How many vegans on board?

Gingham_Ribbon

Makes note to self:

ask before trying to help!

sleepymy

lol it's no bad GR. It should work well in the OS board. I'd have put one there meself but as explained earlier thought that people would get snippity with too many vegan threads about. My plan obviously didn't work so I'm happy to give yours a go

Gingham_Ribbon

I think it's worked, sleepymy. This is a great thread. And the other one is a recipe thread so no 'conversation' - just recipes. (Unlike the more relaxed meal planners.)

sleepymy

Thanks GR, having one with no chat would be really handy when we fancy sommat different for tea. I haven't been cooking much at all over the summer but hubby's going to be cooking for a hostel group at the end of the month so some handy new recipes would be useful. I was planning on doing the free from baking (lots of allergy people in the group) but don't think I'm up to it atm. Hubby is cooking the veggie stuff and a couple of our other friends will be cooking the 'rest'

It's a hostel in the Welsh mountains and I can't wait to go and meet up with some of the loveliest people I know again . Two weeks without technology, no tvs, radios or computers... just good food, fine company and lots of photography.. bliss :cool:

Gingham_Ribbon

Sounds great. I discovered recently that pasta is VERY difficult to cook for large numbers of people so if you're doing pasta make sure you have HUGE pans and don't put too much pasta in them or it'll go sticky.

savvy

Gingham_Ribbon wrote: »

I think it's worked, sleepymy. This is a great thread.

It has sleepymy, it's been great for me personally with the food intolerance thing, and I agree with why you did it, jesus it's bad enough being vegetarian but vegans get flamed even more with small minded comments :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Unfortunately, neither vegans nor vegetarians can shake off the stereotypes from the hippy 60-70's, which is really petty as things move on and adapt. I for one am mainly vegetarian due to a weird !!! phobia with raw meat, and then an intolerance to some meats, worries about health aspects and the environment, and then about welfare of animals. So I'm not a 'political' type of vegetarian but get labelled and flamed for being one :rolleyes::rolleyes:

savvy

sleepymy wrote: »

Thanks GR, having one with no chat would be really handy when we fancy sommat different for tea. I haven't been cooking much at all over the summer but hubby's going to be cooking for a hostel group at the end of the month so some handy new recipes would be useful. I was planning on doing the free from baking (lots of allergy people in the group) but don't think I'm up to it atm. Hubby is cooking the veggie stuff and a couple of our other friends will be cooking the 'rest'

It's a hostel in the Welsh mountains and I can't wait to go and meet up with some of the loveliest people I know again . Two weeks without technology, no tvs, radios or computers... just good food, fine company and lots of photography.. bliss :cool:

We did have a wheat free thread over there, I think Halloween Queen made it some time ago.

sleepymy

Thanks savvy, I've checked out some of the wheat free threads, only problem is most use yeast and eggs to get a good bread. I'm yeast, wheat and oat intolerant and obviously don't use eggs. I know I'm a bit of a nightmare I turned vegan after I knew I had these intolerances, shows how committed I am though lol

P.S. raw meat turns me too, I went veggie at 12/13 because I grew up on a farm and couldn't reconcile my love for the animals I was helping rear with the reason we were rearing them.

savvy

sleepymy wrote: »

P.S. raw meat turns me too, I went veggie at 12/13 because I grew up on a farm and couldn't reconcile my love for the animals I was helping rear with the reason we were rearing them.

OMG so did I, well a small holding and then a dairy farm and sheep farm as neighbours!! I used to work on the sheep farm, and wasn't always happy with what happened there, our animals were very well looked after though. They all had names and we used to play football with the steers Aww and I used to hand rear them, course not knowing that they shouldn't really be taken away from their mothers at such a young age!! :rolleyes:

sleepymy

I've met quite a few veggies & vegans who are so because of growing up on farms. Ours was a small farm, a few cattle and my mum raised cash by breeding pigs, I used to help her birth them and the cattle. Bringing them into the world was a wonderful experience, think that's what made me realise I couldn't be accountable for taking them out of it. Ours were well looked after until the end too. Thankfully factory farming hasn't really caught on in NI. I was stunned driving though England in May to see the pig farms, I've never seen anything like it. There were hundreds of them to a field, I found it overwhelming really.