So what DO Vegans eat?!! have a look...

[Englishlady]

When people ask what can you eat if you don't eat meat/diary/fish/cheese/eggs? Ioften go blank  ( no change there then ) so I thought I would share with you what Dh and I have been eating for the last few weeks................

Home Made Faux Fish cakes With spicey roasted new potatoes & salad

Home made Tofu pot pie with broccoli, carrots and new potatoes

Linguine pasta with Home made Pesto sauce

Stuffed Porobello Mushrooms ( stuffed with faux tuna and pearl barley in a tomato sauce with green soya beans new potatoes and sprouts.

Fishless fishcakes & Chips ( fries) our "junk food" night!

Jacket potatoes with salad and home made faux Feta Cheese

Soya mince Stew on a bed of mashed potatoes

Roast Tomatoes & Peppers on a bed of spiced Quinoa

Black eyed bean and Aubergine "lasagne" with carrots, potatoes and broccoli

Shepherdless pie & veggies ( soya mince & mash in rich gravy topped with mashed potatoes)

veggie "sauasage" and mash, cauliflower and sweetcorn

baked "cheese" & tomato pasta

cauliflower "cheese" & cous cous

Home made Aubergine Curry with Basmati rice

"sausage" and lentil layer ( "loaf style")

"Cheese" and potato pie with roasted sweet potatos and parsnips

Crockpot stew

"sausage" & mash with veggies

Home made Seitan and pulse pie cauliflower and sprouts

Aubergine "parmagiana"

Stuffed Mushrooms ( stuffed with mushroom pate and pine nuts)

Mince onion and potato pie

Cauliflower "chese" with faux bacon bits, roast parsnips & carrots

home made "cheese" (puff pastry) pasty and baked beans

home made burger, roast parsnips and carrots, minted new potatoes.

home made "pongy" puff pastry pie(roasted shallotts and leeks in a spicy white sauce under a light crips puff pastry shell) with mash peas & cabbage

stuffed peppers ( stuffed with sundried tomatoes faux tuna in a spicy black pepper sauce) with mashed sweet potatoes and garden peas

sheperdless pie carrots mint sauce and mushy peas

I hope that gives you all an idea of what us weirdy Vegans like to eat

 

Well it is actually dinner time here and writing this has made me hungry! I have been de-frosting the freezer so, we are having home made faux fish cakes with hm spicy roast potoatos and sweet corn

Karen

[Darlene]

More power to you Karen, I couldn't do it. So glad there are all kinds of foods to make all of us happy.
When you refer to "cheese" what is that? Oh, thanks for the insight on how the other half eats, love to learn new things.

[Englishlady]

The "Cheese" is Vegan Cheese made from Soya it comes in all sorts of flavours and you can get blocks/slices/cream cheese and best of all, NOT ONE DROP OF CHOLESTEROL

Vegan food is by it's very nature Cholesterol free, so whilst it still has "fat" it is the "good" kind

[forestdale]

Karen, do you do the other vegan things like buy special car tyres and never use leather, honey, wool, silk etc.

[Katybird]

Thanks for the insight Karen. I have wondered what types of main dishes that vagen ate. It sounds like a huge variety of dishes.

[Englishlady]

Rhonda, I am not fanatical but I don't wear leather, or wool or silk, honey is not something I buy, but I wouldn't go appoplectic if I had some in something out side of the home, or outside of my control though I choose to avoid it.

I think the biggest thing is that people are suprised by is that I don't look like a skinny malnourished sandal wearing hippy

[Michele Annette]

I think your dishes sound delicious Karen. Mmmm, I'm hungry now...

[Kimberlina]

Karen, I would love it if you would share some recipes. HM faux fishcakes, for one, if you wouldn't mind. I can even do the conversions myself.

I've been wondering, too, (and please don't answer this if you don't want to) but are you vegan primarily for health reasons, ethical reasons, or other reasons? I always wonder that when I meet pople who are veg/vegan. When I was completely vegetarian, people always asked m. (Come to think of it, since I eat chicken now and no other meat, people STILL ask.) For me, it is primarily because I just don't like the stuff, and then also a little bit: a) it makes me oogy- I don't like to think about it and b)health reasons.

