Iceland - Quorn Vegetarian food £1!!!

aless02

ASDA also had these for £1 on Saturday...no idea how long the offer is for.

(mince & chicken-style pieces)

johnjp

James_N wrote: »

Oh I am beside myself. I've been holding - BITING - my tongue over the comments posted since my last, but this takes the biscuit so to speak:

So what is mincemeat, as in tarts made from?

johnjp

[quote I'm sure everyone here is glad to be told what they find offensive. [/quote]

I ate a whole bag of Quorn chicken dippers today and can still look at my hens with a clear conscience!
Good on ya!

jeppy

I am not vegetarian, but my kids are! I think that Quorn is a great substitute, some are better than others!!

My favourite is Full English - Quorn bangers, beans, plum tomatoes, poached egg and a rasher of bacon.

Very healthy and very low on calories - but best of all satisfying and very very tasty!!

Also I can't think of a better alternative than Quorn for a chilli! Chunky Quorn beef makes a great option.

Quorn is expensive - so posting these offers is great thanks op!! Sorry those people who seem to have a dislike for veggies have usurped your post!!

And for the record Quorn isn't the only thing grown in the ground!! See previous weird comment.

stumpycat

Thanks for all the cheap Quorn finds.

I'm very puzzled as to why some people are getting their knickers in a twist about it originally being a fungus found in the soil... is it the fungus part? (mushrooms, truffles?)
or is it the soil part (carrots, turnips, radishes... too many to mention?)

Roger_Rampant

I am not vegetarian, but my kids are!

Yes, our daughter (15) went "vegetarian" last year, after seeing various TV shows that covered cruelty to animals / chickens in abbattoirs. I was a bit puzzled why Pepperamis and pork pies still kept disappearing from the fridge, as my wife doesn't eat them and there are only the three of us (plus the cat) living in the house. After trying to claim that one of her school-mates that sometimes came home with her might be pinching them out of our fridge, and that the cat liked Pepperami, we did finally gain an admission that the so-called "vegetarian" diet wasn't quite as "vegetarian" as she would have us believe! :rotfl:

frogglet

Our family have given up meat for lent and so these offers have come at a great time.
It has given my kids the oportunity to try different foods, as I have to say not everything I am cooking is Qourn, but it has enabled me to do their favourite foods so they don't feel it is a massive change. So they still get their "chicken" Korma and "beef" chilli as an encouragement to carry on and get used to eating more veg.

James_N

johnjp wrote: »

So what is mincemeat, as in tarts made from?

Eh? Your point is ...??

James_N

Roger_Rampant wrote: »

Yes, our daughter (15) went "vegetarian" last year, after seeing various TV shows that covered cruelty to animals / chickens in abbattoirs. I was a bit puzzled why Pepperamis and pork pies still kept disappearing from the fridge, as my wife doesn't eat them and there are only the three of us (plus the cat) living in the house. After trying to claim that one of her school-mates that sometimes came home with her might be pinching them out of our fridge, and that the cat liked Pepperami, we did finally gain an admission that the so-called "vegetarian" diet wasn't quite as "vegetarian" as she would have us believe! :rotfl:

This basically is "dishonesty", a lack of thinking things through and not seeing the bigger picture. It's not unusual. I've seen this before.

James_N

stumpycat wrote: »

Thanks for all the cheap Quorn finds.

I'm very puzzled as to why some people are getting their knickers in a twist about it originally being a fungus found in the soil... is it the fungus part? (mushrooms, truffles?)
or is it the soil part (carrots, turnips, radishes... too many to mention?)

The point is that although all mushrooms are fungi, not all fungi are mushrooms. The main-stream manufacturers of this industrially manufactured myoprotein want you to associate the product with "organic" and "mushrooms" and "natural", when it's none of these things.

Personally, I would no more fill my belly with this artificial product than I would cheap poor quality and unethically produced reconstituted chicken pieces. There are ethics in food production and consumption that I hold dear to, and which some people don't come close to thinking about.

There's also the basic dishonesty in making a vegetarian product - however artificial it is - and then giving it the names and taste of the meat products that veggies SAY they abhor - "chicken dippers", for instance. No-one's answered this point - basically because it's indefensible.

But as in all things, marketing often wins over sense. I was trying to make serious points, but these have been deliberately misinterpreted. As has been said - you cannot have a discussion with a closed mind.