can I pick your brains?

JIL

What kind of sausages are you doing for the others? if its hot dogs I would recommend tivall. If its ordinary sausages then I would just buy a veggie shop brand from the freezer section.

I love hot dog sausages and they are my Saturday lunch treat with onions and tomato sauce. I have tried all the veggie ones.

My favourite is the tivall ones, available in Waitrose and health food shops. They just need boiling for 5 mins. Im another who doesnt like the quorn ones.


If i were her the fact you have made an effort will really please her and she wont feel left out. Make sure you cook them all because everyone will want to taste them to see if they can tell the difference.

meritaten

she doesn't really go for 'meat subsitutes' - so your replies have been really helpful! Thanks! I don't have a Watrose near me but have a Tresco! I do the American type 'hotdogs'. I don't think she will mind if hers are a little different - and the rest of the family I can guarantee will scoff them anyway!

I will see if I can get the Tivall ones - as they sound closer to the trad American 'hotdogs'.

I haven't asked her as I didn't want her to feel 'different' - would just put plates of hotdogs and veggie ones out and direct her to the veggie ones!

MrsAtobe

How about some Glamorgan sausages?

cte1111

Tesco's meat free hot dogs are pretty good. They're in green bags in the frozen section. They can also be microwaved, which is handy.

VfM4meplse

Before you invest in any quorn-based products, it would be worth asking if she has tried it before.

It makes me violently sick until every last molecule is ejected, and it seems that is affects about 10% of the population. You might be better off making a veggie chilli to serve with jackets (soya mince optional).

MoradoJess

I think the best vegetarian sausages are the Tesco's own meat free lincolnshire sausages, they have a really nice texture whereas I've found other brands quite mushy almost. Even my meat eating flatmates like them.

I think you're right about sticking to the hotdog idea, it would be a shame for her to not get to do the tradition this year.

Fruball

I am no longer vegetarian but I still love Tivall hot dogs and buy those instead of meat ones. Tesc0 own ones are good too. If you served them up to all your meat eaters, I bet nobody would know they weren't meat

mumto2monkeys_2

Every year we have the meat free vegetarian hot dogs from Tesco. All of us, the vegetarians and meat eaters. They take about 3 minutes to cook in a pan from frozen.

Justamum

Witless wrote: »

Use a different brand of ordinary sausages just for her. Tell her it's Quorn and according to their adverts - you can't tell the difference!:)

You mean give her meat and tell her it's vegetarian? I'd be livid if someone did that to me.

meritaten wrote: »

I will see if I can get the Tivall ones - as they sound closer to the trad American 'hotdogs'.

Frys do hotdogs (Holland and Barrett sell them). I'm not keen on them, but that could be because they taste too similar to real hot dogs (according to friends of my daughter) and I never liked hot dogs when I did eat meat.

Alchemilla

Cauldron sausages are not cheap but fab. Veggie kebabs? Baked potato is a good idea. I imagine you will have a few salad type things as well? Personally i find the linda mccartney ones quite horrid. I know someone who has that violent reaction to quornso def worth being careful.