. Ok i'd played football for an hour inbetween dinner and crumpet time, but i couldn't believe i didn't eat the 7th and 8th Marmite-clad beauty.

Ah you did well. I wouldn't have left 2 in the packet, that's barely enough for a snack anyway.

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[midnight_rendezvous]

I see no reason why we can't still have those and have happy cows.

You’ve said that you’ve been told how calves are forcibly ripped away from their mothers and yet you seem confused as to why we can’t have happy cows Did your friend also tell you about the constant artificial insemination to ensure cows constantly produce milk? Or how male calves are slaughtered within days of being born? What part of this process gives you the impression that cows could be ‘happy’?

 

[CheeseRolls]

Turned 31 last Saturday, seeing how long I can go without eating meat

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Me too and I am getting closer and closer to my record for holding my breath.

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[soistes]

Veganism ****s me right off, and I say that as vegetarian of over 25 years.

Because of the environmental awareness about meat consumption now, many places are now offering a lot more "plant-based" options, which is good. My problem comes in that this often means there are no vegetarian offerings, presumably due to the assumption that veggies will be happy with vegan stuff. Whilst I broadly am, if I have, say, a burger, I want proper cheese on it not weirdo vegan non-cheese.*

Frankly with seemingly everyone going veggie or vegan now, I may revert to eating meat just to be different to everyone else.

( * - maybe vegan cheese is passable now, but it certainly wasn't when I last tried it a few years back)

Totally agree with this, as a vegetarian of over 40 years standing. Our local Pizza place has no "vegetarian" pizzas, apart from a boring margarita option, but has recently introduced a really nice looking range of vegan pizzas (with some interesting combinations of topping), but I've had to ask them to do mine with proper cheese. Seems that things are moving towards a binary - carnivore or vegan - model, leaving us poor veggies out in the cold.

 

[Triggaaar]

Totally agree with this, as a vegetarian of over 40 years standing. Our local Pizza place has no "vegetarian" pizzas, apart from a boring margarita option, but has recently introduced a really nice looking range of vegan pizzas (with some interesting combinations of topping), but I've had to ask them to do mine with proper cheese. Seems that things are moving towards a binary - carnivore or vegan - model, leaving us poor veggies out in the cold.

But what's the point in being vegetarian?

 

[Biscuit Barrel]

Being vegan is to stop killing animals, it's not for health. Eating meat and other animal products is healthy (as with other things, in moderation).

But the question I was trying to asking is why do some people become Vegan purely for health reasons ?

Some sports people have adopted the vegan diet purely to boost performance levels. But surely some mackerel or salmon wouldn't also be beneficial?