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[sadietoo]

Took DD to Guildford today on a pre-back to uni shopping trip,

 

We had lunch at Wagamamas, and can I just say how fantastic it was as two vegetarians to be offered no less than seven choices of main meals, (rare treat it took us some time to make up our minds..."I'm vegetarian I'll have the food please"), none of which contained Goats cheese...

 

for me the problem with goats' cheese is the aftertaste it leaves you with...exactly like a goat smells...but for some reason there is a myth that if you are vegetarian you love goats' cheese

 

Wrong. wrong. wrong. wrong. wrong......what we love is tasty food...like properly cooked Tofu or Seitan..and even falafel....NOT filo pastry please...(sorry for shouting)....

 

Just wondered..how many other veggies out there find their appetite deserting them when when presented with a menu.... and what's your best what's the worst choice you have had to make?

[Egluntyne]

Most hated choice - Mushroom rissotto. B-o-r-i-n-g, and usually very badly done.

[BeckyBoo]

I recently went vegan and have only tried to eat out once - ended up with salad because EVERYTHING else had cheese or dairy - that said, it was only once and it wasn't a particularly good restaurant. Will have a problem this weekend as it's my Dads birthday and he usually wants a take-away, chinese or indian, fine for a veggie not too sure about vegan!

 

BeckyBoo

[MedusA]

As a vegetarian, who can't tolerate garlic, I have a devil of a job to eat out. I once won a meal for two as a prize and ended up having a collection of side dishes as my main meal because the only 2 veggie options bot contained garlic!

 

Congrats on going vegan, BeckyBoo.

 

I wish I had the willpower, but don't think I could manage without milk or cheese.

[Cinnamon]

My youngest is veggie, & she totally loathes Goats Cheese & any sort of Squagh type vegetable.

There is often very little choice for her in restaurants, & she often has a Ploughmans,soup or just chips

[quickcluck]

Hmmmmmmmmm know the feeling, I've been veggie for 25yrs, and struggle with tomatoes and hot cheese!!!!

 

Just recently I think the all veggie options even in supermarkets has gone down dramatically... Unless they have a fat content off the scale then there's no choice at all!

[Valkyrie]

DD found that school meals offered the worst options - cheese, cheese or more cheese. Cheese pizza, cheese pastie or cheese and salad. The ladies complained at her when she asked for the salad without the cheese. She had packed lunches after that.

One of the restaurants near here offers (or used to- haven't been for a while) a vegetarian shepherd's pie - which she loves - it has lots of lentils rather than the usual soggy cauliflower, peas, sweetcorn slop which she has ended up with before in some places. Quite often I will also try the veggie options because I like to try something different and to see if it something I can do for meals at home - but they are sadly few and far between.

[Lesley]

Veggie since 1980 - but now eat meat we raise ourselves - I hate eating out!

 

Christmas menus are the worst!!, you end up paying the same as people who are eating turkey, beef or half a duck and end up with some tomato slop in a filo basket

 

I like goats cheese.... and mushroom risotto.....but don't want to eat pasta and tomato sauce and the ubiquitous raw peppers

[The Dogmother]

I used to struggle when I was veggie 20 years ago - not much choice at all.

 

Becky; Indian is great for vegan... all those pulses and lentils

[fluffyknickers]

K - have you been to the yummy vegetarian restaurant in Leigh on sea - you could go next week. x

[Guest]

I'm a veggie and I LOVE goats cheese but its NEVER on the menu!!

 

You can keep your tofu and meat substitute stuff.

 

I HATE veggie lasagna though and I generally just phone the resturant in advance whenver a meal out is booked and order a cheese salad.

[Jools]

I love goats cheese, well all cheese really, veggie only of course. Eating out is a real pain because I don't like tomatoes or nuts and I won't eat anything with eggs as it's always battery eggs. I can't stand the veggie meat substitutes and loathe tofu. My Christmas dinner used to be a plate full of vegetables covered in bread sauce ..... til we started raising our own cockerels for the table. Now it's a plate full of veggies plus some chicken all smothered in bread sauce.

[quickcluck]

Mazzy, do you mean Pulse???? Haven't been there for a while, but they do a good lunch!

