Work sustainability policy dictating crap food

Quorn gives lots of people reaction. Dh throws up violently. Unfortunate found out while in a city centre....
There was at one point discussion that the ampunt of people who react, it should maybe be marked as proper allergen.

I don't eat fake meat, milk or cheese though - they aren't nice and quorn gives me stomach aches.

Depends a lot on what they are serving - not all veggie and vegan food is sustainable!

However if it's couscous, roasted veggies and hummus that sounds lovely

DD not Dad

Dad turned veggie this year and we did try Quorn/TVP style meat replacement but we both decided it's pretty gross. I hate Tofu too, but DD likes it, however this is an ancient food, not stuff grown in a lab. So we eat a diet based on beans, pulses, nuts, veggies, and dairy foods. I am still a meat eater but it's cheaper to cook one meal over two.

I take issue with fake meat & milk anyway, it takes a lot of energy and added flavourings to make this fake nonsense taste nice. Sometimes there's so many chemicals and things I can't pronounce in this stuff I wonder how much better it is really over eating a fish fillet or a breast of chicken.

As for waste, OMG yes! I hate it. It's not sustainable if too much is being ordered and it's not eaten! All that time, energy, money and resources wasted.

Take a pack lunch with plenty of neat and pointedly munch loudly.

People are omnivores not carnivores.

It's not 'curious' to want to eat a falafel, egg sandwich or a piece of spanokopita, it's normal food that anyone could eat.

Just because people do eat meat doesn't mean they need or want everything to contain meat so they're likely to be selecting the things they like or choosing a variety of food so they don't end up with a plate of 'five ways of processed pork'.

@CharlotteStreetW1 you're absolutely right there.
For a very short while us vegetarians actually got a decent choice in restaurants and now once again we don’t. All the lovely cheesy foods are now made with awful vegan cheese.
Aparently, once again, we don’t get a choice.
We had to put up with meat only now it’s vegan only.
Im sick of it.

It depends what it is. I can't eat mushrooms, quorn type things, lentils or chickpeas. This kind of limits what I can have and even more so if the food was vegan as I wouldn't be able to have egg.

I can't eat wheat.
I'm lucky if there is anything I can eat at a work event (that I haven't brought myself) - and after a memorable 5am-10pm work trip which I was told was fully catered and allergen friendly, but the only food the catering company could find for me was an orange they'd planned to use as a garnish, I either take my own food, or have preresearched plans to order a takeaway delivered to the event if the food isn't acceptable.

I'd be horrified if the only food provided was the cardboard wheat/gluten free over processed crap, that while 'safe' to eat, barely qualifies as food.

Could you cater wheat free and provide a delicious nutritious meal with plenty of options, yes. Is this what happens, no.

So my recommendation is to stage a rebellion, and order locally produced pizza/sushi/your food of choice to be delivered fresh to your workplace, and eat it in front of the management team. Bonus points for loudly stating your disappointment in the lack of support for British/Scottish/Welsh/Irish/wherever you are based pig/cow/chicken farmers

Why?
What food will be there?

why ?

I have no issue with plates of fresh fruit and veg but the fake meat and cheese is so bad for our health.

Trouble is, caterers are lazy and think the vegetarians want the crap the vegans want

See also restaurants. One of my vegetarian cousin says she still wants her veggie lasagne (for example) oozing béchamel sauce and real cheese but vegetarian choices as opposed to vegan are increasingly hard to find.

I love a vegetarian buffet and I'm a meat eater.

I eat meat but when I cater a party, most of the food is vegetarian (because the curious carnivores always eat the vegetarian stuff anyway leaving the poor vegetarians with a lettuce leaf and a dollop of egg mayo with a stale nub of baguette) with a couple of token meat dishes.

I agree with the OP that if the vegetarian/vegan catering is particularly unappetising, then there will be more waste and perhaps the choices could be re-thought because there is so much delicious food that doesn't involve meat or animal products but the principle is sound and I think the OP is giving this way too much headspace.

Not carbon footprint, the processes involed and their environmental impact

Coronation chickpea sand which! Devine. But yeah happy to eat falafels and proper vegan food. No thanks to the upf dairy and meat substitutes which made me very ill at a recent conference with fully vegan food!

You're being quite childish OP...you're not being 'dictated to' just because your workplace isn't pandering to your every whim 🤣

Calling it dystopian 😂😂 lord. You have given me a good giggle today. I assume you're quite young. This is not the hill to die on

The use of the term dystopia suggests it’s more about being told what you’re going to get than anything else.

Suggest you turn it around and if it’s something you’re arranging you chose the veggie choices and if it’s not you suggest some.

Its not that often

It does sound like more of a quality issue than specifically that it's veggie/vegan.

Do you ever get feedback forms, where your guests can all complain about the food so it's not coming from you?