Vegan food for celebrations

[Vegmom]

Yeah, I couldn't stand all the "Happy Turkey Day" comments. Ummm...hello...I'm vegan! Everyone knows it. It's totally disrespectful to the Turkey that had it's life taken away too. :(
On my Myspace and Facebook pages I told everyone "Happy Tofurkey Day!" when they'd say that. :P

[Quantum Mechanic]

I've recently been able to distinguish between the words TurDuckEn and Tofurkey, which sounded the same to me for a number of years to me. Thank goodness no one offered me the former! :eek:

[clare155]

they also have the tinned pumpkin at whole foods market, but for 30p more. waitrose has been the only place so far where i found tinned pumpkin - that actually happened by accident.

I went into waitrose yesterday and they didnt have it :mad: Maybe its only at their large branches? I will go to the one in Bromley this week and check it out :cool:

[Chritar]

^ turducken?

[Elahiya]

that´s odd. they usually have it at the tinned fruit shelf and in those branches to which I´ve been to. those were about the same size.

[Enchantress]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turducken

[Lifeonmars]

:hmm::eek:That is absolutely foul!

[Chritar]

wow...that is pretty nasty, 'lets just cram all these animals in there for the hell of it' i wonder how anyone came up with that idea...

[Mahk]

:hmm::eek:That is absolutely foul!

100% fowl actually. [Sorry, bad joke.:o]

[horselesspaul]

com is a porn site! What a mistake a school child could easily make.:eek:]


"May they live the rest of their lives in blissful gobbling.

An easy mistake to make given this language.


By heck that Palin woman is thick. She actually says nothing of note even when she's trying to be informal.

[terem]

Did anyone happen to catch Dirty Jobs on the Discovery channel this past Thanksgiving?
Generally when I watch this show it's funny watching Mike Rowe do some of these jobs, and they generally don't involve animals, or the ones I've seen anyway..
But I turned on the Discovery channel at my brother's house this Thanksgiving only to see blatant animal cruelty. I was shocked, really, that Mike Rowe found this amusing, not to mention the idiot guys with him whose job it actually was.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhGGvcotHCk

I couldn't believe that they actually played this episode, and why anyone, after watching it, would still eat Turkeys and their eggs. They're essentially raping these Turkeys. :confused:

[Mahk]

Raping them, or "forced artificial insemination" I guess they'd probably call it, is the only way to perpetuate the commercial species. Through breeding them to give them as large a breast (breast meat) as possible, they have been made so top heavy that they are unable to copulate naturally.:(

[terem]

I think they mentioned that in the episode :(
It was really discouraging to see that, like in the Palin video, as if it's completely normal and okay, ignorant of their suffering.

[karmafunk]

I am dining with the carnivorous family this Christmas and being new to Veganism I wondered how I could incorporate my diet with theirs without too much hassle.

I can obviously eat most of the veg but not the potatoes as they will be roasted with their meat.

I have found a Vegan Christmas pudding so I can have cake.

Any ideas?

[Ms_Derious]

Ask them to roast a few potatoes away from the meat... I LOVE roast tatties and would miss them a lot!

Find a good recipe for Chestnut Stuffing... it makes a really nice nutloaf and the others can have it as a side dish.

Offer to make a festive soup. Watercress is nice because of the green.

Its worth looking in some festive cookbooks and seeing what you can veganise... people will feel happier and more comfortable if they don't feel you are 'missing out'

[Buddha Belly]

I have offered to make a soup starter for Helen's mum for xmas day. Make the potatos and your main before so no one can complain about having to make any more effort than heating someting up for you. The nutroast idea is good as it can be shared by others and they can see you eat nice tasting food.

[helen105281]

Mum hasn't forgotten either BB, she mentioned it tonight.

[cedarblue]

also if you can find some vegan sausages, fry them up a bit first (& cut them smaller if you like) then wrap some vegan rashers round them and stick in oven for 10 mins. yum yum

[Cherry]

Provided the carnivorous family are thoughtful and know what vegans can eat, it should be fine. As MsDerious says, they can roast some potatoes away from the meat for you, and should be able to make everything apart from the meat itself vegan-friendly. Then you can have your extra nut roast/vegan turkey/sausages etc to go along with it.

You could make/take some mince pies or something to share, and I'd take some vegan cream/custard with you as well so they don't all say 'Oh, poor you, not being able to have anything on your pudding!'.

I'm in a similar situation, except that my mum and I are doing the Christmas dinner vegan, and the carnivores have to bring their own non-vegan items! I can't wait to have a fully vegan Christmas. Hopefully next year will be.

[derwenna]

You could speak to whoever will be cooking and work out which things will be vegan or they'd be willing to make vegan (e.g. vegetables, potatoes, gravy) and offer to bring whatever else won't be vegan. Roasting a few potatoes in oil instead of with the meat shouldn't be a major hassle for them though. It may be that they don't mind cooking a vegan main dish for you, some people would rather do that than think they weren't providing properly for all their guests, but at least if you offer then they've got the choice and you're showing that you're trying to help them.

You could offer to bring a vegan main dish to share - omnis often like to try some of the vegan food as an extra side dish, plus it's nicer socially if you can share food with everyone else rather than having a whole separate plate of food. You can also bring stuff like gravy granules and stuffing mix if you want those. I agree with making sure you've got everything that the omnis will have (e.g. vegan cream/ice cream, gravy) so no-one thinks you're 'being deprived' or 'missing out'!

I'd say the main thing that omnis get bothered/panicky about is not the fact of 'having' to cook something that the vegan guest(s) can eat, but when they're not sure what counts as being suitable for vegans and how to make sure the food will be acceptable to you. If you can have a word with whoever's doing the cooking and make sure they know how to make sure your food is vegan, and show that you're willing to try and make things easier for them by bringing some of the food yourself - or if they seem willing to cook for you, lend them some recipes or suggest some recipe websites they could look at - then you've done enough so that you can't be considered "difficult".

[bellybuddha]

As title suggests. I think we are going to go down the chestnut roast route with all the yummy trimmings. Think I may even make vegan kilted sausages.
That's pigs in blankets if you're not Scottish. Heck, it's crimbo and I intend to eat, eat,eat! Anyone have a great chestnut roast recipe?

[Verencemos]

I'm a bit stuck. Made nut roast wellington last year and it was a bit fatty, even by my standards. Normally have nut roast with loads of veggies. This is my son's first year as a vegetarian, and so I want to make something extra lovely. We just had a test drive of veggie deli turkey roast, with wild rice and cranberry stuffing. It was so gross, only my omnivorous husband, who will eat anything, could actually swallow it.

Might go with that old faithful, nut roast, and chuck a couple of chestnuts in for a festive feel.

Can you tell I can't really be bothered?

[vegcurry]

^ You can still buy the turkey roast without the gawd awful stuffing.

[helen105281]

We've got the celebration roast as are going to my parents, my pescetarian sister is having it too which is good.

[Shivles]

Me and my boyfriend are going to his sisters for dinner this year, I'm just going to ask her to roast some potatoes seperatly for me, not have turkey, make my own gravy if hers isn't ok for me (but my b/f said in thier family they use the juice from the veg instead of the meat anyway) and I'm going to make vegan mince pies to take with us, so they can see I can still have traditional christmas food without animal products :) hopefully they will be understanding, my b/f has been great so far so i don't think they will be wierd with me but I do think I'll be quizzed a bit. Better read up and get my aruments straight before hand lol

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