Best vegan pigs in blankets

[zandix]

Hi,

I no longer eat pork and am looking for a non-pork alternative that tastes great /as close to meat as possible.

TIA

https://www.ocado.com/products/m-s-12-vegan-pigs-in-blankets-592095011?

https://groceries.morrisons.com/products/morrisons-plant-revolution-10-no-pigs-in-blankets-594701011

Thank you, have you tried any of these?

You can buy turkey sausages and turkey bacon. Easy to make your own

According to the Times, Aldi vegan PIBs are the best.

I can't give personal recommendations, but the VeganUK subreddit has more experience. Sainsbury's frozen pups in blankets seems be the winner on this thread. But meat replacements are so personal in what people do and don't like that it might be worth trying a test batch before. I use the Ottolenghi sticky pomegranate and pistachio pigs in blankets recipe, so I figure that will hide a multitude of sins.

The ingredients list on vegan pigs in blankets is atrocious.

I'd rather eat a roast carrot.

Pea Sausage (Water, Pea Protein, Shea Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Coconut Oil, Thickener: Methyl Cellulose; Potato Flake, Bamboo Fibre, Rice Flour, Flavourings, Chickpea Flour, Sea Salt, White Pepper, Sugar, Cornflour, Ground Ginger, Dried Sage, Yeast Extract, Colour: Beetroot Red; Ground Mace, Ground Nutmeg, Dried Thyme, Dextrose, Cayenne Pepper, Antioxidants: Sodium Ascorbate, Sodium Citrates; Onion Powder, Rosemary Extract. Filled Into Vegetable Based Casings (Calcium Alginate)). Vegan Bacon (Water, Rapeseed Oil, 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭 Protein, Thickeners: Methyl Cellulose, Carrageenan, Konjac Gum, Xanthan Gum, Sodium Alginate; Cornflour, Flavourings, Pea Isolate, Vegetable Fibre, Pea Protein, Sea Salt, Yeast Extract, Smoke Flavouring, Maltodextrin, 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐭 Extract, Plant & Fruit Concentrate (Hibiscus Concentrate, Black Carrot Concentrate, Peach Concentrate, Orange Concentrate)).

Is it just pork or any meat. Because lamb is a good alternative

then crack on with your roast carrots elsewhere. this thread is clearly asking for porky tasting veggie pigs in blankets which are obviously going to be very processed and have long, complicated ingredients list.

Why bother? I don't understand why you'd be vegan if you're just going to seek out things that look/taste like meat products.

This. I'm also unsure how turkey is good for vegans

No I won't 'go elsewhere'.

Wind your neck in.

I was here to see if there was indeed an alternative as I have 4 vegans coming for Christmas dinner. However I have found that there isn't - I wouldn't feed that shit to anyone or anything.

Enjoy your plastic sausages.

you don't understand the concept being morally opposed to commercial farming of sentient creatures for meat and/or animal products, while still thinking those items are objectively tasty and wanting an equivalent that means to can enjoy them and suits your conscience? It's not difficult to grasp.

🙄

Hi, it’s just pork

I don’t understand why you’d leave such a snarky comment when I haven’t said anywhere that I’m vegan? I simply don’t eat pork..

I’ve only asked for vegan pigs in blankets suggestions because I’ve looked for non-pork pigs in blankets however it seems that supermarkets only sell pork ones or vegan ones. Therefore, I want to know from others with experience which are the nicest

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/286817253 non-pork actual bacon (from turkey)

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/312364224 (ditto sausages)

Halve the 8 sausages to get chipolata size and wrap the rashers around. Will take all of 2 mins. No weird fake ingredients like the vegan version, just non-pork meat. If you aren't vegan then the vegan ones really won't be convincing, they only really fool you if it's been a decade or so since you had the real thing. The turkey-meat version is much better.

Thanks for this!

Never got on with turkey "bacon" but Macon is absolutely the closest to the real thing I found
https://groceries.asda.com/product/olives-antipasti/frankies-farm-streaky-lamb-macon/1000200923405

Will be actually attempting to salt cure my own next month probably.
Heck has nice non pork sausages

@ticktickticktickBOOM You sound pleasant, let people eat what they want to eat. Copying and pasting ingredients, ‘plastic sausage’. You sound really triggered- get some help!

@PamelaParis Generally meat doesn’t look like bits of dead animal does it. Why do you camouflage it. 😂Goes both ways.

There is a vegan board if you’re interested/ have vegan guests to cater for. Also means you don’t get twatty responses, (I don’t eat meat or dairy) DH and DD do.

Why bother? I don't understand why you'd be vegan if you're just going to seek out things that look/taste like meat products.

Because they may like meat but don’t want to eat animals.

In this case, OP isn’t vegan, she just doesn’t want to eat pork so was asking about vegan ones as they may be suitable for her.

Do try to keep up Pam.

I don’t understand why you’d leave such a snarky comment when I haven’t said anywhere that I’m vegan? I simply don’t eat pork.

Even if you were vegan, leaving a comment like that isn’t ok. Unfortunately, many people think it’s ok to do this, it happens all the time on any thread mentioning vegan...yet apparently it’s vegans that are preachy.