Can you recommend some veggie products?

Gingham_Ribbon

If you're not vegetarian, then you probably won't be put off by the battery eggs in a lot of quorn products, so they're a good standby.

But I love Cauldren sausages and tofu. I also think Linda Macartney pies are okay as a standby.

But I agree with the poster who said her best veggie standby was a tin of chickpeas or other pulses. I can make a pasta, curry or chilli dish quicker than I can deal with turning sausages etc just by chopping an onion, sticking in some random veg and a tin of chick peas with some herbs or spices and passata.

Tofu is decidedly quick, and great in stirfries.

Prudent

researcher wrote:

I really like falafel, they're kept in the chiller in the supermarket and even M&S have started selling them too. (They're spicey chick-pea paties - although the M&S ones use broad beans too).

I love falafel. M & S isn't too handy for me. Can you buy at any other supermarkets? Or even better does anyone have a recipe?

Prudent

Benny24 wrote:

Check out this little book "No meat for me please" by Jan Arkless

a fantastic little book with single recepies for someone who doesn't fancy meat. My mum bought it back in the late 80's when I went through a "sixth former, i'm going vegie" phase.
The thought of cooking meat for the family and none for one was a nightmare for her but this book was a godsend.
The vege gravy made with red wine and the nut and lentil roasts are to die for!

I'm a meat eater now thanks to some one whafting a smoke bacon buttie under my nose during a hangove at Uni! But I still go back to this book for some great vegge recepies.

You can get it through Amazon for about £1.00!

Thank you. daughter going through a teenage veggie phase just now.

nickyhutch

I was veggie for around 12 years, and my son, 12, always has been. IMO these processed veggie foods are passable and useful as standbys, but to be honest you CAN make much nicer and far healthier stuff yourself, and dead dead cheaply too. Get a book from the library or a boot sale. look on sites such as the vegetarian society and uktvfood.co.uk.

my son's never had a ready meal in his life, until he had to try one in food tech at school to compare with home made stuff.

LizD_2

if you can find Granose stuff, thats' pretty good. Dried nut roasts and similar things that you make up with water and cook. Available in health food shops and some supermarkets, i think. It's made by the people that do RealEat.

http://www.haldanefoods.co.uk/products/drymix/

Get Real stuff is nice too, although I've only found the Ambledown Roast and Adzuki beans in my local Sainsburys so far.

http://www.get-real.co.uk/

sexymouse

Can I just say, that Quorn products no longer use battery eggs, which is why they are now approved by the Vegetarian society.

Chell

nickyhutch wrote:

I was veggie for around 12 years, and my son, 12, always has been. IMO these processed veggie foods are passable and useful as standbys, but to be honest you CAN make much nicer and far healthier stuff yourself, and dead dead cheaply too. Get a book from the library or a boot sale. look on sites such as the vegetarian society and uktvfood.co.uk.

I agree, I think with veggie food its good to be confident too, try out your own ideas. Just make up your own recipes and see if they work or not.