[Englishlady]

Ethical reasons! I would be a Vegan even if it were NOT uber healthy ( which it is ) I think in this day and age it is not necessary to eat sentient creatures ( who ironically are Vegetarian themselves ) JUST because they taste nice

I think if you are not willing to kill the animal yourself, then you don't' have the right to make some one else kill it for you.

Whilst I don't like or agree with it, I DO admire the American way, where you eat the animal you killed.(Those who hunt for food).

THAT is the way it should be IF humans will insist on eating meat.

People say being Vegan "is not natural".
I agree.
But a Heart Attack IS natural!

We all have to make choices, being a Vegan is mine and my arteries love me for it

[pqb57]

Englishlady, we eat seafood but other than that we eat recipies similar to yours. We have been eating like this four about five years and love finding new recipies.

[Michelle]

Originally posted by Englishlady
The "Cheese" is Vegan Cheese made from Soya it comes in all sorts of flavours and you can get blocks/slices/cream cheese and best of all, NOT ONE DROP OF CHOLESTEROL

Vegan food is by it's very nature Cholesterol free, so whilst it still has "fat" it is the "good" kind

I eat soy cheese, and it's not as tasty as regular cheese, but since I am allergic to dairy, it is wonderful

I don't know how you do it either, Karen. I think eating dairy-free is tough enough!

I admire you for sticking with your convictions

[Scattymum]

yummy recipes!, I am veggie myself but alot of my meals end up being more vegan.

When you make the stuffed mushrooms do you use homemade mushroom pate or store bought?. If you make it could I have the recipe or if you buy it where do you buy it from - I am in England for christmas and plan on hitting a few heatlth food stores. The irish are way behind on the choices in the heatlth shops so I stock up if I can when I am elsewhere!

Good for you having such a healthy diet

[slowtypinwoman]

ok I have a question and I mean no offense at all. But , why no dairy products? they are not killed in the process. Is it the living conditions? I had some very happy chickens ( we no longer keep chickens) at my house. They even had a retirement plan. lol It did not end in a roaster btw. lol

[Englishlady]

Marcia, I will be happy to answer your question, on the understanding that you asked, I didn't instigate this

First of all, Cows milk is breast milk for baby cows- calves, they are taken from their mothers during the first few days or weeks of life and often destined to be put in veal crates, where they are fed a thing gruel like substence and can not move so that when they are killed, very young they have very pale flesh, with no muscle tone, so as to "appeal" to the human palate for such tender flesh.
Cows like most mothers pine for their young taken after just a few days.........they get mastitis and all sorts of horrible things wrong with them because humans like cows breast milk
Chickens are only any use if they are female and lay eggs.........male chicks are killed either by being minced alive/gassed or suffocated by being bagged up in plastic bags along with all the other male chicks..only a few survive to become the "serving" male cocks.
All eggs that are not fertilised are actually a hens's "period" pretty much like humans, if a female human doesn't get pregnant, then she has a period, it's the same with hens, only humans eat them because they are "eggs" and taste nice?
The poultry industry is the same whether it is "battery" (intensely farmed)or so called "Free range" all male chicks are killed in the aformentioned ways.

I am sorry if people find it offensive but it is the truth and often the truth IS offensive.

And in my defence, I am just answering a question, in the manner it was asked, just the facts...........no opinions.

[Kimberlina]

Karen, I don't think anyone will find it offensive- you were asked and you answered, and if people don't want to read, they won't.

And when you put it that wway (and you certainly aren't the first person I've heard it from- I was vegetarian and almost vegan for a while and can still go a week or two with little or no dairy/poultry) it does seem pretty nasty. There is a "joke" along the lines of who the heck was the first person that decided to drink something that came out of a cow?

Anyway, I think it is great that you stick to your convictions. Not everyone has the willpower to do it. How long have you been vegan? Was it hard for you at first? Because it seems as if it is pretty easy for you now, which is fabulous- anytime you avoid things commonly found in prepared food, it can be difficult. (Of course, I think a lot of Indian food is Vegan, isn't it? And it seems to me as if there are a lo more Indian foods in the Brtish diet than is common here.)

Okay, enough from me for now. I have holiday things to do.