To say that vegans can't really like food?

[DrRisotto]

I mean they don't eat most food so most cooking shows and recipe books are pointless for them. Going out for meals a chore. Birthdays, celebrations, dates... so much of is centred around food which they have to deny themselves and pick around.

I have nothing against vegans and everyone has the absolute right to eat what they want. But trying to cater for a vegan along with other guests is bloody hard work.

Reckon I'll get roasted for this.

slim oh and everyone's favourite 'plants have feelings too'

I still eat meat and dairy, but tend to cook a lot of vegan dinners because they are cheap, delicious and nutritious (as long as you are not eating lots of processed substitutes or ready meals).

In many ways it is easier to eat uninspiring food when you rely on meat as the centre of a meal. Meat, carb, veg - this can be so boring!

Btw, a lot of the best Indian food is vegan, or at the very least vegetarian. You wouldn't call it bland!

Thanks lentil
I confess I'm not an expert but I thought soy was mostly fed to animals
I've never served avocado to vegans, I don't think my friends are big on those
Palm oil, no idea
But I don't have kids or run a car and probably will never travel by air again so I figure I'm not treating the environment too badly.

Is vegan a good way to avoid office feeders, I wonder, or will they just buy vegan junk?

I think pasta can be vegan if it's free range and died of natural causes

They'll just buy vegan junk. A lot of junk is vegan anyway because it's so far removed from food in the first place. Oreos, jam donuts, jus rol croissants, skittles, all vegan.

Or just Tesco basic pasta.

I can't have Oreos in my home, might as well be crack as far as I'm concerned.

Not read through the whole thread. Just wanted to say Don't be so ignorant

Use a Vegan cook book for inspiration. Plenty of hosts see it as a challenge.

Catering for vegans is easy - the only difficult thing is getting the non-vegans to leave enough of the vegan dishes for the vegan dinner guest. It surprising how much interest there is for a new dish the host hasn't produced before.

I made Jamie Oliver's Sicilian squash and chickpea stew tonight and served it with black rice.

Bloody delicious and coincidentally vegan

People love to 'whataboutary' to derail conversations while simultaneously not doing anything about the things hey are bringing up themselves. 99% of the time the people bringing up the hipocrasy of vegans are doing bog all about the things they claim to care about.

We live in an unfair world and it's impossible to fight every battle so I've chosen the one that I think can make the most difference to the most amount of lives.

I've chosen to be vegan because I just don't believe that humans have a right to take a sentient being, who can feel pain and has the capacity for feelings life, just so we can eat something that we think tastes a bit nicer when we could live full and happy lives eating something else.

If we lived more symbiotically with the land then I might feel differently but this is the action I've decided to take as someone living in the west with the resources to easily eat a lentil or grab a vegan brownie.

I have a lot of respect for people who are trying, even if their conclusions are way different to mine. But I find the 'all vegans are hipocrites because they own an iphone' shit so tedious.

“AIBU Vegans must hate food”

“I’m vegan and I don’t hate food”

“OMFG there goes the vegan saying they’re vegan again, how do you know if someone’s vegan don’t worry they’ll tell you LOL”

I have a few friends on fb who are vegan and I only have an issue with one of them. It got to the point where I don't bother with most of their posts now as they are either trying to tell everyone that everyone who goes vegan will suddenly become healthier and never have another health issue ever again, or conspiracy theories.
The rest are lovely people.
I would guess that people who refuse to have any kind of vegan food have never even thought or looked at the labels of what they buy in the shops.

Wow, that's a goady post.

Vegan here (since you ask ) and I LOVE food. In fact I need to go on a diet as I have been hitting the foodz a bit too much recently.

Also: I was very proud of myself when I started my new job, because it took 2 WEEKS for anyone to notice I was vegan. Fuck you, "Oh they'll fucking tell you BWAA HA HA HA" arseholes.

Have to admit, I have no time for vegans, and refuse to cater for any.

I've no time for goady twats.

You must be fucking simple if you can't make a dish without dairy.

We eat a lot of vegetarian food here. Because we like it. A lot of my best recipes are vegan, coincidentally.

If only there was a huge, diverse, resource, readily available where you could search around for recipies to wow your vegan friends with...oh wait.

Ive noticed a lot of oddness around vegan haters

Not least the racial element...if I say my grandparents and other family members are vegan, no matter how weird anyone thinks it is, they won't say that because the GPs were foreign.

Also I have yet to come across anyone's religious dietary choices being openly questioned the way vegan choices seem to be.

On reflection perhaps the op isn't so much goady as "Waah, I can't stretch my brain a bit". Certainly seems to have run away.

*CoughLaughFart

Have to admit, I have no time for vegans, and refuse to cater for any.

I've no time for goady twats.

You must be fucking simple if you can't make a dish without dairy.*

Great response 😂

"The only vegans/vegetarians I've met have been people who use it as an excuse - I think - to be very picky eaters and reduce the amount of food they eat below what most people have"

For anyone who loves plates full of food (or greedy fuckers, if we are being less polite), yet don't want to get fat, Veganism is the way to go. Combine it with weight lifting and you won't be afflicted with the tell tale UK/US/German body shape, at any age.

For those against it, most Women who are having issues during the Menopause find going mainly Vegan alleviates them, for both sexes, stroke/cardiovascular issues, also, so once your peer group is over 55, you will find more people eating mainly Vegetarians/ Vegan meals, among them.

once your peer group is over 55, you will find more people eating mainly Vegetarians/ Vegan meals, among them.

I have actually noticed that women over the age of 50 in my circle of family/friends have almost universally abandoned red meat and eat very little of other meat types.... this is spanning 20-odd years, so not a new thing. How interesting!

Tonight I had a lovely vegan pizza and chocolate torte at Zizzi. Being vegan means you sometimes need to be more creative, like making cheese from cashew nuts etc. There are also lots of meat and dairy free imitation products available. Also lots of 'accidentally ' vegan things (some pringles, Oreos). There's also a lot of good books for vegans like thug kitchen and deliciously Ella. It's getting a lot easier to be vegan with companies like Ben & Jerrys, Linda McCartney and Quorn getting on board. I've been vegan for two years and I love food (a bit too much lol lol).

Mmmmm the zizzi chocolate tart is incredible

Been a vegetarian for +25 years now and often cook vegan food as dh is vegan now. I absolutely love food, tonnes of cook books, love watching cookery shows (even the non vegetarian ones, as you can just think of alternatives), grow my own at allotment, have lots of food projects on the go (making miso, rice pickles, kimchi etc).
There's so much ingredients/dishes out there that don't contain dairy or meat or can be adapted to that, you'd have to be not interested in food to not realise that.

Have you been outside or spent more than 5 minutes on the Internet? There are vegan options literally everywhere or are you just trying to be controversial cause you have a spare hour before bed?

Hold the vegan-sub mayo, everyone.

The OP was a plot. I opened the thread, read the thread, looked again at the MN around me; ADVERTS FOR VEGAN STUFF.

It was a ruse.

Yabu. but it's true that most eateries rely so heavily on animal products that it can be hard to eat out as a vegan.