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^ True.
Hummus with cheese just sounds awful. I bought some canned black-eye peas a while back and didn't realize until I opened a can that it had bacon in it. Gross. Just absolutely vile. Luckily I had some dried peas that I quick soaked and ate later that evening. I've also accidentally overlooked vitamin D and milk in some cereals, and just let my roommates or bandmates eat it. I would really just feel gross if I ate stuff that I knew wasn't vegan.
Just last month i went to a local health food store and i bought chicken nuggets. On the cover it says no casein, no milk, no eggs and no nuts but when i looked at the ingredients it has skinless chicken breast with rib meat. It's been in the refrigerator for 2 months and i think i should let my brothers eat it instead.
^Yeah, classic case of looking for the usual ingredients like milk, eggs etc and missing something like that, I've done it. I bought some noodles once that I later realised had "chicken powder" in them, I just went back to the store and returned them.
If you can't return items then yeah give them to someone else to eat, no point wasting it really.
This happened to my the first couple months I went vegan, buying something I knew was vegan but then the ingredients had changed. My boyfriend is the worst offender of not checking labels. He has bought all sorts of food with either animal bits in it to animal fats to milk. It's funny because when we go shopping together I always read the label, even if its something I buy every week and he's always like "it's vegan!!!" and gets annoyed while I read it. But I just like to be careful and he should be too! One time he ate prawn crackers thinking they weren't made out of prawn!!!
I've started getting firm now, such as one time he ate a vegetable pastie and it actually had chicken in it. I got really angry telling him that he's not vegetarian if he eats meat, and that most pastry has animal fat or something in it!! He just doesn't want it to go to waste, but I really think is he's just so hungry at the time that he's just like "f*** it". Although I think he's getting better now, and learned his lesson after that pastie which made his tummy hurt for two days.
Recently I bought a pair of socks off of ebay which stated they were cotton/polyester blend, but when they arrived they were actually 80% lambswool!! Nobody I know wants them so I'm just keeping them as I need them also. I don't want to return them as I will have to pay for the return shipping, and that's just a waste in my opinion, also they are from Hong Kong, and when I previously asked the seller a question about them, they didn't know English very well and got quite confused. So I don't want to cause more confusion by asking for a refund. I will be telling them of their description mistake though.
I usually just give it to a friend. They're always more than happy to get free food.
I would give it to my boyfriend. He'll eat anything. :)
The same thing happened to me today, but I just gave it to my other half and he said he would eat it :)
I bought some aloe vera orange drink in Slovenia yesterday. I have never seen this drink before, but I like other aloe vera drinks. I drank half a bottle and then read the label. It contained honey. I felt sick and gave the rest to my friend. I should have read the label!
Tricksy!!!! I found these cute little French drinks in the supermarket and was just at the checkout before I had a gander at them and they had honey in them! I was so confused because it was like strawberry flavoured fizzy water, wouldn't honey be kinda pointless!? I once was at a restaurant and there was honey in the sweet chilli sauce (more pointless honey!!) :mad: But I did have curly fries so not having sauce was made all okay.
Isn't honey too expensive, compared to sugar, to be put into everything?
This has happened twice to me recently. We bought lemon lime and bitters that turned out to have cochineal in it (it was listed as a number), and we bought the wrong brand of rice crackers by mistake (sardine extract as a number). They're just sitting in the fridge and cupboard - my SO will get aroud to tem eventually!
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Me and my boyfriend have had the exact same thing and even called it fish bread ourselves! :eek: We now always tell people when they are buying fish bread! Seems to turn everybody off of it!
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would any hard candy do?
That's a hard one! Whenever I get a sore throat/cold, I always make crazy tea concoctions. I usually think ginger and lemon works for me, but maybe put star anise in it too. If you just type a search into google you'll probably find heaps of suggestions on teas great for sore throats. I'm pretty sure someone told me that if you drink a lot of hot drinks it keeps bad bacteria away (or something along those lines :confused:). Also with a sore throat, hot teas can be hard to drink, but just try and think of it as a medecine and not a beverage. I hope that might help, get better!
EDIT: I just found this website!
http://www.health911.com/remedies/rem_soret.htm
I had the dilemma yesturday that my husband had bought food on the way home from work and carefully chosen some meat-free burgers for me, but forgot to check the ingredients, and it was only once he'd got home I checked and they had egg powder in them : ( I couldn't eat them but felt really bad as he was so pleased he'd specially chosen them.
