I thought milk in sorbet made it sherbet.
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I thought milk in sorbet made it sherbet.
Hmm, I'm not too familiar with sherbert Tigerlily as the term isn't used much here I don't think (not in connection with frozen desserts anyway). I have looked at some websites that seem to agree that the inclusion of milk would make a sorbet into a sherbert, but then some also think that the inclusion of eggs would result in a sherbert. This attempts to untangle the differences in national terminology http://ezinearticles.com/?Whats-the-...et?&id=4428906 I'm confused now!
The good thing is that a lot of commercial products called "sorbet" here seem to be vegan - think people stopped using egg whites because of the salmonella risk.
Exactly! Very annoying as it was very yummy. My boyfriend's really dissapointed as he's been veggie for a while and doing really well, but he's happier now he's realised we can make it ourselves! It was just cider with fruit in it, so it tasted like cider and ribena lol. Easy to ask for ourselves when we go out!
I bought a frozen apple crumble the other day ( i know it's ridiculously easy to make one but i was being lazy) got it home & my fella realised it had milk in it- after some umm-ing & ahh-ing i ate it, i felt kinda guilty, but we're too poor at the mo to just leave it to waste in the freezer, i suppose i could've given it to someone else but i probably would've forgotten about it. I knew that it wasn't something that was gonna tempt me back into milk & egg consumption. I think at the end of the day, although we may feel guilty about eating something like that we are doing what we can to help the animals, but that doesn't mean we're perfect (although of couse we'd like to be), there are are gonna be mistakes along the way whether we know about them or not.
If I realize there's dairy in a product I won't knowingly consume that product, partly because I believe that wouldn't make me a vegan and partly because the idea of dairy actually makes me feel physically sick now (it didn't to start with ). If I eat a product and find out later that it contained some sort of milk or egg trace, I won't beat myself up about it as we all make mistakes from time to time. I'm always very scruptulous with my shopping so it would be very rare that I end up buying something that contained dairy. The only time this might occur, as it did so today, is if a family member/friend buys me something that's not vegan. My mum thought she was being nice when she bought me a packet of iced buns from sainsburys but she had confused herself with a different supermarket chain. I simply told her, she realized her mistake and gave them to other members of her family.
Tofu Monkey - everyday at work people bring stuff in for us office staff to eat and absolutely none of it I can eat so I give it to other people in my office. To be honest it doesn't bother me that much because if I ate donuts everyday like they do, then I'd be seriously large...like them! :p
I recently discovered New York Bagels are now vegan, I was so happy. But I bought some Jamaica Bun and found it to not be vegan... it's like torture, as I love it, and it's still in my kitchen. My kids are working their way through it though!! If I do buy anything by mistake, I don't eat it - I have a shelf at the top of my cupboard, once amonth I get a bag and take anything there to the homeless shelter. Less and less each month, so I have to stop at the Asian store on route to add some cans of chickpeas and tomatoes!
I nearly cried in the vegan shop near me yesterday. I haven't been in for ages, and was sick of finding that all chocolate seems to now have milk in it,so I called in for some munchies. It felt so good to know I didn't have to read a single packet... I could just buy what I wanted. I ended up with chocolate, chocolate beans, dried cranberries, spiced roasted chick peas and a tub of chocolate ice cream. It's been that long since I ate chocolate that I ate the beans and felt sick... so I have the chocolate and ice cream for tonight!! lol x
haha! That's one of the positive aspects of the vegan diet, in that it stops you pigging out on a lot on cakes and snacks that other people bring into work. In a couple of years time I'll be a qualified teacher and I'm just dreading the Christmas/summer holidays when all the children give me presents and the like. My friend says that despite making it known that she's a vegan both to the parents and the children through many devisive ways, she always gets boxes and boxes of Roses and Cadbury's Heroes, boxes of biscuits and other non-vegan goodies. She's given up trying! I'm not looking forward to the arkwardness of having to say thank you and accepting these gifts and then having to find new homes for them, after all, the children are only trying to be nice :p
^ funny :0)
i get an asda home delivery shop type thing sometimes and generally stick to the stuff i know. i'm not sure why cos i tend to mess it up repeatedly (86 red onions...17 kilograms of mushrooms..etc etc.) i have accidently bought stuff that had milk in..err..it's nearly always that pesky snuck-in milk.. i read labels of unknown stuff pretty intensively, still, but sometimes on their home delivery webshite the stuff i've bought has had milk in when it didn't say..chappatis..i'm talking chappatis. and some ciabatta once. WHY. i got a sinking feeling and threw them in the freezer. ever the procrastinating sort i am.
I give it my mom.
I agree with this point of view although I understand how mistakes can be made. I bought ready made pizza bases and on the way home wondered if a specific ingredient was vegan, on telling my bf that I would just have a pasta bake with homemade pizza sauce if they weren't vegan he got annoyed and said "you've paid for it now, that's ridiculous to just not eat it", however I wouldn't have been able to bring myself to eat my pizza knowing that it wasn't vegan... If it was unintenional, that's completely different.
i dont eat it. im the only vegan in my house, everyone else is a veggie, so when i accidentally bought flavoured cous cous and it had milk in it well the kids and teh rats shared it.
recently my husband 'treated me' to some fancy organis liquorice, sadly it was glazed with bees wax, (really is there any need?!!) it really was the thought that counted i was grateful he thought of me, and my workmate was grateful that i couldnt eat it, as she did! haha
I give them to my omni or vegetarian friends and family. I rarely buy anything non vegan though since I, like a lot of you I'm guessing, became a pro at reading ingredients and knowing what is what when it comes to labels.