[BeckyBoo]

Becky; Indian is great for vegan... all those pulses and lentils

 

Except most of it is cooked in clarified butter! I can't stand meat substitutes, if I wanted something that tasted like bacon I'd eat bacon! Don't like tofu much either although toffutti is a FAB garlic and herb cream cheese substitute which I have on occasion as it is cheese I miss the most (although it's easing off! ) Hate soya milk - tastes like plant roots to me (complete with earth attatched!) but rice milk, hazlenut and vanilla, is lovely and chocolate oatley is to die for!

But you're right, most of it has fat levels off the scale for veggies because it's all dairy based. Trying to be low fat and veggie is quite hard I think - not such an issue as a vegan. I'm loving it!

(and no, I now don't eat eggs, just don't tell my girls )

 

BeckyBoo

[Woodcat]

Becky; Indian is great for vegan... all those pulses and lentils

 

Except most of it is cooked in clarified butter!

 

 

I'm not a vegan but i am lactose intolerent and i actually think it is impossible for me to eat out. Half the world doesn't even know what it is and the other half don't realise it's not just milk. I've just come back from a chinese resturant and i asked with everything i ordered and i know that i've eaten some despite that. I was also most annoyed because there wasn't a single thing on the pudding menu that i could eat everything was ice cream or toffee.

 

At the moment i can't eat anywhere but home without being violently ill and so i have alot of sympathy for the rubbish choices that some restaurants give

[Cinnamon]

There again Woodcat, you have to expect Chinese dishes (or the like) in a Chinese restaurant - they can't all cater for everyone, with all out preferences,intolerances & foibles

 

However,I do appreciate that its difficult, and surely if they do toffee banana & toffee apple, they can knock up a fresh fruit salad if you ask?

 

BTW, its apparantly National hug a vegetarian day tomorrow, my daughter informs me

[Valkyrie]

I forgot to mention Yo Sushi does lots of vegetarian options - it's DD's favourite place. Plus there are the usual raw fish bits or cooked non veggie bits so we are all catered for very well. London is the best for that so far - there's one in Reading but prefer London near the theatres.

[BeckyBoo]

?

 

BTW, its apparantly National hug a vegetarian day tomorrow, my daughter informs me

 

 

Ohhhhh, i'm working with a rather nice vegetarian tomorrow afternoon - might drop that one into conversation!

 

BeckyBoo

[Woodcat]

There again Woodcat, you have to expect Chinese dishes (or the like) in a Chinese restaurant - they can't all cater for everyone, with all out preferences,intolerances & foibles

 

 

It was the not being able to answer the does this have milk butter etc honestly in their dishes that got to me. Most chinese stuff doesn't use butter which was why i went. the puddings at the end was the final straw tonight.

[quickcluck]

I dont eat eggies either

[sadietoo]

When I posted this I forgot to say what my worst meal out was....a green salad..it was seriously the only veggie thing on the menu..(they'd run out of goats cheese parfait in filo or whatever the veggie choice was) . Thing was it was their fault but I was sooo embarassed cos the last thing you want when out with your friends is to cause a fuss...but it's hard to stretch a salad for two courses. The best place I have ever eaten...Cafe Paradiso in Cork.... pure heaven (followed closely by Terre a Terre in Brighton)

 

And Brighton also has Food for Friends which can sometimes be a bit hit or miss, but is cheaper than Terre a terre and generally a very pleasant experience. (and open on Mondays unlike Terre a Terre) There's another veggie diner in Brighton called Waikikamoocow...I haven't found it yet.but I'd like to eat there...just cos I like the name!!!

[Valkyrie]

Love the name too! When you find it I hope it doesn't disappoint you.

[BeckyBoo]

Waikikamoocow...I haven't found it yet.but I'd like to eat there...just cos I like the name!!!

Isn't that a place in NZ? When we were in Australia we found a place called Mooball, and everything and I mean lamposts, kerbstones, shops, chairs, tables, are ALL painted black and white like a friesian cow!!

 

http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/884750.jpg

 

BeckyBoo

[Cinnamon]

Love it Bex!!!

 

Cleo & I went to Giraffe the other week, & they had a good choice for her.

She had a sort of field mushroom & Humous burger, & it looked heavenly

[LaPoule]

I'm not a vegan but i am lactose intolerent and i actually think it is impossible for me to eat out.

 

I can really sympathise - I am a vegetarian (has it really been 13 years?!?! - surely I'm too young for that to be possible ), and a couple of years ago, I was diagnosed with coeliacs disease. So, it's either omlette or risotto for me...