Also recently my mum sent me a beautiful skirt which turned out to be made of silk, I didn't know what to say so made the mistake of just saying it was lovely whilst not intending to wear it-she then sent me another one in a different colour! She lives in another country and we don't have a lot of contact so any gifts have sentimental value and I don't think I could give them away, but I can't face wearing them either, so they just make me feel bad everytime I see them in the wardrobe!
If it's an accident because of desperation ("Holy crap, I need to eat NOW"), I might just suck it up and eat it, but note it for next time that it's not safe.
Usually if I buy something non-vegan accidentally, I pass it on to a family member or friend at work. I might eat it if I've already opened the package, but I will note next time that it's not safe to eat.
I'm trying to move towards 'whole-foods' now, to do away with those pesty additives and non-vegan stuff. I'm also trying to clear out my bath and beauty products to make way for new vegan-friendly stuff.
If I bought something non-vegan, I would try to return it. If they didn't accept it, I guess I would give it away, or my partner might eat it (he's also vegan, but he would eat something if it was going to go to waste anyway).
I check all labels as well, on everything. I was eyeing these dill sunflower seeds awhile ago, and was scanning the ingredients list: sure enough, modified milk ingredients! Isn't that crazy? :mad:
I relax my standards a LITTLE when I'm at restaurants or potlucks, etc. For instance, at a potluck/BBQ recently, the hostess had made a strawberry spinach salad with me in mind, which I found out had Worcestershire sauce in the dressing. I didn't say anything and ate it anyway, and of course at that miniscule amount it wasn't detectable by taste. I also later found out that the rhubarb punch someone brought in had gelatin in it - it never occurred to me that there would be gelatin in punch! :eek:
I don't worry about stuff like that too much. I did more good at that potluck than bad: I got people to try tofu and soy bacon in mini sandwiches I made, which they liked, and soy cheesecake made with Tofutti (which was a bit hit; shared the recipe and had a couple of people telling me they were making it this weekend, in fact!).
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Hovis are great as they put on their breads "suitable for vegetarians and vegans". However, I'm not sure if they're owned by a big bad company or anything. [/QUOTE] vegan ben says Sainsburys and co op also label bread vegan
I am shocked by part time vegans.If i found out something non vegan i wouldnt eat it.If i ate it knowing it not vegan then that would mean im not a vegan.For gods sake your either vegan or your not.If i brought something non vegan by mistake and it never happens because im extremely carefull i would give it away or bin it or feed foxes etc.If in a restaurant i wouldnt eat something non vegan just to save wasteing it.
If I notice it the same day and the package is still unopened, I will take it back to the grocery store. Usually I will say, "Oh, I picked up the wrong flavour!" and they really don't give a sh*t. If I'm too lazy to go back or if it's been a few days or if I opened it, I just give it away.
Things get a little hairier if I'm at a restaurant and if I'm with critical non-veg friends. :/
I usually give it to my fiance to eat. He doesn't mind, though he does seem to feel bad that I was trying and failed at something.
Edit: I wouldn't consume said product, though. Just the thought seems rather gross to me now.
I've actually picked up a sorbet, found that it had milk in it after the fact (while I was in the car)...brought it back in the store, and said, "can I exchange this? I thought it didn't have any milk in it!" They thought that I was weird, but they didn't have any problem with me exchanging it for some nice soda. :)
On VF, we've all signed in confirming that we're vegan. The problem is that we all may have differing interpretations of what exactly makes us vegan. If we look at the implications of buying a tin of chicken meat:
I could buy it for myself and eat it.
I could buy it for my elderly mum to eat (she's infirm so can't get out to buy it herself).
I could buy it for my cat to eat.
Although we'd all probably agree on the first being a non-vegan action, I can imagine that there could be varying views on the other two.
lv:)
This doesn't happen often. I'd return it, unless the distance was overwhelming. Which it typically isn't.
Yeah...I think it had whey in it or something. I was like, "wtf?" lol
There is often egg in posh sorbet too.
I accidentally drank non-vegan cider yesterday (it had gelitine in =X) but I'm not getting my panties in a bunch over it. It didn't say anything anywhere about being veggie or not so I risked it. I just won't have it next time, simple. I don't see the point in freaking out over it, it's a mistake. It happens. I don't want to be one of THOSE vegans that drive people nuts by being uptight. We live in a very non-vegan world, you have to pick your battles.
Who would expect gelatin to be in cider??? craziness...