kazaddress Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 healthfood stores stock soya substitues.. so you should be able to cook as normal.. just substitute egg pasta for rice pasta.. egg noodles instead of rice noodles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 Thanks Kaz. I use a lot of soya products (I'm a vegetarian usually) but I have discovered many more in the past week! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 Trish - I'm just popping in to say thanks for the yummy porridge which I enjoyed this morning. My newspaper tells me that porridge sales are up by 85% over the last 5 years! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cate in NZ Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 Ginette, well done sticking with the vegan diet. The flapjacks sound good- I must have a go at making some, haven't made flapjacks for ages. I hope you manage to crack the yoghurt making though. Imogen & I are still veggie, son never intended to try a veggie diet, so he's eating our wonderful veggie stews, quiches, omelettes etc with a rasher of bacon by the side. Yesterday I served him veggie sausages, beans and mash, and he was 3/4's of the way through the meal before he realised that there was no meat..... and the penny only dropped when he realised that Imy and I were eating the same as him It's been much easier than I thought, and Imy's already saying that she doesn't think that she ever wants to eat meat again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 Glad to hear you're enjoying the food Kate. Lots of about your son! My only gripe about being vegetarian is that you do have to spend longer preparing the meal. It's good that are delicious veggie sausages etc for those days when there just isn't time. Being vegan probably doesn't take any longer but I have had to explore the books more as well as the shops. So I am feeling that I am bearing the brunt of this vegan-for-Lent thing. Everyone else just rolls up and eats what I've prepared and then moans because someone offered them a biscuit while they were out! OH has discovered that Bourbon Creams appear to be vegan, much to his surprise. They have them at work. I grudgingly said I supposed they were all right if you don't mind eating all those chemicals! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel (& Paul) Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 I'm glad you are doing so well!! Shame the children cant take in peanut butter etc. Another "crazy" rule I guess in case some bully steals the sandwich takes a bite and goes into thingy-my watsit alaptic shock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 Ginette - I never managed to make yoghurt with any rice/oat/soya milk - only cow milk. I wouldn't have thought the Bourbon biscuits were Vegan - what are they using instead of butter or marge? When I decided to become Veggie in 1980 there were very few ready meals and what there were tasted like cardboard - even sausages had to be made from scratch I admire what you're doing - I haven't managed to give anything up for Lent, we're struggling with a monstrous paper mountain courtesy of the solicitor . Sounds like a very poor excuse doesn't it? - it isn't Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheilaz Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 Charlot has found some Bourbon biscuits too...they must use veg/soya fat. Lesley, I think we can let you off. You can always do a good deed each day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 Not at all Lesley. Now isn't the right time for you to be giving things up. You are spending Lent creating a new and better future! Equally valuable! It may feel a struggle right now (very appropriate for Lent) but it will all be worth it in the end. A bit like labour pains! Keep positive! I'll have to find OH's listing of the ingredients of Bourbons and post them when I do! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 Just searched through my inbox but I've deleted the email from OH detailing the ingredients of Bourbon biscuits. Sorry! We have enjoyed an unidentifiably vegan evening watching a film and munching on popcorn and Original Pringles (which are vegan!). We had chilli sine carne and rice for dinner. I think I'm getting the hang of it now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amythefoxslayer! Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 Good Luck! I'm sorry, I can't think of anything apart from baked potato and baked beans!!! Is it benefitial for your health to be a vegen, or are you doing it as a challenge or for moral reasons? Sorry, I'm just being nosey! I hope it goes well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 We're being vegan as a discipline for Lent. It is a tradition which hasn't really been followed for a very long time, but that is why we have pancake day. The monks needed to use up all the eggs before Lent started and so they made pancakes, presumably filling them with any other animal products they had around. If I also cut out the vegan butter, I expect it would have health benefits. We have settled down now and food is less of a challenge. I have lost the 3lbs I put on in the first week! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 Bourbon Cream Biscuits: The ingredients listed are wheat flour, sugar, palm oil, fat-reduced cocoa powder, wheat glucose syrup, wheat dextrose, wheat starch, raising agents ammonium carbonates, sodium bicarbonate, salt, flavouring. Clearly not good for you but apparently vegan! (I bought some specially so I could post this!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amythefoxslayer! Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 Ok, cool thanks! I tried giving up big chocolate cookies for lent, sadly without success Anyway its not my fault, teenagers dont have properly developed will power sections in there mind or sumthing! Perhaps I should start smoking and give up that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 Thanks for that Ginette - what a sacrifice you've made to list the ingredients for me! I'll get the blame now if the 3lbs go back on I should have guessed it would be palm oil - that would do wonders for my cholesterol level - I'd better give them a miss Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 Glad to say DD3 brought some friends back from swimming and they ate the Bourbons None left for us! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 Hi Ginette, I am vegetarien too, but sometimes do a detox and they tend to be vegan, so if you do get stuck detox books are good. I have Carol Vorderman's Detox for Life book which is fullof vegan recipes (got a used book on amazon - very cheap!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelfire Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 The last post was me, but I didnt forget to sign in, it signed me out!!!! And I have now lost all the red arrows of the posts I havent read now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 Thank you Angelfire! I hadn't thought of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Mel prompted me into an update! Just 3 days to go now. I still struggle with the lunch bit, though probably because I'm too lazy to do it properly. The meals are mostly all right, but our favourite is probably baked potatoes and beans! I love Alpro soya yoghurt and will probably stick with it. I will also stick with Pure spread as it doesn't have the hydrogenated fats or any of the other nasty things. I think we may stay more vegan than we were, but I'm not sure how long that'll last. I'm really looking forward to eating eggs again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Nurse Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Well done for sticking it out, Ginette! I used to live with a Vegan, and you're right about the preparation of meals being a real performance.... Mind you, it made me think very hard about what I was cooking - I don't eat meat anyway, but it was things like Worcestershire sauce that I found myself reaching for and having to rethink.....(although there is now a Vegan version apparently)..... Unlike you and the Alpro, I could never quite reconcile myself to the soya products.......soya milk makes tea awfully grey...... I hope you celebrate the end of Lent with an Omelette and some meringue!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Meringue - even with cream!!!!!. Wow that's a very attractive thought. Yum, yum, yum! I don't eat meat either but my family does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Nurse Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Do you cook meat for the rest? - I'm always slightly terrified by it.....I once offered to cook a friend whatever he wanted for his birthday, so it was Boeuf en Croute for 6 - I spent days eyeing this slab of fillet of beef in the fridge without the first clue what to do with it!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 I do cook it, but not very often. I'm trying to do it once a week. My problem is I don't know what to buy (what cuts to ask for etc.) so I am now ordering a box of meat once a month, so that i don't have that problem! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cate in NZ Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Thanks for the update Ginette, I'd been wondering how you'd got on with it as well, now that Lent is almost over. Well done with achieving it, and it sounds like you've picked up some healthy long term changes as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
