Save money eating plant-based this Veganuary with up to 50% off pizza, burgers & more 11 January 2022 at 5:13PM in Food shopping & groceries 20 replies 1.4K views

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MSE Rhiannon has a new blog out. In her own words:

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wild666

I wouldn't eat vegan plant based products if you paid me. Bald Foodie Guy sampled some on his You Tube page and he spat them out.

MSE_Rhiannon

wild666 said:

I wouldn't eat vegan plant based products if you paid me. Bald Foodie Guy sampled some on his You Tube page and he spat them out.

It looks like you're commenting on my blog without reading it, it would mean a lot to me if you could you read the blog and base your thoughts off what I've written as a vegan of over 15 years, rather than the thoughts of a random YouTuber who has never cooked with vegan products before. Thank you

arnoldy

Much of this vegan/vegetarian stuff is highly processed, calorific, "test tube" food - and more importantly quite unappetizing. Can only eat it in small quantities, and makes me feel sick usually.

Clowance

I have a daughter who is vegetarian (not quite vegan, she still eats cheese) and find that the processed foods - particularly some quorn products and richmond meat free sausages and beyond meat burgers - make it a lot easier to cook meals for the whole family rather than having to cook 2 dishes every day.

wild666

MSE_Rhiannon said:

wild666 said:

I wouldn't eat vegan plant based products if you paid me. Bald Foodie Guy sampled some on his You Tube page and he spat them out.

It looks like you're commenting on my blog without reading it, it would mean a lot to me if you could you read the blog and base your thoughts off what I've written as a vegan of over 15 years, rather than the thoughts of a random YouTuber who has never cooked with vegan products before. Thank you

I have tried vegan stuff and wanted to bin the stuff after the first bite the only item I found that I would eat, grudgingly, are Linda McCartney's sausages. 

Mnoee

wild666 said:

MSE_Rhiannon said:

wild666 said:

I wouldn't eat vegan plant based products if you paid me. Bald Foodie Guy sampled some on his You Tube page and he spat them out.

It looks like you're commenting on my blog without reading it, it would mean a lot to me if you could you read the blog and base your thoughts off what I've written as a vegan of over 15 years, rather than the thoughts of a random YouTuber who has never cooked with vegan products before. Thank you

I have tried vegan stuff and wanted to bin the stuff after the first bite the only item I found that I would eat, grudgingly, are Linda McCartney's sausages. 

So you don't like oreos, flora, chips and beans, bombay bad boy pot noodles, carrots, apples, bbq pringles...

You must have a very strange diet with absolutely nothing vegan in it. 

Cornucopia

There are so many different Vegan and Vegetarian products available these days that I find it difficult to believe that anyone could justifiably find them all unpalatable.  

I definitely want to try the McPlant before it goes.

Bald Foodie Guy has finally found a vegan product that he likes - the Aldi "No Chicken" burgers.

Spies

Why are meat eaters so quick to jump on these threads and put everyone down? You do what you do and we'll do our thing.

Since giving up meat last year and using quorn products and the like, I've not missed meat at all. Its actually easier to cook with some products like meat free mince and you don't have to mess around frying it off and draining off the nasty fat. 

Coffeekup

Spies said:

Why are meat eaters so quick to jump on these threads and put everyone down? You do what you do and we'll do our thing.

Since giving up meat last year and using quorn products and the like, I've not missed meat at all. Its actually easier to cook with some products like meat free mince and you don't have to mess around frying it off and draining off the nasty fat. 

I suppose majority are meat eaters, I eat very little meat in the last 8-10 years when I do it's bacon and 2-3 slices in a recipe mainly for the salty smoky flavour.

My take on it is vegan is promoted as healthy, better for the planet and it's made from plants (so less animal farts in the atmosphere). But my career in food has taught me different.

Healthy
Anything man made that's been through a process is usually bad for you in some way form or other, the ingredients for example are made from concentrated whatever, which has been the a process to be concentrated. In a nutshell another western diet that'll start rearing health issues in 30 year's time.

Better for the planet

I personally don't see how it's better for the environment, it's been through a process in a factory where X amount of people turn up for work in their cars, make a plant based product on a conveyor line by people handling your potential food wearing single use plastic or latex gloves. Spooned into plastic containers, sealed with a plastic lid then have cardboard type plastic encased over it showing you a picture of the product with the cooking instructions + none of which are recyclable, then driven across the country by at least 2 HGV's before it hits the shelf and you buy (if not it'll get heavily reduced and moved on to a food bank)...... Personally I'm not sure I believe it is better for the planet, or for you for that matter.

Want to eat plants.... eat vegetables, fruits nuts and other products that grow naturally.

Want to eat healthy... have the above with fish and meat that have been through little to no processing as possible.

Want to be better for the planet... Eat less meat (less farts) and stop buying processed food in crappy packagings.

As for other companies jumping on board because they fit the criteria of "vegan" good for you... Although you probably already was vegen we just hadn't created a term for it yet.
Whilst I'm ranting dont get me starting on super foods. All a form of misdirection.

Mnoee

I mean, Coffeekup is absolutely correct, the term vegan has only been around since 1944. I remember back in 1943 when you could buy a simple falafel burger without it having 'vegan' all over the packaging. Bandwagon jumpers, the lot of them.