How many vegans on board?

savvy

sleepymy wrote: »

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.

Yeah I used to help with our lambing (we kept rare breed sheep) and with the next farm up, they're soooooooooo cute!!

Intensive factory farming scares me, I swear to god our bodies are paying for it and will continue for years to come!

dolly_day_dream

Complaints about a vegan thread in a Money Saving Board? Doesn't that poster realise that a vegan diet is one of the cheapest ways of healthily feeding yourself? My food bill is a fraction of my omnivore son's. We should be applauded for spreading such a money saving concept:D

oldMcDonald

savvy wrote: »

I must admit I'm struggling to find all these vegan cheeses (although I'm not vegan my food intolerances border on it, and so find this thread a LIFELINE!!) you guys are talking about, I can't stand the Cheezly cheddar, have bought it twice and both times didn't get on with it :rolleyes: And haven't been able to track down the mozzarella or this supermelting stuff either

Sorry if this has already been said, not been online for ages and catching up with loads of threads that I've subscribed to and so netiquete is going out of the window

You can either buy direct from Redwood (but from memory I think the postal they charge is a bit of an ouch!), or you can contact them to find out where the nearest place to you that they supply is (that looks like horrific grammar but I can't be bothered to change it - sorry!)

http://www.redwoodfoods.co.uk

oldMcDonald

Gingham Ribbon - just me being nosey, but are you vegan? I thought you were veggie but am all confused now (and to tell the truth, it sure don't take much to confuse me)

Love the new piccie BTW. I've just been given season one and two of Little House On The Prarie by a friend and DD10 and I have spent most of the weekend having 'Girlie Club' - this means us chucking the boys and DH out of the room and us sitting there with popcorn and watching Little House one episode after another!

Gosh, don't I waffle on about boring stuff?

Gingham_Ribbon

No, I'm not interested in becoming vegan but because I'm a veggie I naturally cook a lot of vegan meals.

O was vegan for a few months once but a friend brought me some chocolates back from Belgium and I was a gonner! (I did it to try to lose weight so the chocs were a bad idea on 2 counts!)

frogga

This thread is GREAT . Thanks to those who started it. Been veggie for 25 years since I was at primary school. Now 100% vegan! Feel great for making the leap x:T

oldMcDonald

frogga wrote: »

This thread is GREAT . Thanks to those who started it. Been veggie for 25 years since I was at primary school. Now 100% vegan! Feel great for making the leap x:T

Frogga...'making the leap'

Hee-hee!!

No offence, but I now picture you as a big green frog leaping off a lilypad and always will from now on whenever I see your name come up!

Love the avator btw

oldMcDonald

Gingham_Ribbon wrote: »

O was vegan for a few months once but a friend brought me some chocolates back from Belgium and I was a gonner! (I did it to try to lose weight so the chocs were a bad idea on 2 counts!)

Ah, Belgium chocolate, I believe, is responsible for many failed diets

Hope you didn't mind my asking, and thanks for starting the other thread

Badger_Lady

I was a vegan for 8 years - I fell down when I spent some time in Greece and discovered feta cheese and greek yoghurt :-(

Those are still the only dairy products I eat, though - I've been a very strict veggie since I was 4 years old and learned what meat was!

My Aunt bought me a very good recipe book "Vegan Cooking for One", which sets out meal plans and shopping lists for a whole year - I did actually follow it for about 6 months because it helped me discover new meal ideas economically (such as savoury semolina???)... but then got bored of it again :-) And it does sometimes include ingredients like "vegan cheese", which makes a bit of a mockery.

sleepymy

Welcome frogga & badger lady :wave:

Does anyone know how long tinned brazed tofu lasts once opened?

We opened one on Saturday and forgot about it. I was thinking of trying to make some sort of fishless pie with it tomorrow. I haven't used it for cooking yet, just raw in salads.