Vegetarian Christmas alternative?

candygirl

kianicky wrote: »

i'm so glad there is a name now for people who eat fish but not meat. will make it far less annoying for us vegetarians/vegans. the times i've been offered fish when i say i'm a vegetarian is a joke!! grrr!! :mad: :mad: :mad:

I wont stop people being thick, and still offering us chicken and fish though:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

savingforoz

ceebeeby wrote: »

I had Quorn roast, and all the trimmings that everyone else did.

Re: the naming of vegetarian / vegan. As a non meat eater who will eat fish, sometimes it honestly easier to say "I'm vegetarian", rather than list everything you can't / won't eat, and go into the explanations. In my case for example, it stems from a medical issue 20+ years ago, and has nothing to do with the morality of it (I feed the rest of my family meat), but do I really want everyone knowing that!

Then say "I'm a non-meat eater". It's more accurate and it will make life easier for genuine vegetarians/vegans.

ceebeeby

"Then say I'm a non-meat eater"

Ha-ha, you reckon that will work ... when even if you say you're vegetarian you're offered fish and chicken to quote from above.

And as for being a pescatarian, I think if I mentioned that out loud, I'd be offered anti-biotics!

There's greater things to get my knickers in a twist over tbh.

savingforoz

Why doesn't that attitude surprise me....:rolleyes:

VfM4meplse

Well no-one has yet mentioned the well-meaning meat eaters who help themselves to the veggie fodder "to see what it is like" .... leaving the veges with nowt. Selfish what-nots.

ceebeeby

savingforoz wrote: »

Why doesn't that attitude surprise me....:rolleyes:

... or that :rolleyes:

candygirl

Woo hoo I got a yellow stickered nut roast in Morrisons today for £1 with sauce too:p

Justamum

ceebeeby wrote: »

"Then say I'm a non-meat eater"

Ha-ha, you reckon that will work ... when even if you say you're vegetarian you're offered fish and chicken to quote from above.

And as for being a pescatarian, I think if I mentioned that out loud, I'd be offered anti-biotics!

There's greater things to get my knickers in a twist over tbh.

But the reason vegetarians are offered fish is because of the people who say "I'm a vegetarian - but I eat fish and/or chicken" who muddy the waters for those who actually ARE vegetarian. My brother was a "fish eating vegetarian" years ago, while I was a real vegetarian, but not vegan. However, if we went out to dinner as a family my dad would ask for a vegetarian (for bro) and a vegan dinner for me (even though at the time I wasn't vegan - but have been for a few years now ). It used to annoy the h*ll out of me. Also as someone else said, the meat-eaters eating all the veggie food and leaving a bread roll for the veggies - irritates me to death too :rolleyes:

My parents used to run a hotel and had someone staying who was vegetarian - until it came to breakfast, and asked for the "gravy" on his vegetarian brekkie. It turned out he wanted the fat the bacon had been fried in to be poured all over his food :rolleyes:

vixtress

dharm999 wrote: »

We had mushroom wellington, a mix of chestnut and ordinary mushrooms, cashews and almonds with tarragon in puff pastry. Its a Cranks recipe that we have done for a few years now and very nice it is too! We had this with roast potatoes, brussels, carrots, broccoli, and home made onion gravy. We were so stuffed that we couldnt even eat our Xmas pudding!

that sounds divine, think i will be trying that, could i have the recipe please. thanks

Cat_Addict

Oh god I remember this so well from when I was a vegetarian years ago. People thinking I ate fish and chicken, someone thinking I still could have steak since it had no face - I used as a rule of thumb to say to people "if it has a face I don't eat it" to help them figure things out but clearly it didn't help.

Then when I ate beef crisps flavoured entirely artificially and veggie sausage rolls for lunch I was labelled as a hyprocrite that "promoted" meat eating. It was a losing battle. I really feel for veggies and applaud the veggie Christmas Dinner - and Lynda McCartney's sausages were amazing!!