In my opinion the worst is when someone buys you something out of the blue and you read the ingredients and it's not vegan. Kind of heartbreaking when it was just a really kind gesture, and you have to say that you won't use it.
I thought mentos were vegan and they aren't and I have eaten a few packets over the last few months :(
I actually did this too! Back when I was only vegetarian (before becoming vegan) I assumed that they were the same as prawn cocktail flavoured crisps and that it was only a flavouring, not actual prawn. I only realised my mistake then my mouth swelled up (I am allergic to prawn) and felt extremely silly!!
Accidental buys - we all make mistakes. We've all had that horrific experience of realising that something you just ate was in fact non-vegan, but I think the important thing to remember is that we all make mistakes. If it is indeed a genuine mistake then although I do feel bad (and usually a bit daft) but as long as I use it as a future lesson then I could forgive myself. However if I knowingly consumed something which I knew to be non-vegan (even if I'd just spent money on it) then there is no way I would feel able to still consider myself to be vegan, so I would either give it away to someone or throw it in the bin.
However on a somewhat similar issue I do still own a few non-food non-vegan products from my pregan days (shoes with a bit of leather on, some make up products) which I do still use until they wear out and I can replace them with with a vegan version so am phasing them out, and I'm sure that there are vegans out there who would tell me that this is wrong and that I shouldn't be calling myself a vegan, so it really is a grey issue I think.
Recently bought 2 x tins of Zanae brand rice wrapped in vine leaves but never noticed that there was beef in with the rice. Zanae also produce a similar product in an almost identical can which does not contain beef. Boo-bloody-hoo!
leedsveg
:eek: I didn't realise there was a meat version of the vine leaves - thanks for the warning.
This must be one of the oddest slip-ups so far... I have eczema on my hands and so I try to be careful what cleaning products I use. I bought some Ecover washing up liquid the other week, a great big bottle of it, and was idly reading the back when I happened to look down at the ingredients list. The washing up liquid that apparently cares about the environment and my skin contains...milk whey. Milk whey! In washing up liquid! WTF?!
I think there are 2 versions of the Ecover one, one with whey and one without. There was this http://www.ecover.com/gb/en/News/Details.htm?ID=147 so now I buy a washing-up liquid that they sell in Oxfam shops (Bio-D?) that is marked vegan. Not sure how it would be with your eczema though.
Thanks harpy, I'll have a look for that one. :)
It was buy one get one free on salsa at my local asian store-I picked two what I thought was normal hot tomato salsa up but when I got home I had picked up one that had pepperoni in it!! Pepperoni in salsa wtf?!
At least it wasn't that they got paid for it as such I guess . I gave it to my omni mother.
^ That's just silliness. You'd think that some things should be "safe" but it's never the case.
If it's a non-food item I do the same thing as with the things I owned before going vegan: use it til it falls apart & then replace it with a vegan option. If it's food, I give it to a friend or food-bank nearby... I can't eat it as 1) don't wanna and 2) even if I wanna I'm at the point that even small amounts of milk (most often sneak ingredient IME) makes me ill if I eat it accidentally.
My wife recently prepared some chinese dumplings for me that she had bought deep-frozen at an Asian shop. I diligently checked the german sticker stating the ingredients whether anything was non-vegan, and it read 'vegetarian dumplings, blah blah blah' - there was no mentioning any animal ingredients.
However, when I later peeled off the german ingredients sticker out of curiosity, below that was the English ingredients list that also stated 'chicken broth'. I was really irate about that one .. that the German importer put a german ingredients sticker on top of the english one with 'vegetarian dumpling' (which it did not say on the English list) and put it directly over the English ingredients list. Of course, labelling it 'Vegetarian' is not against the law (the term is not in any way protected, although there is a law suggestion from the Green Party to protect it, but omitting some of the ingredients most likely is...)
Best regards,
Andy
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If you buy something non-vegan, even by mistake, the Vegan Police will be notified immediately. You can expect to hear from them within three working days. ;)
I am new at being a vegan, so there is still so much I'm learning in regards to what to avoid.
Generally manufacturers don't make food for vegans, so go expecting the worst and you won't be disappointed...! The best piece of advice I can give is to never take anything for granted. Milk and honey get sneaked into bread, food colouring from insects into the oddest of foods. All you can do is do your best, and know that slip-ups have happened to the best of us. :)
Have a bit of a dilemma. Just got a care package from my mom in canada and it contains a big surprise: about 10 packages of Skittles. No idea why she packed them in, I've never eaten them, I've never even mentioned Skittles to her.
Of the friends that I have made here, only one couple aren't vegan or vegetarian and they wouldn't eat them, so can't give them away. I don't think Skittles are sold here in Germany but had a quick look on ebay.de and there are many listings selling them. I am thinking of selling all the packets as one lot with a buy it now that covers postage and packing and makes me no profit.
It saddens me that my mom went to alot of trouble and money to buy them and send them to me and then I just throw them away. Anyone got any other ideas what to do with them?
ps. giving them away to trick or treaters is not possible as it's not done here. Halloween that is.
Tofukitty - Are you sure they are not vegan? I heard a rumor that UK Skittles were vegan, albeit full of crap.
The UK ones may be vegan, but these canadian ones aren't: gelatin is one of the first few ingredients.
Hell knows why anyone eats these, the first ingredients are sugar and then corn syrup and then hydrogenated palm kernel oil. yeck. I think ebay it is.
^ They probably taste nice, that's why.
I guess I have gotten picky after so many years of reading ingredient lists. :rolleyes: