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People who don't eat meat, what do you do instead?o inst

129 replies

CalicoPusscat · 03/11/2024 16:17

I am torn!

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Brandnewskytohangyourstarsupon · 03/11/2024 16:56

Just the veg and roasties. Lush.

I’ve no interest in nut roast or the like.

Waterboatlass · 03/11/2024 16:57

I make a nut roast with a cheesy layer, and sometimes my version of pigs in blankets with sage leaves, onion and cauldron sausage pieces wrapped in thinly sliced halloumi. Also veggie gravy and bread sauce.

I've seen nice sounding alternatives including tarts, wellingtons, pies, but I really don't like pasty on a roast, for me, it's a different meal! Similarly anything tomatoey

dogcatbird · 03/11/2024 16:58

I dislike nut roast so I do a yummy veggie lasagne or spinach ricotta cannelloni, with roast veggies, potatoes, gravy, stuffing balls and all the other bits you get with a roast dinner.

permanently · 03/11/2024 17:05

I've made a fake chicken and leek pie for a few years which has been well received!

OnlyWhenILaugh · 03/11/2024 17:07

Mushroom and nut Wellington- made with port, thyme, cranberry and lots of garlic. Red wine veggie gravy, vegan sausages, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, roast carrots, red cabbage, sprouts, mashed swede ....

Seasmoke · 03/11/2024 17:14

I normally get a nut roast or a tartlet for DS2, who is the only veggie. Lidl fo nice individual ones of both. He also has Richmond cocktail sausages instead of pigs in blankets. I don't wrap them in veggie bacon because it's vile, but he's happy with just the sausages.

Meercat3 · 03/11/2024 17:15

OnionBudgie · 03/11/2024 16:54

My go-to recipe is a green lentil & walnut nut roast, from Rose Elliot's The Bean Book. It's absolutely delicious. I serve it with mashed potatoes, veg gravy, and all the usual vegetables.

could you please link this recipe?

indigoemerald · 03/11/2024 17:16

The M&S nut roasts are always my go to!

OnionBudgie · 03/11/2024 17:27

Meercat3 · 03/11/2024 17:15

could you please link this recipe?

I don't have a link, unfortunately, the recipe is in a physical book. Worth getting the book, though, as it's crammed with great recipes!

Midlifecareerchange · 03/11/2024 17:30

two types of nut roast (one wellington and one very mild cashew and carrot that the children love) slow cooked cabbage in wine and spices, sprouts, roast carrots, parsnips and potatoes, gravy. Yum 😋

Runskiyoga · 03/11/2024 17:48

I get puff pastry and make Brie and cranberry twists, they go down well

mydogisthebest · 03/11/2024 17:54

Me and DH are veggie. We cook Christmas dinner for 12 others, 4 of them also being veggie.

We have, over the years, made nut roast, vegetable strudel, butternut squash wellington, goats cheese and caramelized red onion tarts, goats cheese and beetroot tarts, vegetable roulade.

The non veggie have turkey, which my sister cooks

Captainladder · 03/11/2024 17:56

Usually something a bit more faffy than we cook every day, eg ....
ottolengi wild mushroom lasagna
the mushroom wellington from the New York Times
not just a nut roast by the vegsoc
hugh f-w cheesy stuffed baked squash
and all the side bits.

we hardly ever have a "Sunday roast" type meal throughout the year so anything with those sides feels a bit special for us.

this year we have gone all in on the M&S pre made Christmas food as we are all just exhausted and trying to make things easy as possible. Plus their chocolate pine cones look impossibly cute!

SoloSofa24 · 03/11/2024 18:04

OP, are you the veggie one, looking for inspiration, or do you have visiting vegetarians/vegans you want to cater for? If it is the latter, I would check preferences with them, particularly if you are thinking of going for any meat-substitute style things.

I have been vegetarian for more than forty years and I would feel sick at the thought of eating the loin thing someone posted above. I much prefer vegetarian food that is not pretending to be meat (so that would rule out the Quorn roast too), and I know that is common with long-term veggies rather than recent converts.

My Christmas meals over the years have featured all sorts of things, but favourites have been mushroom, spinach and nut wellingtons (but pretty much anything can work if wrapped in pasty, eg a lentil mixture), parsnip roulade, nut roast or, most recently, an Ottolenghi celebration rice cake with mushrooms and chestnuts (you can find the recipe on the Guardian website, I think).

CalicoPusscat · 03/11/2024 18:05

Cool, some good ideas here, thanks!

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ItTook9Years · 03/11/2024 18:05

SoloSofa24 · 03/11/2024 18:04

OP, are you the veggie one, looking for inspiration, or do you have visiting vegetarians/vegans you want to cater for? If it is the latter, I would check preferences with them, particularly if you are thinking of going for any meat-substitute style things.

I have been vegetarian for more than forty years and I would feel sick at the thought of eating the loin thing someone posted above. I much prefer vegetarian food that is not pretending to be meat (so that would rule out the Quorn roast too), and I know that is common with long-term veggies rather than recent converts.

My Christmas meals over the years have featured all sorts of things, but favourites have been mushroom, spinach and nut wellingtons (but pretty much anything can work if wrapped in pasty, eg a lentil mixture), parsnip roulade, nut roast or, most recently, an Ottolenghi celebration rice cake with mushrooms and chestnuts (you can find the recipe on the Guardian website, I think).

Same. I’m also allergic to tomatoes and don’t want pasta anywhere near gravy. 🤮

whiteroseredrose · 03/11/2024 18:07

Nut roast or lentil roast, lentil lasagne / bolognaise, chickpea curries, three bean chilli with Guacamole, occasionally Linda McCartney sausages.

U13579 · 03/11/2024 18:11

Agree.with previous posts regarding checking about meat substitutes, a lot of people don't eat them. My daughter can't because they make her unwell. I LOVE a nut roast! Sometimes a mushroom pie with puff pastry, might consider tofu this year too

whiteroseredrose · 03/11/2024 18:14

Sorry! Missed that this was Christmas! Nut and mushroom roast with flaky pastry.

Openmouthinsertfood · 03/11/2024 18:23

I've been veggie for almost all my life and I've never tried a nut roast! Does it taste of nuts? Silly question I know. I used to have Linda McCartney's sausage rolls with my Christmas dinner but this year they seem to have changed and are no where near as nice as they once were. I'll have veg, roast potatoes, Yorkshires and onion gravy.

Dawevi · 03/11/2024 18:26

I used to have nut roast but now I have juicy marbles.

ComfortableCushion · 03/11/2024 18:29

Quorn roast here and then everything the same as non veggies. Makes it easy then. Maybe check though about Quorn.

OctogenarianDecathlete · 03/11/2024 18:29

Awrite · 03/11/2024 16:21

I just eat all the veggies.

Aaaaalll the veggies!

I'm not veggie but DH is. The meat is really the worst part of the meal next to amazing roasties, braised red cabbage, honey glazed parsnips, buttered carrots, good old broccoli, sweet potato mash and really good gravy.

Honestly. Don't make a manky old nut roast, more veg instead!

CalliopePlantain · 03/11/2024 18:31

I have veggie pigs in blankets in the hole