Can you help me plan a lovely vegan, nut free lunch?

[talkingnonsense]

Our lovely friends are coming to lunch on Sunday and he is a vegan who does not eat nuts. I would love to give them something yummy and homemade- as they are travelling and could arrive any time I thought we would have nice bread, salad, maybe peppers stuffed with lentils? But what about a pudding? Can I make a cake with vegan margerine and no eggs? I am a complete meat eater so am really really stuck as I so want to make them feel welcome!

i make coconut rice pudding loads, it's delicious.

i just make it up as usual, but use coconut milk topped up with oat milk (or the milk of your choice)
add a little grated lemon zest and it's so nice

hey, did you see that? I just meal-planned my own nut free vegan dinner

Egs aren't dairy, they come from chickens, not cows, and don't contain milk. Honey is, basically, bee poo. Not from cows.

I linked to it, Colditz.

That was to rice pudding, not bee poo.

who said eggs were dairy?

oh and afaik honey isn't protein

"so non-vegans get meat products and dairy. wow. 2 whole extra things. amazing."

Was just pointing out that actually we get four, as neither honey nor eggs are either meat or dairy.

my point anyway, was that you can't say "oh a nut free vegan has only 2 sources of protein, whereas I have cow, duck, chicken, lamb" etc etc

if yo're counting ALL beans, pulses, legumes etc as ONE source then you have to count ALL meat as ONE source.

so non-vegans don't have that many extra sources of protein do they?

and honey isn't a bloody protein either. so i'll give you 3!

I was talking about food, and the difficulty of feeding a vegan nut free person. Not protein foods specifically (although eggs are an excellent source of complete protein)

argh i actually just laughed out loud at the fact that we're arguing over what is and isn't protein and how many different sources vegans and non-vegans have

I HATE THE INTERNET!!!

lol

this is me

OK. So vegans get:

1. Pulses (and ensuing derivatives thereof)
2. Nuts
3. Grains (I remain unconvinced on this one but will yield on it, especially quinoa)
4. Avocadoes

Meat-eaters get these PLUS:
5.Eggs

1. Dairy
2. Meat (I am including fish under meat although some would insist on a separate category).

Meat-eaters also get honey, but that isn't in the protein argument.

So vegans do get a range of four protein options, but meat-eaters get seven.

All of which obviously does not look at other arguments for eating or not eating meat.

Oh God TIY, that is so true.

Sorry MI, I'm just giggling now. At myself. I have vegan mates, FFS. I know they're healthy...... I must excuse myself and say that I have a scarred nerve, it's painful, and I'm being a wanker here so I'm not a wanker to my children

I might go and do some work. I am actually quite a nice and competent person in RL, you know.

I need to cook dinner.

Actually I really want coconut rice pudding, thank you for the link MI

Oh, everyone knows the vegan diet's the best!

Some great suggestions already here. Post Punk Kitchen's v. good for cake recipes.

Try the Viva! website too. vegetarianrecipeclub.org.uk/

Five minutes ago, I was actually googling the protein content of honey, do you realise that? (negligable, by the way)

am laughing so much now that the children are giving me strange looks.

i am liking the list M.I

i feel that avocadoes can't be a thing on their own can they? poor avocadoes. is avocado a fruit or what? are there other things like it that have protein in???

i can't help but feel that all we have established is that meat-eaters have more choice of protein. which we all already knew.

turns out an avocado is, technically, a berry.

who knew

oh ho.

and let's not forget that one form of protein that not all meat-eaters get, but many vegans enjoy

i'll say 3 words

spit or swallow?

EEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWW

(I wonder what happens if you fry it? Does it congeal like egg white does?)

Just mash it into potato for that lovely, creamy consistency.

Well I couldn't really serve that for lunch... Maybe they need to be even better friends?!