A Vegetarian Christmas

[Vagus]

Any vegitarians out there...what do you have for your Christmas dinner if you eat with family who aren’t?

[ummmm]

I used to be a pescatarian. I just didn't like meat but I'd happily eat gravy etc. I just had the veg. I was happy with that. I'm still not a big meat eater.

[maggiebee]

I used to make a brazil nut and red pepper bake for my son who was vegetarian. The whole family enjoyed it. Unfortunately have lost the recipe and he is no longer a vegetarian!

[ummmm]

That sounds nice.

I made the OH some veggie spaghetti recently. He didn't realise there was no meat in it.

[ToraToraTora]

he was being kind.

[Atheist]

If they are cooking, they usually give us a mushroom pie or nut Wellington (which we would normally provide). If we are cooking for them, then our oven would only permit something small like a bit of turkey (not a whole bird). Apart from the centrepiece, we all love roast spuds, sprouts, stuffing, roast onions, parsnips and carrots, and lashings of bisto vegetable gravy.

[ummmm]

No he wasn't, TTT.

[ToraToraTora]

right oh!

[Cloverjo]

My son and his wife are ‘vegans’. I’m buying a nut roast for them. They can decide if they want to eat the roast potatoes cooked in goose fat. (They eat bacon sometimes, hence my not worrying too much about the animal fat.)

[ToraToraTora]

so they are part time vegans?

[ToraToraTora]

so am i actually, in between eating animal products I am vegan too!

[drmorgans]

Can you be vegan part-time?

[Cloverjo]

Me too TTT :D

[ummmm]

Obviously you know him better than I do, TTT, so who am I to argue with you about what he eats!

Veggie food can be lovely. We ordered a veggie curry last week and it was gorgeous.

[ummmm]

Couldn't give up cheese though, or milk, or eggs.

[Patsy33]

My eldest daughter very rarely eats meat. She usually asks for a nut roast if she comes to ours for Xmas. She is going away for dinner this year, with husband and little daughter.

[pastafreak]

I often wonder...what do veggies...or more specifically vegans...eat if they are allergic to nuts, and so many people serve nut roasts?

[ummmm]

Nothing with nuts :-)

What makes me laugh, like one of my friends, are veggies who don't really like veg and salad. They end up living on fake meat and veggie pasties....and get fat.

[jourdain2]

Meat for us.

[Vagus]

Did you read the question jourdain??

[calmck]

Half the family is and half is not. Any nut roast, quorn “chicken roast” Linda Macartney rosemary and thyme sausages sprouts with chestnut and veggie bacon crumbs. Vegetarian gravy granules add some red martini for flavour