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I need to chat to some vegans please - advise is sought.

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ThomCat · 14/05/2007 21:28

We're going away this weekend to stay with our friends and their kids.

The family are strict vegans.

I think I've already insulted her when discussing what we needed to bring. She bought up bringing milk and then said 'oh and you could bring cheese I suppose, if you wanted, and if you really had to I suppose eggs would be ok'. I said 'ohh don't worry about us, we won't be wanting eggs, we'll be fine but yes the girls will need some normal milk'! Whoops - she sort of scoffed at me using the word normal in regard to cows milk being drunk by humans! I hope I covered myself by saying 'well, you know normal to them'.

Anyway - I want to take a few bits down with me to contribute to the food over the weekend plus a gift for her but feel terrified I'll bring something that will be all wrong.

They are more D's friends than mine and they are massively lovely but have very strong opinions on things!

I thought I might take her flowers and then thought 'oh God no, she'll probably think that flowers cut from their natural environment to be shoved in a glass vase is wrong or something!

So - what shall I take in way of food and what gift might be good for her?

TIA

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Gingerbear · 14/05/2007 21:32

I guess a brace of pheasant and a young deer over DP's shoulder is out of the question then?

I would take something organic - and home grown perhaps.

Gingerbear · 14/05/2007 21:33

How about a box of able and cole veggies?

xigris · 14/05/2007 21:33

What about a nice plant or a bottle of organic wine?

xigris · 14/05/2007 21:35

Oh and LOL to Gingerbear! Maybe add a few tubs of Ben&Jerry's too!

KerryMum · 14/05/2007 21:36

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ThomCat · 14/05/2007 21:38

Hmmm organic wine is good idea and sil has her own allotment, might see if I can fleece her for some of her home made chutneys made with her allotment produce, plus some spinach etc.

What about a gift for her that isn't food?
I thought bath stuff but again thought it might open a whole can of animal fat!

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xigris · 14/05/2007 21:39

What about some nice Neal's Yard type stuff?

ThomCat · 14/05/2007 21:51

I'm not going to be able to get to a Neals Yard between now and Saturday morning though.

God I'm bound to buy something wrong at this rate.

Maybe the health food shop will sell some, ummmm, some nice, errrr, nice hand cream???!!!

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Ellbell · 14/05/2007 21:54

What about a book? (Depends how well you know her taste, I suppose, but should be free from animal products, at least.)

ThomCat · 14/05/2007 21:59

Hmmm, nice idea re the book - but a) don't know her tastes at all, b) our local bookshop just shut down so only kids bookshop left (idea - books for her 2 girls might be nice actually) and c) she won't mind that books use paper and therefore destroy trees will she???!!

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KerryMum · 14/05/2007 22:04

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FairyMum · 14/05/2007 22:06

Vegans normally cook using lots of spices, so I would buy some nice exotic spices and oils.

ThomCat · 14/05/2007 22:08

Kerrymum - you have no idea how funny that gift idea is!
She has just had the entires streets sewage dumped into her garden! The sewage people ahd to flush the system 4 times - into her garden. It all has to be ripped out as it's all contaminated and is in quarantine due to hep b or c or something. They have bits of loo roll hanging of plants still and everything will need to be ripped out and started again, ata some point but they don't know when yet!

What a nightmare.

So a plant for the garden would be wonderful but perhaps a bit wrong of me given her sewage problem??!!

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ernest · 14/05/2007 22:20

just cos they're vegan doesn't mean they're nutters! bloody hell.

How about some vegan choc, wine (if they drink) and / or plant for garden.

And she's probably psl about your discomfort over milk.

Unless she is a ntter of course.

WigWamBam · 14/05/2007 22:27

Careful with wine - make sure that it's suitable for vegans (a lot of wine is produced using animal or fish bone as finings). Being organic doesn't necessarily mean it's veggie/vegan, although some are.

They might like a plant ... and I don't know a single vegan who doesn't like cut flowers!

FrannyandZooey · 14/05/2007 22:31

Booja Booja truffles

she will forgive you anything after that

KerryMum · 14/05/2007 22:31

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ThomCat · 15/05/2007 09:40

See I knew I had a point with the flowers. Kerrymum I tried to cancel but she won't have it, we just can't go out into the garen.

Thanks for the tip with the wine.

Ernest - being a vegan doesn't make them a nutter at all. But they are vegans wih incredibly strong opinions on everything, and I'm the most easy going live and let live type, I just want to get it right. They are lovely people but they also scare me a bit!

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